Follow Friday -- Keeping up with FindAGrave Errors

The other day I received an email from a 5th cousin stating that I spelled the name of a cemetery wrong, I had Piegeon Hill instead of Pigeon.  Upon closer inspection, I saw that it indeed was listed as Piegeon.  Horrors, but I didn't spell it that way. The person who initiated the site in Missisquoi Co., Quebec, Canada spelled it wrong. There was no contact name, or email, so I wrote to http://www.findagrave.com/ and explained the situation.


Then hours later, I received a wonderful email, in which the person wrote, "Hello Barbara, I'm so happy that I found your link while I viewing the Cross family at Piegeon Hill Cemetery." Both of the emails came within a 24-hour period. One error travels fast!


I never heard back from the people at FindAGrave, but did check back on the Pigeon Hill Cemetery site and saw that it was corrected.


Several hours later, while working on a completely different cemetery, I discovered that the same Horace Adams is listed in two cemeteries in Batavia, Genesee Co., New York.  I wrote the administrator, but haven't heard anything yet (perhaps on vacation).


These errors are minor, they probably only affect me.  But, I do want things to be correct.  FindAGrave is a fabulous organization, no question about that. Just think 48 million records for free, and most with photos.  I am not complaining, just following them.