I was working on Find A Grave requests for the Woodlawn Cemetery in Nashua, New Hampshire that had problems. There was a record of where the person was buried, but there was no marker. So I went out, figured out where the person was buried, and snapped a photo. Then I ran into a Memorial Manager who didn’t want photos of unmarked graves on his memorials.
This lead me to ask the members of a genealogy Facebook page if they would like to see a picture of the area where their family member was buried even if there was no marker. It wasn’t a scientific survey but 24 of the 26 individuals who commented wanted the photo, one was a no, and one did not answer the question. I’d love to hear what you think in the comments below.
Back to the Memorial Manager. He goes beyond the gravestone information and finds whatever genealogy information he can. I found some information that clarified a question he had about the parents of Infant Wood, and I found according to FamilySearch, Infant Wood is my 6th cousin four times removed.
But according to FamilySearch, I’m related to everyone. FamilySearch is a World Tree and anyone can come along and post anything they want so there are a lot of mistakes being made. Also, be very careful about the genealogical information at Find A Grave. Again it is being posted by individuals with varying skill levels and there are a multitude of errors. If it’s not on the stone, find out where the information came from.
I wouldn’t bet money on the fact that Infant Wood is my cousin, but it made me wonder how many of the unmarked graves I’d found were my family. Turns out according to FamilySearch twenty of the twenty-five.
So since I felt I couldn’t post the photos on Find A Grave, I’d put them on YouTube and while I was at it, I’d tell their stories. This is where it began, with the stone of Infant Wood.
You can view the video at
And the script with the sources is attached here.