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This is Family History Month, a good time to memorialize our ancestors' final resting places and improve their memorial pages...
One trick: Have you ever noticed the flowers or flags left at the bottom of a memorial page?
Flowers as cousin bait
Above is a flower with a brief message that I left on one ancestor's memorial page, identifying how I'm related to this man. Free cousin bait for anyone who looks at the bottom of that page!
If you notice a flower or flag on a memorial page of your ancestor, read the message and click to see who left it. Maybe a relative left that flower.If you click on M Wood as the source of the flower shown at top, you'll see my user profile page on Find a Grave. Similarly, if you click on W. Wood as the source of the flag posted at bottom of a memorial page for my husband's distant cousin, you'll be taken to my user profile page (since I left it in his name).
Similarly, if I find the memorial of an ancestor on Find a Grave, I look to see who's left a flower and click on the source.
This trick has worked for me, putting me in touch with relatives and other people researching my ancestors. Maybe it will work for you? Try it during Family History Month!
This trick and others are explained in my new presentation, "Genealogical Clues and Cousin Bait on Find a Grave."
-- My blog post for the October Genealogy Blog Party!
I will have to try this; I haven't hooked any new cousins in a while!
ReplyDeleteI once found an obituary for an ancestor who had recently died so I left a message on the online guest book. I didn’t necessarily do it as cousin bait but it work out that way.
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