My maternal grandmother had 10 siblings, and my paternal grandmother had 8 siblings. Most of these people married, so I'm a niece (and great-niece) by marriage as well. That's a lot of aunts, uncles, great aunts, and great uncles.
I've been honoring their memory by not only adding them to my family trees but also creating or improving memorial pages on Find a Grave. This includes linking my ancestors' memorial pages to the pages of their parents, siblings, and children.
When I add a new memorial page, Find a Grave asks whether I'm a close relative. I answer yes and then click the box to reflect the kind of relationship. As shown directly above, the "niece/nephew" box also includes an option for "great-niece/great-nephew."
For the first time yesterday, I discovered that Find a Grave limits how many people a single user can claim in a niece or nephew relationship. At top of this post, you can see the notice displayed on Find a Grave when I attempted to have my niece relationship displayed on the memorial page of an uncle who died in the 1980s--someone I'd known and hugged.
Find a Grave's explanation is:
We limit the number of memorials you can manage within each relationship type to help prevent abuse.
There is an option to appeal to the support center...which I may do at some point. For now, at least I'm the manager of these memorial pages and can add bite-sized bios, photos, etc.
A possible work-around - create another FindAGrave account.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this good idea!
DeleteNo, that is NOT a good idea because Find A Grave only allows one account per person. If they find out you have 2 accounts, the accounts will be merged. AND if you do it to many times, your account will become "Record Not Available" (in other words, they remove your account and you are no longer welcome on the site).
DeleteIn the end, I didn't open any other accounts, and thank you for your comment!
DeleteI bet if you can show them you really do have all these aunts and uncles, they will grant you a waiver. I understand their concern!
ReplyDeleteI had a similar experience. I have been adding my 40+ years of family history to findagrave. It's a full-time job. I never cared if my relationship to the person was acknowledged on findagrave, however, since they updated to include, I added great niece where applicable. I rec'd a denial the other day and was told I was abusive to this designation that I had reached a limit of 30+. It shocked me and set me back. My great grandfather, had 19 children. Findagrave needs to use another word other than "abusive" which is such a negative connotation. Their rules state direct, in-law and adopted for family designation. I think they need to review as 30 doesn't even begin to cover my family niece relationships.
ReplyDeleteI had to regroup and remember what I was working so hard to do which is to remember those who had come before me for future generations. Findagrave is having growing pains and I hope they figure out to to promote positivity within their web site which is such a wonderful genealogy tool for connecting families. Shirley
I also have the same problem with the number of relations I can add to the memorials. I have 13 on the my Moms side and 8 on the Dads. That is alot of aunts, uncles, nieces/nephews, cousins . I think that great aunts, great great aunts/uncles as well as first cousin 2 x removed should be added. Back in the day they had very large families and not like today when we have 1 or 2 children. The reach for family connections needs to be broaden greatly with no limits as to the number you try to report.
ReplyDeleteI find that duplicates are being made and unless you find them it is clogging up the memorials greatly. Also 1 person who I will not name is adding a memorial and headstone photo even though I have already added it. Sometimes I do not know the cemetery as I dont live in the province. If I am related then I am related. Hope it changes.