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 Fred Turner taught this class. Please see him for a copy of the handout.
-Turner said that ''Find A Grave'' was purchased by ''Ancestry''. It is a free service for viewing purposes. If you want to add or change something, you have to set up a free account. You will then get a contributor number. You can add flowers and request a headstone photo.
+''Find A Grave'' is a service that lists information about people based on their tombstone/headstone information. ''Find A Grave'' was purchased by ''Ancestry'' and is completely free for viewing purposes. However, if you want to add or change something, you will have to register for a free account. You will then be assigned a contributor number which also allows you to add flowers, a memory, or request a headstone photo.
-''Find A Grave'' is one of the largest services out there and you get more for free. ''Billion Graves'' is a similar service, but it doesn't have as many free things.
+''Find A Grave'' is one of the largest services out there, and you get more for free. ''Billion Graves'' is a similar service, but it doesn't have as many free things.
-A memorial headstone is not a burial headstone. For example, his ancestor Luther Hatfield is actually buried in Tennessee, but most folks knew him in Virginia, so he has a memorial headstone in a Virginia cemetery.
+Every entry in ''Find A Grave'' has a unique memorial ID. Note that a memorial headstone is not a burial headstone. For example, Turner's ancestor Luther Hatfield is actually buried in Tennessee, but most folks knew him in Virginia, so he has a memorial headstone in a Virginia cemetery.
-Every entry in ''Find A Grave'' has a unique memorial ID.
+If you are ever taking photographs for inclusion on ''Find A Grave'', please take a brush with you to brush the dirt out of the engraved text, take some clippers to clip any overgrown vegetation, and don't let your shadow fall on the stone or anything else otherwise detract from the proper lighting of your image.
-More on this later.
+Turner said that he likes to include information that he finds on ''Find A Grave'' in an individual's entry on ''FamilySearch''. Just note that the source was from ''Find A Grave''. If you are working in ''Ancestry'', on the right side of an entry will be a link to add records from other ''Ancestry'' sites, like ''Find A Grave''.
+If he finds discrepancies between ''FamilySearch'' and ''Find A Grave'', he notes that in the "Other" section of ''FamilySearch''.
+Turner says you can use ''Find A Grave'' to help you find hints on finding more relatives. For example, in ''Find A Grave'', look for others with the same last name in the same cemetery, county, state, etc.
+Contributors to an individual's ''Find A Grave'' page are usually not related to you. However, a direct relative can be set up as a manager of a page. This privilege expires within a year of the individual's death.
+Turner recommends you examine every piece of information on an individual in ''Find A Grave''. Obituaries may list children and spouses that you may not have been aware of. Obituaries frequently list burial dates as a day of the week, so to get the actual date, use a day-of-the-week calculator, such as [https://www.dayoftheweek.org/ dayoftheweek.org].
+Also pay attention to people who have left flowers. Turner found a granddaughter and a great grandniece who had both left flowers on a relative's ''Find A Grave'' entry.
+Lastly, be aware that symbols and icons carved on headstones or placed on a stick next to a headstone may be meaningful to your family history research on an individual. This [https://familytreemagazine.com/cemeteries/hidden-meanings-gravestone-symbols/ website] is an example of many websites you can find that will explain the meaning of these symbols. The handout for Turner's next class has links to more websites that explain symbols.
 === How to Use ''Find a Grave'' Advanced (September 28) ===
 [[Media:EdgewoodFHC AdvFindAGraveHandout.pdf|Handout]]
-Fred Turner continued his class on ''Find A Grave'' with some more advanced topics. More on this later.
+Fred Turner continued his class on ''Find A Grave'' with some more advanced topics. He told a story about someone who was a prisoner at a Confederate POW camp. This person noticed that some prisoners were getting fed better than the rest of the prisoners. When he mentioned this to someone, this guy took him aside and said, "We don't care who you fought for--Masons take care of Masons." So finding a masonic symbol on someone's headstone is another piece of information that should be noted in your ''FamilySearch'' entry on an individual.
+Finding an unusual headstone is something worthy of mention in an individual's ''FamilySearch'' entry. Turner says to check all the sources mentioned in Find A Grave as this can lead to more information to put into FamilySearch. Be sure to cite these sources.
+The handout for this class has many links to interesting examples in ''Find A Grave'' as well as links explaining many different symbols.
 === How to Use Land Records in Family History Research (October 26) ===
 [[Media:EdgewoodFHC LandRecordsSlides.pdf|Slides]]    [[Media:EdgewoodFHC LandRecordsNotes.pdf|Slides with Notes]]
-Bill Barrett presented this class. His slides and notes will convey most everything that was presented in this class. However, I will add more on this later.
+Bill Barrett presented this class. His slides and notes will convey most everything that was presented in this class. Below are some of the highlights.
+Land records are so important because many places kept these records before they kept vital records. Land records were important because they were used for tax revenues.
+Barrett's class covered the following five types of records:
+# Land Deeds. Contain heirs, other info
+# Land Grants and Patents
+# Mortgages. Deed books; also alphabetical index
+# Tax Records (Property). Shows inheritance
+# Probate Records.
+Some tips to remember:
+* County boundaries can change, so look around surrounding counties.
+* Not all deeds were recorded promptly, so look several years after.
 ==Class notes for years prior to 2022==