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 ==== Searching Tips  ====
-When searching for a name and burial location, be sure to search any of these sites by cemetery, and overall. There are times when you may have information that leads you to believe that a burial took place at one location, when in fact it may have occurred elsewhere nearby, often very close by. Sometimes several cemeteries will be next to each other, or within a block or two of all that are rather close by, or be across the road from each other. Many times this will be obvious, but at times it is not.
+When searching for a name and burial location, be sure to search any of these sites by cemetery, and overall. There are times when you may have information that leads you to believe that a burial took place at one location, when in fact it may have occurred elsewhere nearby, often very close by. Sometimes several cemeteries will be next to each other or be across the road from each other. Also sometimes two or more cemeteries will combine together under a single name. Many times this will be obvious, but at times it is not.
-Also as with any genealogical search, be sure to search for variant spellings, or if for an adult woman, the married surname. Most cemeteries have a few infant burials, which can often only have the surname of the infant that dieed, especially if it took place within a couple days of the birth.
+Also as with any genealogical search for a particular person, be sure to search for variant spellings, or if for an adult woman, the married surname. Most cemeteries have a few infant burials, which can often only have the surname of the infant that dieed, especially if it took place within a couple days of the birth.
-Look in most locality articles on this wiki, as many have links, either to a page or pages, on or for, one or more of the sites below, and/or to other sites, that have data for one or more cemeteries in the given locality. Often there are several sites outside of those below that have cemetery data for the cemetery you may be looking for.
+On this wiki, look in the place where the cemetery is located, as many have links containing data for the local cemeteries. Check with several websites, because several may have data for the cemetery you are looking for.
 ==== Individual Cemetery Websites  ====
-Some cemeteries will maintain a website which will often list operating hours, and some will post burial lists online on those sites. Be sure to see if the cemetery you want to find a burial in has a website, often this can be found via a search engine.&nbsp; Some search engines show the location of the cemetery in the results, which can be helpful in verifying if you have the right cemetery or not. &nbsp; <br>
+Some cemeteries will maintain a website which will often list operating hours, and some will post burial lists online for those sites.&nbsp;Type the cemetery name in a search engine&nbsp;to see if the cemetery you want to find has a website.&nbsp; Some search engines show the location of the cemetery in the results, which can be helpful in verifying if you have the right cemetery or not. &nbsp;&nbsp;
 ==== Find A Grave  ====
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 [http://www.billiongraves.com BillionGraves] is a newer site that allows anyone to download an app for their iPhone or Android device (for Android users, the website will indicate which Android devices do NOT work with their app, often this can depend on either the wireless carrier or the device, occasionally both), then go out to a cemetery and take pictures of the headstones. The app tags the photos with the GPS location, thus it effectively maps the cemetery, which makes it easy to find the location on the web or on the smartphone app. This site is very new, so coverage is not to the level of Find A Grave or Interment.net, but thousands of headstones are photographed and uploaded every week to the site.&nbsp;
 One feature of this site is that one can search the database by cemetery, or search the entire site overall for a name.&nbsp; This is easily done because of the GPS features offered by the smartphone app used for taking pictures of the headstones.
 ==== Names in Stone  ====
-[http://www.namesinstone.com Names in Stone] is another site that uses GPS technology to map cemeteries. An additional feature is that the site partners with cemeteries to add new headstone information to the site on a regular basis since often a cemetery is still having burials take place. There are other mapping features on the site too.
+[http://www.namesinstone.com Names in Stone] is another site that uses GPS technology to map cemeteries. An additional feature is that the site partners with cemeteries to add new headstone information to the site on a regular basis since often a cemetery is still having burials take place. There are other mapping features on the site too. One very nice feature is that the site shows a map of the cemetery showing where each burial is located within the cemetery.
 ==== Waymarking.com Worldwide Cemeteries  ====