A family contact introduced me to WikiTree in 2017, and I soon discovered FindAGrave and the possibilities of linking the two. I realised the open-ended potential of storing one's relatives' profiles on WikiTree rather than using personal trees on pay-sites. My existing tree on GenesReunited is now used for informal notes only, such as the status of profiles on other systems as well as Wikitree, what to rely on, etc. My wife had already amassed a huge collection of largely-copied profiles (errors and all) on Ancestry, and I am gradually working through these, and finding that WikiTree's GEDCompare utility is extremely useful for that. A parallel activity is grave lists for local churches, and also doing weekly 'Data Doctor' work, fixing poor-quality profiles on WikiTree, for posterity. See my work on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barrington-69 (yes that's my real name...) - click on 'contributions' for my edit log.

I will be happy to help anyone to get started on WikiTree - please contact me via the above link, clicking on "[send private message]", and please say if you found me via this bio. I am not so experienced on FindAGrave, and treat it mainly as photo storage for grave sites. I do not usually update relationship information there except for close family who may be buried nearby. I like to add What3Words addresses to photos - it's a brilliant way of directing someone to a 3-metre square pretty accurately, although I have found that some gadgets are not so good at GPS location and you have to check via the W3W online map that it really is pointing at the right square (which you can do afterwards of course).

A family contact introduced me to WikiTree in 2017, and I soon discovered FindAGrave and the possibilities of linking the two. I realised the open-ended potential of storing one's relatives' profiles on WikiTree rather than using personal trees on pay-sites. My existing tree on GenesReunited is now used for informal notes only, such as the status of profiles on other systems as well as Wikitree, what to rely on, etc. My wife had already amassed a huge collection of largely-copied profiles (errors and all) on Ancestry, and I am gradually working through these, and finding that WikiTree's GEDCompare utility is extremely useful for that. A parallel activity is grave lists for local churches, and also doing weekly 'Data Doctor' work, fixing poor-quality profiles on WikiTree, for posterity. See my work on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barrington-69 (yes that's my real name...) - click on 'contributions' for my edit log.

I will be happy to help anyone to get started on WikiTree - please contact me via the above link, clicking on "[send private message]", and please say if you found me via this bio. I am not so experienced on FindAGrave, and treat it mainly as photo storage for grave sites. I do not usually update relationship information there except for close family who may be buried nearby. I like to add What3Words addresses to photos - it's a brilliant way of directing someone to a 3-metre square pretty accurately, although I have found that some gadgets are not so good at GPS location and you have to check via the W3W online map that it really is pointing at the right square (which you can do afterwards of course).