Integrating the Derivative

I came across the website Find A Grave when I was doing some research couple days ago.  It’s a neat idea.  Users can add entries in the cemeteries and then upload pictures or write short stories to go along with them.  I’ve been entering in some of my own research over the past few days.

Of course, there’s no fact-checking and you can’t edit other peoples’ entries so errors can creep in.   There’s also the fact that people like to enter in more information than what’s on the headstone.  Of the entries I’ve seen that have done that, the vast majority didn’t cite where the information comes from.  In my opinion, that’s a serious problem.  There’s enough misinformation floating around on the internet already concerning family trees.

In other news, Mabel Klobnak wrote back to me and sent me another short book on the Jones family.  I don’t have anything more yet on Asa Jones’ ancestors but she said she’d mail me some more stuff about the family soon.