Cleveland

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I try to focus on quality over quantity. Not much help to a family if an entry has no information for them to be able to find anyone. Most of my edits are additions to current entries for this reason. I take pride in well under 10% of my managed memorials having missing birthdates or missing supplemental information and I'm continously working to further shrink that number.

Not interested in numbers per the above, so if you want to manage any grave I have I'll gladly transfer it over.

Currently I'm sweeping through the cemeteries under the Diocese of Cleveland (and by that I mean Calvary as that's both the largest and in the worst shape progress wise here) and adding Sections and Lots, and GPS (very nice that the Diocese provides that). Calvary and Holy Cross in particular are huge, makes it infinitely easier to "Find A Grave".

Often times the section alone gives great insight as to the burial if there's no photo. As an example in Calvary, 105 is almost exclusively babies, 2 is a small religious section, 90 is 2-grave adult plots (usually a husband-wife burial), and so on.

There's also a surprising amount of reburials to Calvary that aren't properly marked as such on the clecem database; if a whole family has a death date of 1928 and you're struggling to find proof, that's because the death date isn't 1928, that's the reburial date. Unfortunately correctly finding the real information is way tougher to figure out.

Also, and this should go without saying, don't add graves of the living. I've seen a concerning number of those lately. Per this I'm also going through the above two cemeteries and "fixing" any unknown death dates (either adding them, flagging them for removal as living, or figuring out what to even do with them if there's no burial noted there at all)

I try to focus on quality over quantity. Not much help to a family if an entry has no information for them to be able to find anyone. Most of my edits are additions to current entries for this reason. I take pride in well under 10% of my managed memorials having missing birthdates or missing supplemental information and I'm continously working to further shrink that number.

Not interested in numbers per the above, so if you want to manage any grave I have I'll gladly transfer it over.

Currently I'm sweeping through the cemeteries under the Diocese of Cleveland (and by that I mean Calvary as that's both the largest and in the worst shape progress wise here) and adding Sections and Lots, and GPS (very nice that the Diocese provides that). Calvary and Holy Cross in particular are huge, makes it infinitely easier to "Find A Grave".

Often times the section alone gives great insight as to the burial if there's no photo. As an example in Calvary, 105 is almost exclusively babies, 2 is a small religious section, 90 is 2-grave adult plots (usually a husband-wife burial), and so on.

There's also a surprising amount of reburials to Calvary that aren't properly marked as such on the clecem database; if a whole family has a death date of 1928 and you're struggling to find proof, that's because the death date isn't 1928, that's the reburial date. Unfortunately correctly finding the real information is way tougher to figure out.

Also, and this should go without saying, don't add graves of the living. I've seen a concerning number of those lately. Per this I'm also going through the above two cemeteries and "fixing" any unknown death dates (either adding them, flagging them for removal as living, or figuring out what to even do with them if there's no burial noted there at all)

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