is there a way/place to enter date/place of burial? [closed]

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is there a way/place to enter date/place of burial?
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in WikiTree Help by Phil Howard G2G6 (6.1k points)
closed by Phil Howard
In the biography.  (There is not a data field for burial, nor for baptism/christening -- and from all I have read -- there won't be.)
i read what looks like an old blog posting about this, explaining why not.  one issue is that this could result in a multitude of specialized fields (if burial is justified then ... i could make up stuff like "enrolled in college" or "got a ham radio license".  i don't think devs want to be creating forms for everything).  Keep It Simple S....d (KISS).  so i had the thought, why not just one such field for everything?  but that's pretty much what you can already do.  the one thing you probably can't do is define GED records to add output facts like burial.  maybe there is a way or a tag can be added for it.

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Phil,

True that there are not fields for burials as Melanie has said, however you can pretty easily add the source from Find a Grave and link to it in the biography, adding the cemetery name if you like. I added the source for you as I didn't know if you were familiar with "sourcing" from the Find A Grave website. Just click on the link I added which will take you to the webpage, click view source (next to Memorial ID, left click in the grey box (which is the source info) then copy and paste into the edit field. Also consider changing her [current last name] to Howard, as Stout was her surname. This will be consistent with Wikitree naming conventions. Good sourcing on your part!

by Mark Hough G2G6 Mach 2 (28.9k points)
selected by David Hughey

WikiTree has a template for Find a Grave citations.  It fits within the offered citation from Find a Grave, and gives a direct link to the memorial.  Do as described above, but remove the link from the first part, then add the template to the memorial number, and place the lot between ref tags if you are using inline/attaching the source to the stated fact :

<ref>Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 03 May 2020), memorial page for Lilly May Stout Howard (20 May 1865–14 Mar 1918), {{FindAGrave|14527995}}, citing Cameron Cemetery, Cameron, Marshall County, West Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Cheryl Behrend (contributor 39733792) . </ref>

Melanie,

You are right about the formatting. Phil (and myself) should really be following the proper Wikitree template according to the example you gave so that the Biography links with the sources correctly (as in the example you gave). And you are right about removing the first web reference as it only links to the Find A Grave home mage, which is redundant. Thanks, Stay healthy

Mark

It took me a while to get that one "right".  (I used to forget to remove the link.cheeky)

Something else to remember now is .. Find a Grave has changed the capitalisation of their name within that citation, so WE need to make sure it is FindAGrave, not FindaGrave, before the pipe | character, so the template {{this thing}} doesn't throw an error.

is the spacing "FindAGrave" or "Find A Grave"?  or can it be either way?
what about the certificate of death citation where i obtained the hospital and the cause of her death (someone asked me if she was affected by the 1918 pandemic)?

I believe the spacing for the template is FindAGrave, otherwise it generates an error.

Information from the death certificate should go in the biography, then you can add a notation of where the certificate was obtained between <ref>Death certificate issued by, on date, in the possession of (name).</ref>* tags at the end of the transcription.

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* A very rough example.

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If all you have is the burial and not the death (eg church records only in England from 1837 backwards), you can put it in the deathdate field and click on 'before'.  This means that he died before that date (he must have died before he was buried!) Not totally satisfactory, I know, but it's what we have at the moment (ie no burial fields)
by Ros Haywood G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)
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I usually add a "burial" section to my biography and a short sentence of when and where the burial took place.  For those in which I know where they are buried, I will follow that with an incline citation to Find a Grave.

See this profile for an example: Buch-363

by Tommy Buch G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)

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