Question

How do you create a cemetery category and add your ancestors to it?

Answer 1

 

Here's what's been decided ...

 

We don't categorize people by cemetery. We categorize people by location, and we create free-space profiles for cemeteries, which are then categorized by location as well.

 

For example, let's say a family member is buried in Bethel Cemetery, Hymera, Sullivan County, Indiana, and they also lived in the town of Hymera.

 

Step #1.) Put this in the bio/text section of their person profile:

[[Category:Hymera, Indiana]]

 

Step #2.) Click here to create a free-space profile and name it "Bethel Cemetery, Hymera, Indiana". (The link is also in your toolbar. It's named "New Thing" and under "Add".)

 

Step #3.) Put this in the text section of the new cemetery free-space profile you created:

[[Category:Hymera, Indiana]]

[[Category:Indiana Cemeteries]]

 

Step #4.) Put something like this in the bio/text section of the person profile:

Joe is buried at [[Space:Bethel Cemetery, Hymera, Indiana|Bethel Cemetery]].

 

Step #5.) Add to the text of the cemetery profile and include something like this:

== Burials ==

* [[Example-5|Joe Example]]

 

Here's a nice example of a cemetery profile created by Brian Chelton: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Osage_Cemetery%2C_Osage%2C_Iowa

 

If all this interests you, please add yourself to http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Categorization.

 

Comments

I have started one for my family [[http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Pihama_Cemetery%2C_Taranaki%2C_New_Zealand|Pihama Cemetery]]. I hope i've done it all right.

My grandmother is buried there, so i've linked her up [[Holmes-3148|Gwen]].

However, i have a picture of her gravestone, which i wanted to link to the space so it shows under the page. however if i go into the gravestone photo, and link it to Space:Pihama_Cemetery%2C_Taranaki%2C_New_Zealand it says that's not right. so how can i attach this space in this photo? i know how to do it for people, but this odesn't seem to work!

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Hello, Why can't we add people to cemeteries? I would like lists of who is buried in each cemetery I add.