Find a Grave Question

By Anonymous on Sun, 04/27/2014 - 15:57

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I am trying to cite Find A Grave for the following grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28456886 

Where I run into confusion is with the photo and site attribution. The site was created by "EL" which when one follows up to get a name, this is what is provided:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=46539242 It seems to infer that EL may also have been a photographer to some extent. Their is no further way to identify this person other than as "EL."

Next, I have photos added, but not necessarily taken by, two different people, one named and easy to provide attribution for( see http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&GRid=28456886&MRid=47033941&0) but the other, HAR37x (see http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&GRid=28456886&MRid=47671892&), infers that he is the photographer, but does not provide his name, only the "HAR37x" as a moniker. Is it appropriate to use such an identifier as the photographer? Do I need to write to him and ask for details before creating the citation? Or would the following be sufficient? 

Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com: accessed 26 April 2014/), memorial page for Ann Kitterman Dean (1830 - 1865), Find A Grave Memorial no. 28456886, created by EL, citing Mount Bloom Cemetery, Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois; the accompanying photographs contributed by Virginia Shoemaker Perry and HAR37x. 

Thanks for any direction on this?

 

 

 

 

 

Submitted byEEon Sun, 04/27/2014 - 18:54

BethM, you've done an excellent job of thinking through the issues and covering the essentials. The only tweaks we might make would be to put "EL" and "HAR37x" in quotation marks to make it clear that this is exactly how the identities appear at the site.