Find A Grave
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Find A Grave is a website founded in 1995 by Jim Tipton. He could not find an existing site that catered to his hobby of visiting the graves of famous people and in the beginning the site only listed celebrities, be they famous or infamous.
Over time as thousands of visitors wished to use the template to list others of equal personal, if not universal importance the site was expanded to include all persons deceased or with pre-need burial sites marked and in place.
There are two sides the "famous" and the "non-famous" lisitngs with over 8.5 million unique grave records in 2005. Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour. The site simply wouldn't exist without the 200,000+ contributors.
The Find A Grave Forums provide a place where the contibutors can get answers not only from administrators but fellow contributors. There are also lists where one can post changes that need to be made on famous listings that require an administrator. The Lounge provides a place for social networking.
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- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Find_A_Grave" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_A_Grave, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
