Findagrave.com has announced that the web site soon
will change. Some changes are cosmetic, while others are
functional. A map feature has been added.
The home page, formerly just a list of over thirty choices, will
become a photograph with a few menu selections across the
top. That page will be dominated by the search panel, which
will function largely as it has in the past and with the same
options for every search box except those related to location.
The current search panel specifies location via pull-down lists
for country, state, and county. The new search panel offers
a single box for location, in which you are supposed to type the
name of a place. As you begin to type a city, county, state,
or country that box auto-fills with suggested place names which
you can select with a mouse click. Use the American English
equivalent of a country name; Germany works but Deutschland
doesn’t.
The new home page’s menu bar goes across the top of the
screen. Clicking CEMETERIES takes you to a page that lets
you hunt cemeteries in either of two ways. Near the top left
of the page is a search box where you can type a cemetery
name. This auto-fill box works as above. When you
select a name, you see a hit list of cemeteries with that
name. Each entry on the hit list displays some facts about
that cemetery, and a link to its information page. That page
contains a search box that you can use to hunt for a person’s
name.
Instead of using that cemetery-name search box, you can use the
cemetery-place search box to its right. Clicking a place
name produces a map of cemeteries near that place. You can
zoom the map in or out, and can pan it in any direction. (If
the map doesn’t display any marker pins, zoom in.) After a
name is in that search box, clicking Search leads to a hit list of
cemeteries near that place. Use this hit list the same way
you use the other cemetery search box.
To see and experiment with all the planned changes, go to
https://findagrave.com/ and then click preview now near the top
center of the screen.
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