Comments on: New tombstone feature at WorldVitalRecords.com to help locate burial locations of loved ones http://www.whitneyransom.com/new-tombstone-feature-at-worldvitalrecordscom-to-help-locate-burial-locations-of-loved-ones/ A few thoughts on life, teaching and learning, instructional design, and whatever else happens to be on my mind Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:32:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Jason Presley http://www.whitneyransom.com/new-tombstone-feature-at-worldvitalrecordscom-to-help-locate-burial-locations-of-loved-ones/#comment-5 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:19:51 +0000 http://www.whitneyransom.com/new-tombstone-feature-at-worldvitalrecordscom-to-help-locate-burial-locations-of-loved-ones/#comment-5 Something that might go along with this would be either approaching Jim Tipton over at Find A Grave about sharing his database of nearly 12 million graves (probably won't happen), or, since Findagrave submitters are able to download all of their own data from the site, offer a way for users to contribute their own Findagrave data to WorldVitalRecords. With a little creative data parsing, perhaps the SSDI information could be tied to the Findagrave information, giving users an actual burial location instead of just cemeteries near where a person died. And, if that level of user interaction ever comes about, it would be wonderful to be able to tag listings like that with information like newspapers where their obituary appeared. Something that might go along with this would be either approaching Jim Tipton over at Find A Grave about sharing his database of nearly 12 million graves (probably won’t happen), or, since Findagrave submitters are able to download all of their own data from the site, offer a way for users to contribute their own Findagrave data to WorldVitalRecords. With a little creative data parsing, perhaps the SSDI information could be tied to the Findagrave information, giving users an actual burial location instead of just cemeteries near where a person died.

And, if that level of user interaction ever comes about, it would be wonderful to be able to tag listings like that with information like newspapers where their obituary appeared.

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