To include a web link to a Find-A-Grave memorial, I have been using Edit Person, Fact, WebTags, Name: Find-A-Grave Memorial, URL
But wonder if there is a better way for creating web tags for Find-A-Grave URLs?
I have a custom fact for Find-a-grave. I also have a Custom Find-a-grave Source/Citation that I use that meets EE standard. I then link the webtags to the citation link for the fact. I also use a seperate Burial fact. Some of the info overlaps between two.
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If you weren’t already aware, you can use just the Find a Grave memorial ID in the URL, i.e., without the person’s name. E.g.:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149162738/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149162738/thomas-marshall-gilkison
… both lead to the same individual.
If you’ve stored the memorial ID in its own field (e.g., “[MemorialID]”) you could include
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/[MemorialID]
in a sentence template.
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Dear Kevin & Brian,
Thank you for your ideas and suggestions. I like them both and will try them out, but wonder if either/ both get published in any or all outputs from RM?
I can’t speak to Kevin’s template, but I’ve been using the EE-FindAGrave template from the User Source Templates page, with a few tweaks (I also record the FindAGrave creator’s ID # in the citation)
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Thank you Brian for that link!
I need to learn how to better use web tags (since I’m not using them at all).
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I am not sure how they feed to other things outside of RM – but they can be used for people. places, and citations
Kevin
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Webtags are handy to hop back to the original item and can be pasted into a source or citation URL field (FTM) or just added to comments or notes. Over time many tags fail to work so it pays to have the found item saved as a PDF/media on your computer.
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How did you create the MemorialID field? Can you use it in WebTags on the Person record?
I get this: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/[MemorialID] when I click the link.
If you want a webtag you will need to actually replace [MemorialID] with the FaG memorial number. The post above is talking about sentence templates for facts which would have access to the information entered into the fact. Webtags do not have that option.
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