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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- How Many Find A Grave Entries?

   It's  Saturday Night  -  time for more  Genealogy Fun!   Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to: 1)  How many entries are there on  Find A Grave  for your exact current surname, and the birth surnames of your grandparents?  What about your spouse's grandparents birth surnames? Here's mine: I use Find a Grave a lot and it is the source with the most entries in my genealogy database software, RootsMagic. Of the surnames I have, I would guess that Johnston will have the most.  Below are the match numbers for surnames I’m researching, listed in alphabetical order. See if I am right. Coor : 1,761 matches. Davey : 19,448 matches. Gleeson : 9,225 matches. I didn’t expect that many for that spelling variation. Hork: 2,781 matching records. Scrolling through some of them, I see the ones who are in my family, others that seem to be buried in Catholic cemeteries, and others buried in Jewish cemeteri...