[DaleHCook]

Rod -

I am not. The vast majority of the photos on Find-A-Grave are excerable - many are impossible to read. Scholarly, archive-quality photos are monochrome and sunlit at a narrow range of angles. Those standards provide maximum detail of the stone's inscription and decorations.

Here is the Find-A-Grave photo of an ancestor's gravestone:

[Image: https://mathomhouseradio.net/temp/4fag.jpg]

Can you read the inscription?

Here is an archival quality photo of the same gravestone. As you can see it is far superior to the Find-A-Grave photo:

[Image: https://mathomhouseradio.net/temp/4gs1.jpg]