The Ancestry Insider: The New and Improved Find A Grave Shown at #RootsT...: At RootsTech 2017 Peter Drinkwater showed off a late-alpha prototype for a new Find A Grave website. Fearing the worst, he was quite happy ...
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Now might be a good time to go into your "Contributor Tools" and download your data.:
"Download Your Data"
"Download Your Data"
"You can download your records for a cemetery or virtual cemetery by choosing it from the list below. The data will download as a tab-delimited Excel file. This format can be imported into a variety of programs. Add cemeteries to your My Cemeteries list to see them listed here."
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Just a tip: I use a Windows 7 64bit desk top computer, and when I downloaded a cemetery file it saved it to a .txt format instead of an Excel format. I changed the .txt to a .xls and the file then opened up in Excel for me. I could also re-save the .xls into a .xlsx file. I still have Office 2007 on my computer. So, if your downloaded cemeteries default to .txt this would be a workaround for you.
