better not put personal photos online(esp girl naked photos). Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Find A Grave continues its mission to provide a collaborative community where members can contribute memorials and record burial dispositions If you have any questions regarding this or any other matters pertaining to Find A Grave, please do not hesitate to contact senior administration directly at support@findgrave.com Sincerely, Find A Grave I told her I would not give her the death notice or pictures, she harassed me and it was done anyway without our knowledge. I want to RIP. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. It's that easy. Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. because if her friends/her classmates/classmates parents. My one complaint with Findagrave is that they apparently allow people to put up memorials when they have no idea where or if the person was buried. how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. I have contacted Find A Grave and even submitted a copy of my birth certificate and they have done nothing. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. In my case I created a memoral 4 my Grandmother and also a memorial for a favoured child who died in infancy. If you don't have cemetery burial information they shouldn't be put up. Weve updated the security on the site. They are supposed to transfer but don't. I assume this means that they can't transfer the memorial to family members, because you didn't mention that (Which was pretty much, the whole point of the complaint). Some of us are private people and just want to be left alone. There are many kind and helpful people on F/A/G. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. @, no one has to ask permission to photograph a headstone. Editor's Review: Find A Grave is a free resource for finding burial places and headstones around the world. It was founded in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident, Jim Tipton. A system error has occurred. Twice I have submitted a maiden name for a deceased relative and twice been declined - Unless a person trespasses on to a privately owned plot/cemetery that is NOT owned or operated by a non-profit or the county/state, we are not infringing on your privacy. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. They are more interested in grabbing a tombstone in hopes of getting brownie points. Within 5 miles of your location. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. people would mistaken that she had died. E arlier this year, a distraught parent posted on Complaints Board, a third-party review site, that they'd made a horrifying discovery: their six-year-old daughter's headstone had been photographed and posted on Find A Grave without their knowledge. Nuff said. Not everyone who provides this service (and yes it is a service maybe not to you NOW but to future generations who will be very happy someone like me gifted my time and love for family history to make sure their ancestor could be found.. definitely). I also discussed talking to attorney to see if I could get some type of restraining order to prohibit my grave site from appearing on ###. Get those cheap skates to pay you! But unlike FindAGrave you are in control and its you who decide on what data is included in the memorial. This is stealing/theft/vandalism. In many cases these ghouls comb local obits and reprint them on Find A Grave. internet is free to use. Some people do not want their family members in the site, and its not your God-given right as a volunteer to ignore that. Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. For me, THAT is worth all the complaining offered by a few families who are upset their loved one's photo is on **** or any other site. Sometimes if you ask nicely, someone will comply with your wishes. Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. He then served for four and a half. It was not put here for it to be a tug of war or a battleground everyone must follow the rules and regulations and not step on anyone's feet. And if we are being honest, in the moments of grief and loss no one wants to look like an *** by taking a photo at the funeral and the pain families struggle with for weeks, months and even years later prevent most families from ever doing it. This is very basic courtesy. I had been a member for several years. Historical Society. Their top contributors do not research people. The family moved to the Mohawk Community in Greene County when Tom was three years old because the Norris Dam took their farm. Get a life. Do you want your child forgotten? I would email the cemetery asking if they could please verify whether or not John Flint, birth date-death date, is indeed buried there. Sharon Haywood. I was wondering if they shut down. When I confronted this whale of a whale to relinquished ownership and return the memorial back to me I was banned. I use it to the best of my ability to help others. When posting pictures it is proper to cite the owner of the photograph. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. Solution: move the ad block below the flowers or thin it out so that it's not as intrusive - in fact, that's the solution for ALL of the ads on Find A Grave. My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. It's that simple. Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". FuryH, Gin, if Find A Grave has taken over management of your memorials, your account has been shut down by Find A Grave. I'm an amateur genealogist and I've heard of the unsavory practices of Find A Grave members, so I Another member of Find a Grave is holding my grandfather's memorial page hostage. Yes Virginia. Complaint Experience N/A Complaint Resolution Index (CRI) Membership Information They just would not listen. you regretted your parents and teachers who teach you every knowledge. You then control exactly what's on the memorial. There are spelling errors and incorrect info. It is both hurtful and embarrassing to family members. Plan to go early in the day, in case it takes you a while to find the exact location. I have been a member of Find-A-Grave for close to 9 months and submitted over a thousand photos and memorials that many people are grateful to find. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. Just so you know. Find A Grave is open to anyone creating a memorial for a deceased person with a known disposition. I've received over 100 thank you emails from people who were searching for a loved one and happened upon the memorial or the photo of the loved one or their headstone. Next disgusting is a point of view. If prehistoric or unmarked burials are encountered, stop work immediately and contact the THC's Archeology Division for advice at 512-463-6096, or archeology@thc.texas.gov. Unfortunately anonymity is not one of "Find A Grave's" strong points. Mormons believe u enter the after life based on "works" namely procreation, In life Mormons collect huge volumes of data. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. We have set your language to They will take a really long time to reply to you, but when they finally reply to your email, they will threaten to ignore you unless you tell them your relationship to that memorial (From my own experience), so make sure to state your relationship. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? Added almost 3000 memorials. Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. I don't love how Find A Grave is run and it irks me that much of the information on the site is really terribly inaccurate, but presented in a manner that makes many people take it as fact, and impossible to correct or contribute to with the territorial attitude that the managing of memorials seems to foster. A problem occurred. Find A Grave is eventually going to be sued and it will undoubtedly take down the site and their business. Really? Findagrave does not relinquish hold on a memorial when their representative is not reachable to contact. waste of taxpayer money. I am sorry that your loved one has passed. There was a find a grave worker in Bastrop County, Texas I made a photo request of one of my great great great uncle who was born in the 1800's this gentleman took his time to go and take that picture when it was uploaded on the website and I got a email that the pictures once there I was in tears and was so grateful because I do not live near the county.So will everyone please calm down and do not turn this into a savage match, because this website is a blessing to some of us maybe not all but there are some of us out here that appreciate this website and wish it to stay on the website. family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. He died on 16 Nov 1620 aboard the Mayflower, a fact which you can easily validate with a Bing search. And, if so, where. We are not associated with the cemetery and don't have any information beyond what the community has added. Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. No. Take William Butten's find-a-grave memorial. I can google my name and find every city I've lived in, and all the way back to 1971 when I fell off a high diving board because its in the local newspaper. aged 43, married I had my fathers memorial, my grandfathers, my grandmother, my great grand parents stolen from my control by someone who isn't related. all people have their own rights or privacy even if they die. cemeteries found in Pimpama, Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. All I can add is just be respectful, if someone asks you to transfer a family member or asks you to take something down, I would go ahead and do it. Find a Grave is connected to Ancestry. I do it because it helps many people to feel closer to a loved one. Complaining usually happens in the wake of a negative. This is not precious. Findagrave is gross and obscene. So I am very sorry for your loss, as I still have not gotten over mine, fortunately for me, I now have a nine year old granddaughter from my However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. Man it's their photo not your photo. I never heard back so it's still there. Desired outcome: Open your mind, open your heart a bit, have some respect for fellow Users and please utilize other websites if you don't like a specific one. Stealing ppl headstone on your camera and put online on your own findagrave page, is not even hard work, it's vandalism, Reading sharon haywood post i just wanna laugh at her. And Nothing was ever done. If you find a memorial for someone you are related to within four generations and would like to manage that memorial, you can request to have that memorial transferred to you. But the practice of find a grave to "award" people for creating memorials has become a disgusting practice whereas in order to get the numbers they lose all sense of humanity and compassion. I'd like to say that this website is in fact, not a blessing. They play upon emotion. They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. I mean, it's a "public" cemetery, not one in private family hands and as mentioned in a earlier post, when you die the privacy is gone, period. Did you include a link to your profile or your member number? But what they did do is give control to someone who claims to be related through my third great grandfathers brother. MANY people are SEARCHING for their relatives, and they can not afford to fly to every cemetery in AmericaThank God people CARE ENOUGH to go to the cemeteries and take pictures, and post them on the ONLY FREE SITE of it's kind, find a grave! However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. The site stores over 120 million grave records, providing plenty of material. Consider it a blessing. All that info is gone now! son. If they deny, I would then forward the email to support@findagrave.com, to request an immediate release of ownership of memorial, from current owner to you. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. ----- I can't tell you how many old cemeteries I've documented that were in such total disrepair and vandalism that you couldn't read the stones even after you put them back together. Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. Find A Grave should monitor this kind of behavior, and if those people refuse to follow the rules, then they should be banned. listed divorce dates, ex spouses names and material of a more private nature our family did not want to share with the world. Ancestry provides a myriad of beneficial services; Find A Grave is yet another website providing beneficial information. Then you are suspended. If you want to create a memorial for a loved one and be free of Find A Grave ghouls go to "Forever Missed." The dead could care less what u do. There is a problem with your email/password. Find a Grave - Online Search. When I protested FindAGrave blocked my isp and booted me out. Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. In memory of your daughter, why don't you start a family tree of your own, for your relatives and descendants to enjoy. The info on him was compiled by several members, and info from members of the Montgomery county Md. Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. Many memorials are created with information about survivors. Sure, sure if you're anal enough to enjoy all that cataloging and picture takin, etc then fine, but your getting screwed and smiling about it Might want to learn some self respect. Wowmost of you really need to get a life. Your second argument of unknown dispositions do not make sense, especially in the cases of my and Eddie Jones' Reviews. The answer is NO and she's not going to respond to emails. This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. Choose a topic below to begin. Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. this is quite/very serious. if you harass the creatoer or the grave page owner, they will report you harass them and they will ban your profile in findagrave. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. I have helped many people find long lost ancestors from several generations back with many not knowing where their ancestors were buried. Learn more about requesting management here. Find A Grave is also owed by Mormons who get browie points 4 baptising the dead into their faith. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com Don't buy into it. They typically do that when a member has a long history of violating their site policies. Some families just want 2 be left alone without rehashing family ties. Please reset your password. If you don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). However if u r a 3rd party vendor.such.is the case with.FindAGrave photo taking strictly forbidden. I haven't had any problems with anyone or them, so don't have a clue what is going on. BBB Scam Tracker Still Need Assistance? I am fighting that fight right now - mt grandparents' pages that I have rights to (by F/A/G community guide lines) are held by a random woman that posted in her biography how annoyed she is by people requesting that she fix incorrect information. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. REMOVE THE SUBJECT MEMORIAL: [protected], This person Brenda Beatty McGraw, working for Find a Grave constantly documents false vital statistics concerning my family tree. The emotional stress this is causing my family is tremendous ! findagrave can no longer secure any dead grave names. Kind regards. I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. compete on how many records make is useless. Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. The same thing has happened to me and my suggestion never went through. If you are having problems with your account or have questions about content on the site, please use the Account Question or Support Request option. I can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. Within 5 kilometers of your location. The person who has invaded my family's privacy has created 55 thousand of these things. They're making a tidy bundle off of your work. My estranged sister became Manager on my fathers site and added a nickname to his name on the site. com. Please try again later. This is an ethics issue here ! I'm pretty sure I know whose behind this, I have figured it out. if realy so (if so). I have contacted them and they refuse to remove it. There's an etiquette to these things, whether anyone follows it or not. Many contain personal info that many families wish 2 keep private. Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'. I have contacted find a grave through their website and received one response but no corrections! Have you read Find A Grave's Help section on what to do if your Edit is declined? that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Now the problem is that you don't have an account so there's no where to transfer the memorial to. And sharon shout out loud "this is my precious hard work" I wish you good luck and I hope they've taken it down, I sincerely apologize for what you must be/have been going through/went through. I mean, it's a "public" cemetery, not one in private family hands and as mentioned in a earlier post, when you die the privacy is gone, period. From there this dysfunctional woman took over my mother's memorial in addition to the already 50,000 memorials she has under her belt. But thanks for hijacking this thread. Removing pics at their request is Respect. based on information from your browser. Precious hard work needs to respect copyright, do u understand, sharon haywood They do nothing about it. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. . For consumers, it can happen through online feedback forms or customer service countersbut consumer complaints are a separate matter. A community of members that work together, share information and help people from all over the world to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience. "Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online," wrote the user. This browser does not support getting your location. Approximately 1 Reports Found. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com SO HELP OUT! A Grave .Com ? So any suggestions? what is findagrave, answer me. This person stalks and harasses me by following my flowers i leave on thousands of memorials. Find A Grave reviews & complaints 68 complaints 2 resolved 66 unresolved File a complaint Table of contents Claim listing Follow Share Complaints Contacts FAQ Find A Grave reviews 68 F FuryH of Indianapolis, GB Feb 13, 2023 7:51 am EST Verified customer Memorials and photo Ghouls No, that's not what it means. My complaint is with the new change to the website, I lost the links that were on the old webpage that linked my family members together. And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? Solution: Make a new account, follow the rules, and be nice. This is true even on Newspapers.com (also owned by Ancestry). No one asked you to meddle in family ties This appears to be especially true for African American individuals and other individuals deemed to be not important enough, I am guessing. 2. For those who have the fee-subscription database of Ancestry.com, they have the Find A Grave indexed when you are searching for an ancestor. If you have information that would help us update details about a cemetery on the site, please let us know. send in corrections! think how bad it would mean. unless you really know that person they suspended you like how they suspended me right today. All because they are not respectful of families and not responsible for the content. Showing 1-1 | Showing Page 1 of 1. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. Because all of a sudden there's a name on my Google profile page with my Name ( it has a couple ofe letters that R not the same spelling).This woman that passed born in 1901..died at 94. STRONGLY Agree. I know this might be making some of you angry and further irritated with us "disgusting gravers", but the reality is no laws are broken by taking a photo of a headstone. If is is not removed by Friday June 3rd 2022 there will be action taken against ancestry and find a grave. Find and visit a loved one's final resting place anywhere, anytime. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. Big, fat demented I don't want her u can have her circus freak, Megan Heyl is holding my decessed 6 month old son's memorial hostage and refuses to turn ownership back to me. Historic Oakland Cemetery Not just steal. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. "Find A Grave" thrives on harvesting cemetery data with no regard to family wishes. I've been bullied by dozens of people just because a memorial for a man born over 200 years ago doesn't have information on where he was buried. Yet, often it is the only remaining record about a person's survivors, due to the fact that Ancestry does not have all possible records indexed. BS..Find A Grave is a hang out for graveyard ghouls. Information provided is not true. Stone doesn't last forever . Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience." It's actually not "funny" (your word) that other people are skirting the Find A Grave rules while you attempted to do so as well. She can even risk to take grave photos unauthorized We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. their family and freinds HAD EVERY RIGHTS TO ASK FINDAGRAVE REMOVE THAT RECORD. answer me one thing. Billion graves have a lot of stones too. He hated the nickname and when my father and mother divorced in 1969; he moved back to his home town in NC and was never even called anything been a member since 2016 and i dont log in often, and i just discovered that someone made a memorial for my great grandfather john flint #[protected]. If you don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). Most of us do it to honor your family member and to ensure in 100 years, their descents have a way to feel more connected. Chances are you will find the cemetery you are looking for. Findagrave.com user terms require anyone managing a memorial to turn management control over to a direct relative when requested. A kind, generous, and gentle man, he was born on August 18, 1933 in Claiborne County. Not you wish to steal you go steal, then claim that photo is own by yourself. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. It is owned by Ancestry.com. A guy named NEMIS is mad at me because he owned a memorial by the name of "Marcel Loubens" which is supposed to be listed as a famous memorial. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. Anyone who makes a free FindAGrave account can add memorial pages. Find a Grave contains information for over 500,000 cemeteries in 244 different countries! I dont like findagrave too. ----- And as far as "trampling on a grave" I am ALWAYS careful to NOT step on any grave (provided there's still any indication of one) and use my zoom lens instead. Bill Sky-Eagle. I think it's very selfish to want to keep them to yourself. A. If someone was cremated and the ashes given to someone, there is no cemetery. I would say that many members provide relevant information and are not "collectors" of graves and the service they provide in invaluable. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. I asked that they please have the spouse or parents of that person contact me and I'd be glad to do whatever they wished but I wouldn't remove it from just that email. They stated I was 'harassing' them, despite me trying to calm the situation to get my account restored. You are entitled to what I deem a distasteful opinion that I (and others) am gathering "awards" and "trophies", have lost "all sense of humanity and compassion", and am a "body chaser". This is wrong! The faithful go there to have extended families, extended spouses and an eternity of children/ For those who don't make it there a lower levela work camp of sorts kind of like a purgatory. I arrived on this page because I just had a conversation with my husband that when I pass away not to have an obituary published in newspaper and to only have a headstone with my name, no date of birth or death. That's obscene. who never knew her. just disappeared ? nobody would really be happy with findagrave anymore.! Memorials of: Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected], You get no place trying to get find a grave ghouls to transfer memorials back to the family even though it is protocal to do so. Interesting.