Every one listen, this website is a blessing to everyone that's on it, it was put here to view memorials and find peace. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. Users upload photos of headstones and memorials, transcriptions of engravings, biographical information and links to family members. Spare me. She claims she has THE RIGHT to document what she pleases. So much unneccesary stress its to the point I consider suicide. So yeah! Read full review of Find A Grave and 2 comments. This is very basic courtesy. You really don't need all the drama FindAGrave's hierarchy throws in your face. Kind regards, Find A Grave contributors are not responsible for the content of the memorials they create. Good luck ! God forbid you had a famous relative? yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. As someone who does genealogy work I find Find a Grave invaluable. The dead have no right to privacy. Yes Virginia. May I add most of the memorials r created by bored housewives who make a game of how many of these things they can make. As a young man he joined. She refused. My estranged sister became Manager on my fathers site and added a nickname to his name on the site. It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. Kristy is an internationally known Psychic Medium and Psychic Detective. [1] If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. I don't know who she is. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. That also shows me that this person's hobby is spending constant hours on Find a Grave for her/his number count. It is very obvious that he is upset with Find-A-Grave. No one asked you to meddle in family ties Are you upset with public death certificates published online? the email is from his daughter (she claim it's his daughter) but sounds like it's pretending his daughter. 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. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. 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. Use it to search for burial information and gravestone images among the 160 million online memorials volunteers have logged at Find A Grave. Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. Findagrave sucks. Stop awarding points like trophies. Nasty sorry this happened to you it certainly shouldnt happened. I never heard back so it's still there. They don't care if their site is riddled with viruses and unsuspecting computer catch it. I don't see the point in the complaint. Celine McKay Mormons view of religion is a little different than Western thought. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. I have visit grave site that someone had taken a picture of headstones by the time I got there years later the headstone was clean and more visible. Running Deer takes his memorial [protected] down. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? Find A Grave started in 1995 developed to cater to founder Jim Tipton's hobby of visiting celebrity's graves the company's mission is to post memorials, remembrances, and virtual flowers of celebrities and every-day people 180 million+ memorials, some have gravestone images and some do not BillionGraves started in 2010 The new "Complaints" page was created by the same person, Mr. Pritchard, who contributed the 13 complaints. Wasted my timeFind A Grave has changed a lot since it changed hands. We all have ancestors we like to memorialize. Did I post the information of the drunk teenager that killed her? They are about a month behind in their email correspondence. Well for all the money findagrave is apparently making if they want my help fulfilling the hundreds of requests in my local graveyard then they'e going to have to pull some money out of that old sock and put up. The fact alone that you are completely disregarding this mothers concerns shows how much you actually care. My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? How may I get my issues addressed? That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. family or friends can call findagrave to delete unallowed photographs on their family/friend's tombstones. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. But when I find it, post it and notify the requestor that are overjoyed. If anyone asks me to remove their family members headstone I will gladly do so, if you can prove you are a direct relative. This includes both general and info of a more private nature that most families do nor want published on the net. The site would consist solely of faked pictures. Memorial: Mary Payne ([protected]) This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. send in corrections! - had parents of someone posted in the wrong cemetery, so I photocopied the page from the cemetery book & posted it on the pages for her parents to show correct place of burial, Ladybug threw a fit, reported me & I got the boot; Ladybug was rude as heck to me in several emails, but I guess that doesnt matter. Stone doesn't last forever . Ms. DiMarco is a complete stranger who has NO familial ties to these memorials. I got a kick from this off their faq page: Like FB you control what's on the page. Hey James, actually you should not find ladybug person. "Find A Grave's" support generally ignores family requests in favour of their cyber ghouls who r constantly on the lookout to create just one more memorial in hopes of hitting the million mark. 42.5k. the dead person family (headstone person family or friend) can report to findagrave that you are unauthorized then your burial record on that person will be deleted immediately. That's obscene. They are by states of where the person was buried. posts. Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". Well, Sharon Haywood, many of the volunteers here don't even hold an ounce of respect when they do this. I contacted FindAGrave and they ignored my requests even though their new rules of conduct r very explicit that when confronted these "major contributors" supposed to turn memorials back to the family. I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. After finding this woman on Facebook, I can confirm Ms. DiMarco wouldn't be allowed into my parents or grandparents homes while they were living, so WHY should she be allowed to manage their memorials ? We have set your language to Back then it was a site consisting of records of celebrities and their burial sites. They do nothing about it. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. 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. The person who stole them claims to be related although they arent and they have never met any of my family. Contacted manager of my daughter's "site" who has refused to remove information I object to from daughter's bio or agree to transfer the memorial to me. Some people do not want their family members in the site, and its not your God-given right as a volunteer to ignore that. What the hell is wrong with people. Thanks for your help! Chuck's claim to fame is being an expert at useless knowledge. It is owned by Ancestry.com. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. My sister's children are in their 20's they do not want to go to or see her grave. She can even risk to take grave photos unauthorized Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'. I hate it that Find A Grave's eager beavers invades family privacy by creating various memorials with links 2'other branches without permission from the family. 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. not all people know your daughter had not really died. When I got to my ggg grandmother, I went to connect her memorial to one of her daughter's memorials which just so happened to be managed by a person named "Scout" who LITERALLY is managing over 200,000 Ancestry company - "Findagrave" is effectively holding my grandparents memorials hostage. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. Like Fish1452, I only manage a very few memorials and I have been a member of [censored] for over 20 years. Instead, FindAGrave turned the memorial over to one of their major contributors, a Megan Heyl on the grounds she was the expert concerning my family. TAKE IT DOWN you ###! And Nothing was ever done. I don't know who took your daughter's photo (or anyone else in here). Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. If you know the cemetery where someone is buried but you're not sure exactly which plot is theirs, take a trip to the graveyard. Which legally or DNA wise is not a relation. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. Why? . I want to RIP. This appears to be especially true for African American individuals and other individuals deemed to be not important enough, I am guessing. I do not care how many countless hours "Find A Grave's cyber ghouls put into it. On the Obituary for Stacy Bradburn Billings [protected] the person has inserted a picture of a person Stacy Bradburn who is still alive. dead person family can still object if they dont want. But this past month has been a nightmare. if the person died, findagrave must let the person stay in their site, even if they had not have tombstone/headstone. Then have one of their major contributers take over ur memorial. She's also violating her fiduciary role as a "Findagrave" volunteer. My older brother was put up on findagrave without my family's permission, which my mother found out about years ago, and she wasn't given a reply when she requested to have it removed. Quickly search more than 180 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. because findagrave should NOT allow people take unauthorized headstone and claim "DEAD PEOPLE PRIVACY IS GONE". internet is free to use. These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. The answer is NO and she's not going to respond to emails. Editor's Review: Find A Grave is a free resource for finding burial places and headstones around the world. At the time he was a soldier in the 26th Cameronians Regiment. There are very few privately owned cemeteries in the US. You're not alone in your complaint. It is purely disgusting what they do, I understand the bit of finding relatives and such, however adding details like that is just revolting. Findagrave is gross and obscene. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com They are allowing another Administrator SMS to steal and/ or remove original profiles to make it their own. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. This is wrong! I am amazed at people who have done 20, 000+ headstones, don't they have a life. So Ancestry is breaking Find a Grave's guidelines. Many private cemeteries have banned FindAGravd's top contributor cyber ghouls from taking photos of tombstones. All in all, I will say it again. The same thing has happened to me and my suggestion never went through. You haven't done anything wrong. If you do not want others to see you name or your daughter's do not put it on the stone. To use this feature, use a newer browser. Man it's their photo not your photo. Everyone feels differently about this though. Are you going to blame the owner (Photo copyright owner) by saying that facebook is really public, every photo you put can be stolen anytime by any online person. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. Unlike Western thought Mormons do not believe in a trinity and some deny Christ as the son of God. 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. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. I have helped many people find long lost ancestors from several generations back with many not knowing where their ancestors were buried. It was sudden, he was in the prime of his life. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. These ghouls harvest photos from non private trees and then post the info on Find A Grave. Anyone who makes a free FindAGrave account can add memorial pages. I am wandering am I, going to have to pay Ancestery .Com now for all the info that was suppose to be free on find. Have you read Find A Grave's Help section on what to do if your Edit is declined? if you harass someone they will report to Findagrave staff and your account will be ban, Ladybug is just one of those rude f## people. If you are hoping to find the grave of a specific relative, then you will need to have some vital record information: Full name (first, middle, last) Date of birth Date of death Location of death You can find full names and birthdates on family bibles or baptismal and census records. all the info that told about who he was related to, and the story that was in the newspaper is gone from his web site now . aged 43, married For consumers, it can happen through online feedback forms or customer service countersbut consumer complaints are a separate matter. There are two types of Memorials you can create..the basic similar to Find A Grave is free. Find a Grave Team November 17, 2020 at 10:42 am Hi Marsha, please contact support@findagrave.com and explain this situation with details and we'll look into this further. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. If u persist you are banned for harassing the top contributor who now manages the Memorial "you" created. Owner block you. Yet the "manager" of this site refuses to correct the error after I informed them that I'm a family member and provided them with a link to the named cemetery which lists the names of all individuals buried there. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. 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. Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world. Most people defending this site use finding a passed family member from hundreds of years ago as an excuse, and I understand that, however I do not understand that they take pictures of children only recently passed. 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 - Has no check against rampant fraud. Several times I've asked for corrections on my Mother's memorials. Send that to the person clearly outlining your direct relationship. This commonplace.Memorial Park themed cemeteries. I have been a member of FindaGrave for many years. Historic Oakland Cemetery Mostly we are retired in any case. Find A Grave - Access to findagrave and a complaint about a comment left on a findagrave page. And They do not need member ID or profile link. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. It should be "well I've got more than you do" what are you 5? Contact Your Local BBB Your local Better Business Bureau can assist you with finding businesses and. Best wishes, Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. My problem is with the company who does not do a better job of arbitrating with people who want to hoard other people's relatives. Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. Yes, I know what they are supposed to do.. I got threatened with police action because the evil administrators refused to give my account back after it was removed. Again, it's only a website overrun by volunteers so move on. The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. 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. Find a Grave - Online Search. I find the time that I put in is 99.9% of the time greatly appreciated by family that is looking to connected to those ancestors or family members that have left this world. ^^^^^Seems to me that they are taking advantage of the people doing the photography. Wowmost of you really need to get a life. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. 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. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. These so called "major contributors" also post family photos they have swiped from the net. A person by the name of Joan Donnelly Ellis stole my partners photo from the funeral home web site and changed the obituary, she had no business doing that. Find a Grave contains information for over 500,000 cemeteries in 244 different countries! Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? I feel this infringes on my privacy, copyright laws and personal property of mine being placed on the internet for advertising purposes. Open to both member questions and member answers. For example, I have a cousin whose memorial was posted, no picture of the headstone, no information on all her pass husbands ( she was married 6 times, only one mentioned because it was on her obituary which was posted in an El Paso, Texas newspaper. Please check to see if your confederate ancestors token of respect hasn't been changed over to a hideous LOOKING PURPLE flower. this is quite/very serious. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some who never knew her. This person will not answer my emails and the police have located him. The day of publicly available data is here and increases daily. U can also change photos and music any time u wantno restrictions. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. Within 5 kilometers of your location. I told her I would not give her the death notice or pictures, she harassed me and it was done anyway without our knowledge. This is not hard work. Findagrave has a rule, family and friend of dead can report stolen headstone photo to findagrave staff and staff can remove the page down and suspend that member (Creator), your daughter photo is not their property but your property, this site has problems of using other person photo. State, Local, and Tribal Governments Find contact information for state, local, and tribal governments. As a result, misspelled names, incorrect dates of birth and dates of death, unrelated family members and the list goes on, are written in these memorials. The prosecutor says that I can file a civil complaint about this infringement against the guy who took and posted the picture. Account question or Support Request Update to memorial Update cemetery Question for the cemetery Website Feedback Find a Grave 1300 West Traverse Parkway Lehi, UT 84043 He must of went through the grave yard and saw this grave with my nephews middle name and last name on his temporary marker. Nobody would love f## site. (they are in many places) Marriages and divorces? They just would not listen. 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. FINDAGRAVE and ANCESTRY.COM are owned by the same people. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. The mechanics do not work like you were brainwashed to believe. 3. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. No, that's not what it means. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. Janet, directly under the memorial's information, select 'suggest edits'. Not happy about it. ti's not "HARD WORK. " It is essentially a long term lease from the cemetery. Click here to get notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. Desired outcome: You will get no place arguing with FindAGrave's hierarchy or major contributors. What they do believe in concerning an after life is an eternal plain that is tended by a mother and father God. 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. 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 know this person and his family . This is true even on Newspapers.com (also owned by Ancestry). Ancestry has SO many complaints already, they don't want any more. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. 2. I was wondering if they shut down. Your argument is that findagrave is an open, safe space for individuals who can create memorials of family members and friends. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. This browser does not support getting your location. Manager bases their reasoning for not correcting this on a cemetery advertisement that was below my loved one's obituary and responded that "you don't know what you're talking about." My nephew passed on new year's eve. I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. Choose a topic below to begin. This person has harassed me even on created memorials I worked hard on. R.L. 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. Chances are you will find the cemetery you are looking for. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" Please contact me within 14 business days, or you will be hearing from my attorney. It is a place to record cemeteries. Terminate Brenda Beatty McGraw. I have been a member of find a grave since it first started. Do you want your child forgotten? Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. Its directed at those whos compulsion is to have as many as they can for their own greedy ego. 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. I don't see the point in the complaint. Desired outcome: Just so you know. Find A Grave should monitor this kind of behavior, and if those people refuse to follow the rules, then they should be banned. now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. FindAGrave was meant to help people find where someone's last resting place was. What I do know is this tracking down ancestor graves is HARD work. 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. Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. If you look closely at Find A Grave you will notice that all of the memorial information is on the right-hand side of the page and there is a space on the left-hand side of the page that contains these huge banner ads. because if her friends/her classmates/classmates parents. My name is Bill Sky-Eagle. Search Now. Find A Grave has many untrue information. The bottom-lineNot every family wants to be part of "Find A Grave's internet kingdom." Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. I am absolutely revolted! There are spelling errors and incorrect info. Forms, by Agency Find a U.S. federal government form by choosing the agency that publishes it. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. 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. Sigh of relief. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. Method 1 Searching Individual Headstones 1 Visit the cemetery if you know where it is. Non related people can steal your family (Dead family dead friends) photo/headstone, and put online in their name on creator list, when you ask them transfer to you, they said no and even claim to staff you harass they. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Assure them you'll go legal and watch then cave. their family and freinds HAD EVERY RIGHTS TO ASK FINDAGRAVE REMOVE THAT RECORD. They are doing this to my family because I reported SMS to FamilySearch for messing with my family AFTER I had asked how he was related and tried 70 times to ask he/she to stop. That Find a Grave be consistent. My mother-in-law's site is totally inaccurate; says where she's buried. if you harass the creatoer or the grave page owner, they will report you harass them and they will ban your profile in findagrave. They're making a tidy bundle off of your work. The.rational .they.r.private cemeteries and have My computer system is set up to alert me if something downloads without my permission so it was caught almost immediately. I find a lot of family history in find a grave. Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. Action, and change of name on Memorial or transfer to myself so I can put pertinent information on the Memorial. Not true. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. I would say that many members provide relevant information and are not "collectors" of graves and the service they provide in invaluable. I took photos and also added baby pictures to a memorial I created on FindAGrave. The person who took my great grandfathers memorial has captured over 50,000 souls and she cannot do a simple favor! Finally, ### is neither all bad or all good, but some issues need to be addressed in civilized matter and in fairness to all users. send in corrections! Within 5 miles of your location. I couldn't care less about the number of memorials I create (you refer to these as "points"; I assure you, they are not); have GREAT empathy, compassion and respect when it comes to the dead, and certainly don't chase bodies. The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world's largest free online collection of burial information. The site stores over 120 million grave records, providing plenty of material. Nuff said. Are you going to say "facebook is public, not yours. There is a process to get memorials transferred. 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. it's your choice to take unauthorized headstone and put on findagrave. I check notifications daily so that any family with closer ties may contact me and have their memorial transferred to them (especially since that is supposed to be how it works). So I'm VERY CURIOUS. putting undead people photo on die site. Then you are suspended. deleting precious hard work that someone has done is very disrespectful. BBB Scam Tracker Still Need Assistance? I've created over a thousand memorials and thousands of photos, some were by request, others not.