There are two types of Memorials you can create..the basic similar to Find A Grave is free. 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. everyone should be equal and should have privacy. I understand why it is a blessing to some people, however it does in fact invade the privacy of many families. They were being my managed by Patsy Lubben DiMarco who IGNORES transfer requests. Complaining usually happens in the wake of a negative. 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. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? Terminate Brenda Beatty McGraw. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'. Many contain personal info that many families wish 2 keep private. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Mormons believe u enter the after life based on "works" namely procreation, In life Mormons collect huge volumes of data. @, no one has to ask permission to photograph a headstone. I think Find a Grave is a great site, but, I'm a little concerned with some certain people postings, especially on my ancestors that have been posted by people who do not do the research or who put in the wrong information. My estranged sister became Manager on my fathers site and added a nickname to his name on the site. Truly pathetic. Bill Sky-Eagle. Janet, directly under the memorial's information, select 'suggest edits'. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. The dead could care less what u do. 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. Memorials of: Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected], Untrue Information Re: Memorial #[protected], Uneven application of Find a Grave guidelines, Read full review of Find A Grave and 4 comments, Read full review of Find A Grave and 6 comments, 16 years' experience in successful complaint resolution, Each complaint is handled individually by highly qualified experts, Last but not least, all our services are absolutely free. That Find a Grave be consistent. 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. The one who will not relinquish my relatives said his wife is a relative, however, he admitted she is only a cousin and does not even provide relevant biographical information to their "memorials". If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. FindAGrave Administrators- Caleb, Mikenna, and Amber. He died on 16 Nov 1620 aboard the Mayflower, a fact which you can easily validate with a Bing search. The emotional stress this is causing my family is tremendous ! There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. 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. Everyone feels differently about this though. "When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend." IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? Celine McKay Within 5 kilometers of your location. Salt Lake City UT. - 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. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line 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. you regretted your parents and teachers who teach you every knowledge. It is a numbers game and there is no effort put into true research, the bios are limited if they even provide one. 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 [email protected] Sincerely, Find A Grave I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. Ask the Community. The prosecutor says that I can file a civil complaint about this infringement against the guy who took and posted the picture. My last name - there only 7 of us suppose to be as.Actually only 2ofbus and the rest wife and children. However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. A findagrave monitor is removing our confederate veterans tokens of respect and replacing them with hideous looking fake purple violets. The answer is NO and she's not going to respond to emails. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section. The free plan is basic. Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. You then control exactly what's on the memorial. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. They play on emotions. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? You are one of a kind, Findagrave administrators steal my family pages from me and change them. Please contact me within 14 business days, or you will be hearing from my attorney. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. i was disappointed because i have been looking for his interment for years but i was even more disapointed when the owner of the memorial refused to change the listed cemetery i emailed find a grave about this and it took them 1 month to respond they told me that if i could not prove they aren't buried there then they will help. Kind regards. Find and visit a loved one's final resting place anywhere, anytime. Running Deer creates a duplicate, and I told him this was a friend of mine, Then Running Deer refuses to take his memorial down and reported mine as a duplicate. Other details can be found and verified on one of the family history websites - some of which are free. FindAGrave also threatened me with legal action if I took it any further. The info on him was compiled by several members, and info from members of the Montgomery county Md. family or friends can call findagrave to delete unallowed photographs on their family/friend's tombstones. I have no issue with someone adding OLD graves they found while walking the cemeteries. "Find A Grave" thrives on harvesting cemetery data with no regard to family wishes. Sometimes if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. Which legally or DNA wise is not a relation. I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. I live in central Va. and my father's plot is in Elliott City, there . Kind regards, Method 1 Searching Individual Headstones 1 Visit the cemetery if you know where it is. I've been sent many messages of great thanks for doing so, including from many adoptees. Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. Best wishes, Ancestry provides a myriad of beneficial services; Find A Grave is yet another website providing beneficial information. 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. 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. who never knew her. Son of Edward Chandler, a labourer. FindAGrave is 4 bored people who gave up all their vices have nothing better to do than being cyber undertakers and stick their nose I'm everyone's business. 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). ti's not "HARD WORK. " The information is public, online or not. For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. Previously, I had a friend write me my other experience on 'people who hate memorials listed as burial details unknown'. It's that simple. A. how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. Plan to go early in the day, in case it takes you a while to find the exact location. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. I don't see the point in the complaint. I got a kick from this off their faq page: This should only be about putting up memorials and helping people find their loved ones, THAT'S IT. Like FB you control what's on the page. Search Now. In fact, he has added pictures that he took from one of my memorials without any attribution and he cropped the picture to remove my uncle from the picture. Find a Grave contains information for over 500,000 cemeteries in 244 different countries! I want to add to my comment above that it is only a numbers game with a few individuals. That's obscene. Ask for permission. They are by states of where the person was buried. Why? Seriously? yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. I even added a picture of my relative and the person told@ me to take it down. She manages OVER 8,600 memorials and made a ton of mistakes on my parents memorials. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. These ghouls harvest photos from non private trees and then post the info on Find A Grave. Findagrave.com user terms require anyone managing a memorial to turn management control over to a direct relative when requested. Added almost 3000 memorials. And yes, they are a husband-wife . 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. I don't see the point in the complaint. aged 43, married FindAGrave was meant to help people find where someone's last resting place was. When burial details are unknown, Ancestry has a "global" index for this. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? By scanning the Internet, you can find and save more than 180 million graves worldwide. listed divorce dates, ex spouses names and material of a more private nature our family did not want to share with the world. I am the last of my family and I even submitted a copy of my birth certificate showing relation. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. I returned home yesterday from out of town, having just attended his funeral. Anyone walking a cemetery can find DOB. Forms, by Agency Find a U.S. federal government form by choosing the agency that publishes it. This comment was posted by a verified customer. I need to confirm my email address with Find a Grave..I don't know why is a leget address..I was thinking maybe all a SCAM. Does it occur to them that maybe just maybe its a memorial site and that the FAMILY might want to create the memorial and have correct information on their loved ones memorials. Yes Virginia. Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? things I will never get back now. 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. I am absolutely revolted! Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. And almost as many gravestone photos. If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. because if her friends/her classmates/classmates parents. It all boils down to how well you play with others. And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? Desired outcome: Once redeemed these souls may enter heaven and start having children. Do not bring up respect when you yourself seem to have never even processed the topic. The "known disposition" is the key - you have to know the disposition BEFORE you add a memorial. information was given on three people is on people that are still alive ; so cause of death listed incorrectly, since people are still alive, not d e a d! Caleb, Mikenna, Amber are sending me emails asking to send them names and numbers of all my dead family and my parents and siblings names, I think they are doing this to find info on them and steal them from me. Find A Grave deceptive, rip off, scam Salt Lake City, UT. they think that, if your photo is put there, you will die fast. There are tons of memorials created every day with information about surviving relatives; but Find a Grave allows it, as long as nobody says anything. answer me one thing. 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 open to anyone creating a memorial for a deceased person with a known disposition. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. I understand how it would feel really wrong to have a young child, recently gone, posted on the site but I really don't think there's much to be done about it. 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. I can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. This politically correct world is becoming ridicules when we can't even tell historical facts about people .One of my relatives committed suicide because his wife left him do to he drank to much . Choose a topic below to begin. I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. All this and more with just a few taps. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. It's only a website. Well, Sharon Haywood, many of the volunteers here don't even hold an ounce of respect when they do this. that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. Author: Kalamazoo, Michigan. What is your experience with Find A Grave? We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. If a family member has asked you to remove a memorial, than you do it. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. Please enter your email and password to sign in. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. It is purely disgusting what they do, I understand the bit of finding relatives and such, however adding details like that is just revolting. R.L. Fire Sarah, the evil administrator who removed my account, and threatened to have me arrested because she refused to treat me the same as other members. 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. Did you include a link to your profile or your member number? I am sorry that your loved one has passed. This includes both general and info of a more private nature that most families do nor want published on the net. My name is Bill Sky-Eagle. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but yes I have been there, and what your feeling now, will not be shared by other relatives 50 years from now as they look at your daughters memorial with love or to research their kin. 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. Now the problem is that you don't have an account so there's no where to transfer the memorial to. Mostly we are retired in any case. When confronted they claim they r performing.a service if families want it or not. Findagrave is gross and obscene. I am amazed at people who have done 20, 000+ headstones, don't they have a life. Findagrave has mounted information against my permission, and I'm having to retain an attorney because of find-a-grave's unscrupulous behavior. It is owned by Ancestry and Ancestry is not owned by the church. I find a lot of family history in find a grave. This account has been disabled. It was founded in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident, Jim Tipton. i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. With no regard for the family Megan Heyl also added time sensitive material that is really none of her business i.e. 04/17/2022 I do a few memorials for family and friends. Resend Activation Email. If you can't find someone on the site, it's probably just . If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. 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. I looked at this persons profile and it showed this person had over 1, 000.000 memorials posted, only been a member for 5 years. Contact Your Local BBB Your local Better Business Bureau can assist you with finding businesses and. This is the result of 698 total reviews. We are not associated with the cemetery and don't have any information beyond what the community has added. I dont like findagrave too. I am sure you can find another forum for that discussion. Sharon Haywood. The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customers satisfaction. I respect a families wishes whenever possible but in this instance it appears it was his daughter wanting it removed although her siblings wanted it to stay. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line Search 502,691 cemeteries in 243 different countries. When I protested FindAGrave blocked my isp and booted me out. 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. Kristy is an internationally known Psychic Medium and Psychic Detective. Also F.A.G says they award points, so beef with them. Find a Grave used a photo of me for someone else. but you know sir. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. This is an ethics issue here ! It shouldn't be about having 7, 000 memorials, nor should anyone "own" a cemetery (I had an issue with a woman over that as well and finally decided the hell with her, if she didn't have one of the people buried, than I added it). or "PRECIOUS HARD WORK" Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. If you don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). As for memorials being an invasion of privacy, while I feel for the woman who didn't want her daughter's stone put up on the website, if I had a photo up and a family member asked me to remove it I would. I would email the cemetery asking if they could please verify whether or not John Flint, birth date-death date, is indeed buried there. Somehow my email address was changed and I am no longer allowed to sign in as info comes up "does not match" I have written to Finda Grave many times requesting a correction.