Once the memorial is completed Findagrave turns the memorial over to one of their major contributors who thus adds personal information about the deceased and their families they have swiped from the net. all people have their own rights or privacy even if they die. 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. I started on there when it first started as a way to link my family and friends family for future generations, but once they started making it a contest it became distasteful and grotesque. think how bad it would mean. People who hate memorials listed as "burial details unknown", Aggressive elderly man is mad at me because I made his memorial famous, Find A Grave - protects stalkers and harassments, Find A Grave - Unfair and bad membership service, Find A Grave - Added to website before a family knew a death had happened. This account has been disabled. Your argument is that findagrave is an open, safe space for individuals who can create memorials of family members and friends. He died on 16 Nov 1620 aboard the Mayflower, a fact which you can easily validate with a Bing search. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. I contacted the support team and had two replies, then nothing but silence for close to a month now in regards to managing the pages of the people that raised me (blood related). Cannot contact him because he is not taking questions His name is Jeff Hubbard. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. They are more interested in grabbing a tombstone in hopes of getting brownie points. I am also a member of Ancestry which owns FindaGrave, yet there has been no correction and no help. Yes Virginia. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. It is a wonderful thing we all do here, but historians need to not only just walk the grave yards then make a memorial so they can get their numbers up. Once redeemed these souls may enter heaven and start having children. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. We welcome you to Grave Matters. However, if you can provide me with a suitable certificate ,then I will make your change and attribute it to yourself. Dear Sirs, If you want to create a memorial for a loved one and be free of Find A Grave ghouls go to "Forever Missed." 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. Not true! BBB Scam Tracker Still Need Assistance? If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. Please try again later. I even added a picture of my relative and the person told@ me to take it down. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. 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. In memory of your daughter, why don't you start a family tree of your own, for your relatives and descendants to enjoy. A kind, generous, and gentle man, he was born on August 18, 1933 in Claiborne County. You're not alone in your complaint. 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. I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: 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. Desired outcome: Action, and change of name on Memorial or transfer to myself so I can put pertinent information on the Memorial. As someone who does genealogy work I find Find a Grave invaluable. just disappeared ? How ridiculous! The site stores over 120 million grave records, providing plenty of material. I was born in 1978 but sorry for your daughter. I haven't had any problems with anyone or them, so don't have a clue what is going on. The dead could care less what u do. Mostly we are retired in any case. On Ancestry, in the "global" index for body dispositions that are unknown, surviving relatives are mentioned on those find a grave memorial pages. [1] waste of taxpayer money. We'd love to hear from you. If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. My advice.. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. better not put personal photos online(esp girl naked photos). Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. I am sorry that your loved one has passed. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? Youll find helpful information about your account here or you can use this form to send us questions about account issues. Get a life. what is findagrave, answer me. 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 email is from his daughter (she claim it's his daughter) but sounds like it's pretending his daughter. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. Desired outcome: 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. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. unless you really know that person I asked for a transfer but got NO RESPONSE. That Find a Grave be consistent. IF IT BOTHERS YOU, GO FIND THE BURIAL YOURSELF IF YOU THINK IT"S EASY. Find A Grave should monitor this kind of behavior, and if those people refuse to follow the rules, then they should be banned. 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. their own unique way of cataloging data. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line 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. Please include the cemetery ID number or the URL to the cemetery page on Find a Grave. Good luck ! To a point, I don't blame him. So, NO the I wouldn't trust anyone who did genealogy research using Find A Grave. 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. I had been a member for several years. It is disturbing that Ancestry has television commercials depicting African Americans searching for their ancestors, when so many records remain un-indexed and hidden from discovery. My heart goes out to you. Sharon Haywood. Findagrave does not relinquish hold on a memorial when their representative is not reachable to contact. Find A Grave - Access to findagrave and a complaint about a comment left on a findagrave page. God bless you all ! I am amazed at people who have done 20, 000+ headstones, don't they have a life. Many f## people are very unfriednly, when ladybug reported you, findagrave banned you so you can NOT see anything. that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. I returned home yesterday from out of town, having just attended his funeral. now findagrave deletes burial records and members now. What burns me up is when people sitting at home are too lazy to go out and take real photos and instead make a memorial from an obituary with useless or private information about the deceased and family members and add the obituary photo of the deceased. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. Precious hard work needs to respect copyright, do u understand, sharon haywood based on information from your browser. So you are one of those obnoxious [censored]s who think that if there isn't a burial, then there isn't a point in adding it? The emotional stress this is causing my family is tremendous ! Grave Matters Chuck and Kristy Robinett. how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. 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. There are very few privately owned cemeteries in the US. Within 5 kilometers of your location. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. Ask for permission. theft is wrong. If u r family or tourists u can take photos. Plan to go early in the day, in case it takes you a while to find the exact location. Stop awarding points like trophies. Further harassing a Find A Grave employee on a different website (this one) only proves that there is a serious problem with your unreasonable, childish behavior. Nothing has been done and I'm upset! . Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. Back then it was a site consisting of records of celebrities and their burial sites. And Nothing was ever done. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may contact the customer support team. For all legal purposes, it is not your loved one, it is a memorial for your loved one. It should be "well I've got more than you do" what are you 5? It is very obvious that he is upset with Find-A-Grave. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. Desired outcome: deleting precious hard work that someone has done is very disrespectful. From there this dysfunctional woman took over my mother's memorial in addition to the already 50,000 memorials she has under her belt. About the company This site has been active for more than 20 years, first appearing online way back in 1995. 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. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. What is your experience with Find A Grave? I want to RIP. Desired outcome: 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 I am a private person in life and I want privacy when I die. I have been a member of FindaGrave for many years. He must of went through the grave yard and saw this grave with my nephews middle name and last name on his temporary marker. The new marker really looked nice. We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. There was a problem getting your location. Within 5 miles of your location. 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. Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. My mother-in-law's site is totally inaccurate; says where she's buried. Stop awarding points like trophies. You can suggest additions or corrections and the manager can choose to use those to improve the memorial. Owners of private property on which a cemetery or graves are located shall have a duty to allow ingress and egress to the cemetery or graves by (i) family members and descendants of deceased persons buried there; (ii) any cemetery plot owner; (iii) any person engaging in genealogy research, who has given reasonable notice to the owner of Not true. The person who took my great grandfathers memorial has captured over 50,000 souls and she cannot do a simple favor! So I am very sorry for your loss, as I still have pot gotten over mine, fortunately for me, I now have a nine year old granddaughter from my son. My sister's children are in their 20's they do not want to go to or see her grave. ----- 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. 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. things I will never get back now. I dont think anyone takes photos of headstones to hurt anyone but only to help others find where their ancestors/relatives were laid to rest and to preserve history. FindAGrave was meant to help people find where someone's last resting place was. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. 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 is not hard work. My sister's grave is on this site, Eilleen Sien of Colonia, N.J Contacted me by phone and Face Book, my Family DID NOT WANT this information posted! I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. It was not put here for it to be a tug of war or a battleground everyone must follow the rules and regulations Well then I emailed Running Deer to let him be aware that this is my nephew, and that I didn't disclose that at first because I have caught him at this before. Use it to search for burial information and gravestone images among the 160 million online memorials volunteers have logged at Find A Grave. Prehistoric grave sites contain fragile, easily destroyed remains. Some people do not want their family members in the site, and its not your God-given right as a volunteer to ignore that. Forever Missed's top package is something like $30.00 bucks. You are one of a kind, Findagrave administrators steal my family pages from me and change them. I dont like findagrave too. This is the result of 698 total reviews. It's not on the tombstone and it was a nickname given to him by coworker where he worked for 4 years from [protected]. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. If the family wants their relatives and has proved the relationship, then their request should be honored. You really don't need all the drama FindAGrave's hierarchy throws in your face. (They want to email Ms. DiMarco to ask if shes related to MY grandparents). If anyone asks me to remove their family members headstone I will gladly do so, if you can prove you are a direct relative. Anne Maher McKay Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. Weve updated the security on the site. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. This is totally wrong. I wanted to create a memorial for my grandfather and grandmother on Find A Grave. What is the Find a Grave Community? Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. Solution: Make a new account, follow the rules, and be nice. See Wikipedia for more.. Find A Grave; Genealogy data can be searched for by entering the name of a person to find where that person is buried. I did research about Marcel Loubens and emailed findagrave to ask they are ingrates, they dont allow anything negative to be said thats why i want this post to be known publis how they are prot putinist pro stalinist and WHY NEVER EVER TO SUPPORT FINDAGRAVE.COM IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM! The "known disposition" is the key - you have to know the disposition BEFORE you add a memorial. I only record what is mentioned on the stone. Their top contributors do not research people. That's what you want the memorials you want to control transferred to you. 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. This is wrong! internet is free to use. Now the problem is that you don't have an account so there's no where to transfer the memorial to. 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. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? listed divorce dates, ex spouses names and material of a more private nature our family did not want to share with the world. 42.5k. That is, relatives asking that someone who lives locally go document a grave because they can't do so themselves. Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. So what does that tell you about this person with over 1, 000, 000 memorials added? 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. I can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. Assure them you'll go legal and watch then cave. 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. You've closed your mind to anything other . I have only been a member maybe 6 months I would never delete anyones work. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. They steal my records, my photos and basically my deceased family. 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. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. Voila! Nasty sorry this happened to you it certainly shouldnt happened. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. 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. But what they did do is give control to someone who claims to be related through my third great grandfathers brother. Most likely FindAGrave will also threaten u with law enforcement for stalking in addition to legal action. If you don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). 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. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. Truly pathetic. 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. 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. putting undead people photo on die site. They are horrible! I have a good clue who is doing this to our flowers we leave on confederate veterans memorials. Not just steal. I didnt even get an email from Find A Grave to warn me. family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. Ask the Community. I have contacted Find A Grave and even submitted a copy of my birth certificate and they have done nothing. STOP HOLDING MY GRANDPARENTS MEMORIALS HOSTAGE ! Ancestry has SO many complaints already, they don't want any more. I only post a headstone photo that I personally have taken and sometimes link a person to a spouse. Hun, Your daughter's grave and headstone are in a PUBLIC PLACEpeople use find a grave for RESEARCH reasons, and to SAVE these names for posteritythey do it because THEY CARE..not for any money or fame . Use this form for website feedback and suggestions to improve how the website works. Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? 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. Anyone else wants to make "corrections", like a bored housewife, YOU get to decline. She can even risk to take grave photos unauthorized if you not know the person, you take their headstone, put on findagrave. Brought in dead to The Meath Hospital, Heytesbury Street, Dublin, having had a Coronary Occlusion & Paroxysmal Tachycardia, certified I find a lot of family history in find a grave. The answer is NO and she's not going to respond to emails. There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. I'm going to contact them again and if it's not resolved I will have to see what legal action I can take, Find A Grave's top contributor cyber ghouls r banned from photographing tombstones. The.rational .they.r.private cemeteries and have I lost my daughter in 1978. 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. . More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. She means, if she goes around grave, to glorify herself and her findagrave records. I'd like to say that this website is in fact, not a blessing. Approximately 1 Reports Found. TAKE IT DOWN you ###! Find a Grave is an online community project. That also shows me that this person's hobby is spending constant hours on Find a Grave for her/his number count. findagrave can no longer secure any dead grave names. You put it there to honor them and share your love for them in a public place for anyone who is in the cemetery to see, behold and treasure for generations to come. I really do not care what other people think, or if it is public record. My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. Visit Website Email this Business (919) 862-3704 This business has 0 complaints File a Complaint Burial Assistance Delivery Service Monuments Caskets Overview Never Forgotten Memorials delivers. This is not precious. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. Not happy about it. I am now being stalked by these administrators and they dont stop. Several plans available. Find A Grave is not owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? I am not dead, yet! Have you read Find A Grave's Help section on what to do if your Edit is declined? if the person died, findagrave must let the person stay in their site, even if they had not have tombstone/headstone. Everyone feels differently about this though. 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 don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. It is in fact not precious hard work, it is simply walking around and taking pictures of graves. This was a second marriage for Mary Ann when she had been widowed and married James Payne in 1862, A message inserted under my mother's name Anne McKay at Templeogue cemetery by John, Read full review of Find A Grave and 5 comments, Complaint against a contributor who creates duplicate memorials, Running Deer takes his memorial [protected] down, Read full review of Find A Grave and 3 comments, Aggressive elderly man is mad at me because I made his memorial famous, People who hate memorials listed as "burial details unknown", Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. I tried to inform Find A Gave of the issue but to no avail. IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. The mechanics do not work like you were brainwashed to believe. It requires patience. 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.