Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: It is very obvious that he is upset with Find-A-Grave. Dear Sirs, It is both hurtful and embarrassing to family members. Several times I've asked for corrections on my Mother's memorials. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. 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. Sometimes someone doesn't live up to our expectations. A. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? 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. 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; and (iii) any person engaging in genealogy research, who has given reasonable notice to the owner of Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. Again, it's only a website overrun by volunteers so move on. For the record I am 75 years old and thinks it pretty [censored]ty of FindAGrave to respond in such a way. What is your experience with Find A Grave? You then control exactly what's on the memorial. This appears to be especially true for African American individuals and other individuals deemed to be not important enough, I am guessing. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. 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. not all people know your daughter had not really died. The rationale: They do not want a resting place for the dead to be devourered by FindAGrave's cyber knowitall undertakers. 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. So any suggestions? Good luck ! If you don't like it, just log off. I even added a picture of my relative and the person told@ me to take it down. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. Brought in dead to The Meath Hospital, Heytesbury Street, Dublin, having had a Coronary Occlusion & Paroxysmal Tachycardia, certified With no regard for the family Megan Heyl also added time sensitive material that is really none of her business i.e. Then they boot you out or ban u. Findagrave.com user terms require anyone managing a memorial to turn management control over to a direct relative when requested. Personal Services: Find A Grave. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. Its directed at those whos compulsion is to have as many as they can for their own greedy ego. If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. I don't see the point in the complaint. In many cases these ghouls comb local obits and reprint them on Find A Grave. Second, for anyone on here who has lost a loved one and finds the work we do (freely without pay and out of the kindness of our hearts most of us anyway) "disgusting, or that it infringes on your privacy, copyright laws and personal property", I am sorry that you feel that way. As someone who does genealogy work I find Find a Grave invaluable. I know this person and his family . Running Deer takes his memorial [protected] down. We have set your language to It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. "Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online," wrote the user. There was facks about my Grate grand mother that had been compiled on his web site telling where she was born in Ireland, all the exact details about her life, Who her brother was ? Did you include a link to your profile or your member number? Removing pics at their request is Respect. I thank them for their time and move on. Hi Sharon! Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. yes it's funeral site. However if u r a 3rd party vendor.such.is the case with.FindAGrave photo taking strictly forbidden. It is in fact not precious hard work, it is simply walking around and taking pictures of graves. TAKE IT DOWN you ###! 42.5k. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. She manages OVER 8,600 memorials and made a ton of mistakes on my parents memorials. In other words, if the contact person is "not accepting messages, " and they do this intentionally, you won't be able to reach them, to request management control. Get those cheap skates to pay you! And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. Megan Heyl to give my son back. I have no way to access to my account. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. In my case I created a memoral 4 my Grandmother and also a memorial for a favoured child who died in infancy. This should only be about putting up memorials and helping people find their loved ones, THAT'S IT. She's also violating her fiduciary role as a "Findagrave" volunteer. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. After reading this post I know now who killed Vaudeville, Forest Lawn/LA (the cemetery of the stars) have a policy regarding photos. I dont like findagrave too. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world. I've created over a thousand memorials and thousands of photos, some were by request, others not. An alternative - Forever Missed. And almost as many gravestone photos. You wrote: 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. By CVal, 2 hours ago. Find A Grave deceptive, rip off, scam Salt Lake City, UT. Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. Many private cemeteries have banned FindAGravd's top contributor cyber ghouls from taking photos of tombstones. 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. Or at least you were, as I'm replying to this years after your post. now findagrave deletes burial records and members now. State, Local, and Tribal Governments Find contact information for state, local, and tribal governments. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. Within 5 kilometers of your location. I can only hope I outlive him, so I can reclaim my family. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. Their top contributors do not research people. waste of taxpayer money. My last name - there only 7 of us suppose to be as.Actually only 2ofbus and the rest wife and children. Ask the Community "How do I?" questions about the Find a Grave website. I have a good clue who is doing this to our flowers we leave on confederate veterans memorials. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. I'll write again to let everyone know the outcome of this. Open to both member questions and member answers. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. Like Fish1452, I only manage a very few memorials and I have been a member of [censored] for over 20 years. Send that to the person clearly outlining your direct relationship. Contact Your Local BBB Your local Better Business Bureau can assist you with finding businesses and. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" Can I charge money as a Photo Volunteer? And whats funny is that other people have links to different websites, but my entire account was REMOVED because I added a link to another grave-locating website: Now I'm convinced that these admins are evil and favor other people! No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. Billion graves have a lot of stones too. Precious hard work needs to respect copyright, do u understand, sharon haywood Resend Activation Email. However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. ----- 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. Some person going by Ladybug (member #[protected]) {note doesn't even use a REAL name, address, email, etc.} The point hasn't anything to do with the validity of Find A Grave, but rather do you want you family added to their lists and plastered all over the net. 3. Many f## people are very unfriednly, when ladybug reported you, findagrave banned you so you can NOT see anything. My lawyer has been contacted. This is not precious. Find A Grave is a free website providing access to and an opportunity to input cemetery information to an online database of cemetery records. Send Find a Grave a PM on FB and let them know you want memorials transferred. I have a person doing that with my relatives on my grandparents side of the family and he refuses to turn them over to me. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. 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 . ti's not "HARD WORK. " 2. I didnt even get an email from Find A Grave to warn me. I only record what is mentioned on the stone. The new "Complaints" page was created by the same person, Mr. Pritchard, who contributed the 13 complaints. We all have ancestors we like to memorialize. This is a warped site managed by sub human creatures that crawled out from public sewers. This is not hard work. So Ancestry is breaking Find a Grave's guidelines. Anyone who makes a free FindAGrave account can add memorial pages. That is, relatives asking that someone who lives locally go document a grave because they can't do so themselves. I don't know who took your daughter's photo (or anyone else in here). We promise not to send you any unrelated messages, Click here if youd like to unsubscribe from notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. 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. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. So contact ancestry.Com about this. Use it to search for burial information and gravestone images among the 160 million online memorials volunteers have logged at Find A Grave. Other details can be found and verified on one of the family history websites - some of which are free. send in corrections! That also shows me that this person's hobby is spending constant hours on Find a Grave for her/his number count. This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. Graves do not have copyrights either. 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. If they deny, I would then forward the email to [email protected], to request an immediate release of ownership of memorial, from current owner to you. This monitor controls about 300,000 or more memorials and is on a power trip and politics. We welcome you to Grave Matters. Stop awarding points like trophies. 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. 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 also threatened me with legal action if I took it any further. Ask for permission. And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. He was the Captain of the brig Resistance during the Revolution and was killed in action at sea north of Barbados. 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. There are spelling errors and incorrect info. based on information from your browser. 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. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. I want to add to my comment above that it is only a numbers game with a few individuals. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. 1. I gladly turn them over to family members who want to put information and pictures. 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. If a family member has asked you to remove a memorial, than you do it. 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. I have contacted Find A Grave and even submitted a copy of my birth certificate and they have done nothing. You might be surprised to know that many people find the image of their ancestor's headstone more real than a photo of them taken when they were alive. It's that easy. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. aged 43, married Ancestry has SO many complaints already, they don't want any more. Quickly search more than 180 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. That's what you want the memorials you want to control transferred to you. The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. Which legally or DNA wise is not a relation. So then what, do you expect to get paid anyway? I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. View social follower numbers, contact emails, reviews and podcasts like Grave Matters. Please enter your email and password to sign in. But when I find it, post it and notify the requestor that are overjoyed. Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. Historic Oakland Cemetery 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! True Crime. I am sure you can find another forum for that discussion. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. . Learn more about requesting management here. My Find a Grave ID is: [protected] Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? 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! She flatly refuses to give it up. 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. 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. What is the Find a Grave Community? And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? Consider it a blessing. (they are in many places) Marriages and divorces? Find a Grave states that this is against their guidelines. this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. Memorial: Mary Payne ([protected]) It has nothing to do with a grave or burial plot. Desired outcome: Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. 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. FindAGrave is pure grossess. But thanks for hijacking this thread. Author: Kalamazoo, Michigan. 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 . 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. R.L. What the hell is wrong with people. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. But unlike FindAGrave you are in control and its you who decide on what data is included in the memorial. Desired outcome: I was born in 1978 but sorry for your daughter. Choose a topic below to begin. 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]. 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. Meanwhile, I'm calling findagrave now. having headstone does not mean they can not enjoy privacy. 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. 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. People add information to the site by walking a cemetery and taking pictures, or from obituaries, other records or from information they have about family members. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. The.rational .they.r.private cemeteries and have cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Being bitter and calling people names because you are upset is wrong. Showing 1-1 | Showing Page 1 of 1. Find a Grave Team November 17, 2020 at 10:42 am Hi Marsha, please contact [email protected] and explain this situation with details and we'll look into this further. Desired outcome: if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. I have contacted them and they refuse to remove it. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? That's a lot of money. NO I DID NOT! I am absolutely revolted! 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. Not just steal. But this past month has been a nightmare. The bottom line some families just want to be left alone. 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. The "known disposition" is the key - you have to know the disposition BEFORE you add a memorial. Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect in dealing with this. I am having trouble, I manage several of my family graves and I am not able to log in and no one is returning my emails, I haven't been able to find a phone number. what is findagrave, answer me. Now the problem is that you don't have an account so there's no where to transfer the memorial to. Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. who never knew her. i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. There have been 250K claims filed against the government. We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. It is owned by Ancestry and Ancestry is not owned by the church. And, if so, where. So much unneccesary stress its to the point I consider suicide. Saying "there is no reason" is like a petulant child plugging their ears. I took a picture of that visible headstone and attach it to the memorial I did not delete someone else work that is totally disrespectful. Kind regards. Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. It's only a website. When you're visiting a cemetery, the app lets you upload inscription data and photos of graves you visit, and fulfill others' requests for pictures of their ancestors' gravesites. Owner block you. Imagine if people were making money from posting these photos. Please include the cemetery ID number or the URL to the cemetery page on Find a Grave. U can also change photos and music any time u wantno restrictions. There should be no emotional attachment on the part of a picture taker. 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. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. 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. 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 ? Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. deleting precious hard work that someone has done is very disrespectful. This comment was posted by a verified customer. Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. Kind regards, In most cases they don't. if realy so (if so). The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. Forever Missed's top package is something like $30.00 bucks. Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. 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. 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. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. There's an etiquette to these things, whether anyone follows it or not. No. But what they did do is give control to someone who claims to be related through my third great grandfathers brother. The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world's largest free online collection of burial information. I cannot get back in F.A.G. I got threatened with police action because the evil administrators refused to give my account back after it was removed. Ms. DiMarco is a complete stranger who has NO familial ties to these memorials. It is a place to record cemeteries. This account has been disabled. A Grave .Com ? My heart goes out to you. However there is not a lot that can be done about it. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. you regretted your parents and teachers who teach you every knowledge. She claims she has THE RIGHT to document what she pleases. 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. Anyone walking a cemetery can find DOB. Really? Stone doesn't last forever . On Ancestry, in the "global" index for body dispositions that are unknown, surviving relatives are mentioned on those find a grave memorial pages. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. Sometimes if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. This website uses future generations as an excuse to take photos of children, babies, adults, of all ages and post them online. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section.