Then rebaptize the dead into the Mormon faith. You create a Memorial for a deceased loved one. So I'm VERY CURIOUS. It is a numbers game and there is no effort put into true research, the bios are limited if they even provide one. Truly pathetic. Added almost 3000 memorials. Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. Editor's Review: Find A Grave is a free resource for finding burial places and headstones around the world. The whole point of a grave stone is to publicly honor the person's life. I've got 10 memorials, TEN, and have been a member for 14 years on Find a Grave. It's totally against what their mission is. Find a Grave - Online Search. 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. If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. My response is that there are too many members on Find A Grave who do NOT follow the rules. Precious hard work needs to respect copyright, do u understand, sharon haywood She said "you can not ruin people precious hard work" which makes me underlook her. This is wrong! My estranged sister became Manager on my fathers site and added a nickname to his name on the site. I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. Many Find A Grave ghouls r also members of ancestry . Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. If u persist you are banned for harassing the top contributor who now manages the Memorial "you" created. 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. their own unique way of cataloging data. 1, Report #1386798. 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. When confronted they claim they r performing.a service if families want it or not. All this and more with just a few taps. 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. Why would anyone think it's OK to post biographical information like this about an 8 year old? #HYPOCRITES, Desired outcome: You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. dead person family can still object if they dont want. 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. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. I want to RIP. That Find a Grave be consistent. Historic Oakland Cemetery Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'. Approximately 1 Reports Found. that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. In most cases they don't. Sometimes if you ask nicely, someone will comply with your wishes. Sharon, if I may say, you are ridiculous. 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. Imagine if people were making money from posting these photos. They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. 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. Desired outcome: 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. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. SO HELP OUT! I really do not care what other people think, or if it is public record. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. 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. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. Review the Help section for answers to the most common questions. ^^^^^Seems to me that they are taking advantage of the people doing the photography. As for Obit's find a grave dose say not to add names of living family members but some people still add them. But thanks for hijacking this thread. You really don't need all the drama FindAGrave's hierarchy throws in your face. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. 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. Most likely FindAGrave will also threaten u with law enforcement for stalking in addition to legal action. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. I don't know who took your daughter's photo (or anyone else in here). 1. I am the last of my family and I even submitted a copy of my birth certificate showing relation. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. She means, if she goes around grave, to glorify herself and her findagrave records. And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? My heart goes out to you. Why do you care so much? I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. Nasty sorry this happened to you it certainly shouldnt happened. So contact ancestry.Com about this. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. If you are having problems with your account or have questions about content on the site, please use the Account Question or Support Request option. I do not care how many countless hours "Find A Grave's cyber ghouls put into it. nobody would really be happy with findagrave anymore.! Anne Maher McKay Some person going by Ladybug (member #[protected]) {note doesn't even use a REAL name, address, email, etc.} Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line There are ads on most pages from which they make revenue, and they charge family members to remove the ads from their loved one's profile. now findagrave deletes burial records and members now. If anyone asks me to remove their family members headstone I will gladly do so, if you can prove you are a direct relative. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" A guy named NEMIS is mad at me because he owned a memorial by the name of "Marcel Loubens" which is supposed to be listed as a famous memorial. But when I find it, post it and notify the requestor that are overjoyed. 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). If that means I have a rock to mark my burial site, so be it. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. To use this feature, use a newer browser. There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. I too thought that direct family should include aunts and uncles. If the family wants their relatives and has proved the relationship, then their request should be honored. The site stores over 120 million grave records, providing plenty of material. Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. The day of publicly available data is here and increases daily. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. 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. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. 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. I have a good clue who is doing this to our flowers we leave on confederate veterans memorials. now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. Hey James, from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin 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. Janet, directly under the memorial's information, select 'suggest edits'. The person who took my great grandfathers memorial has captured over 50,000 souls and she cannot do a simple favor! Historical Society. Billion graves have a lot of stones too. 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. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! 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. First, if you already asked Wendy to transfer the memorial to you and she ignored you, I would recommend contacting support@findagrave.com (if you already didn't) and ask them to give the memorial to you. R.L. 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. Learn how to play nice. The family moved to the Mohawk Community in Greene County when Tom was three years old because the Norris Dam took their farm. Chuck's claim to fame is being an expert at useless knowledge. Nothing is sacred here. All because they are not respectful of families and not responsible for the content. When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. I could not have been able to see my fathers grave plot at all. A system error has occurred. There is a problem with your email/password. This appears to be especially true for African American individuals and other individuals deemed to be not important enough, I am guessing. Best wishes, I thank them for their time and move on. Unlike Western thought Mormons do not believe in a trinity and some deny Christ as the son of God. How ridiculous! The information is public, online or not. 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. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. This comment was posted by a verified customer. 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. how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. better not put personal photos online(esp girl naked photos). If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line + Locate grave sites of your loved ones through . The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. Anyone walking a cemetery can find DOB. Celine McKay Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. We all have ancestors we like to memorialize. I can see that people have different points of few, but some posts here have been rather tackless, almost cruel and cruel. putting undead people photo on die site. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. It is a disgusting desecration on my sister's grave and memory! Your second argument of unknown dispositions do not make sense, especially in the cases of my and Eddie Jones' Reviews. Desired outcome: They play on emotions. So what does that tell you about this person with over 1, 000, 000 memorials added? Forms, by Agency Find a U.S. federal government form by choosing the agency that publishes it. The emotional stress this is causing my family is tremendous ! Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. We can resolve this issue. 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 ? 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. you are lucky enough to find findagrave steal your daughter photo but it's just a fortune you find out, many people online may use your daughter photos already. Ms. DiMarco is a complete stranger who has NO familial ties to these memorials. 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. "Tom" Carpenter, age 84, passed from life to eternal life on Wednesday. Not true. If they deny, I would then forward the email to support@findagrave.com, to request an immediate release of ownership of memorial, from current owner to you. Youll find helpful information about your account here or you can use this form to send us questions about account issues. They are more interested in grabbing a tombstone in hopes of getting brownie points. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. 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 If you don't like it, just log off. It is invasion of privacy, and simply does not follow any morals. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com So I am very sorry for your loss, as I still have not gotten over mine, fortunately for me, I now have a nine year old granddaughter from my Open to both member questions and member answers. Please reset your password. That is, relatives asking that someone who lives locally go document a grave because they can't do so themselves. 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. TAKE IT DOWN you ###! Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. If you have information that would help us update details about a cemetery on the site, please let us know. I noticed that this "TeeJLee" person likes to read reviews from complaintsboard, take out a small piece of the review he doesn't agree with or can easily rebute against, and reply to the reviewer's complaint with full-out nonsense and insult. 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. Author: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Don't buy into it. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. An alternative - Forever Missed. FindAGrave Administrators- Caleb, Mikenna, and Amber. For some cemeteries, it is against their policy to allow pic taking/give plot info to non-family for security/privacy purposes. Not true! Sad, because I do not want to return to the site now. Resend Activation Email. It is a place to record cemeteries. God forbid you had a famous relative? I've been sent many messages of great thanks for doing so, including from many adoptees. You are entitled to what I deem a distasteful opinion that I (and others) am gathering "awards" and "trophies", have lost "all sense of humanity and compassion", and am a "body chaser". My comment is not directed at those who do it for their own genealogy or add friends. Please try again later. I am absolutely revolted! Chances are you will find the cemetery you are looking for. 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 was born in 1978 but sorry for your daughter. If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. 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. You will get no place arguing with FindAGrave's hierarchy or major contributors. This is not hard work. Find A Grave - Has no check against rampant fraud. listed divorce dates, ex spouses names and material of a more private nature our family did not want to share with the world. Findagrave is gross and obscene. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. just disappeared ? Find A Grave reviews & complaints 68 complaints 2 resolved 66 unresolved File a complaint Table of contents Claim listing Follow Share Complaints Contacts FAQ Find A Grave reviews 68 F FuryH of Indianapolis, GB Feb 13, 2023 7:51 am EST Verified customer Memorials and photo Ghouls Also F.A.G says they award points, so beef with them. who never knew her. we are adults providing precious information to those who cannot visit a grave site. i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. I can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. This is a warped site managed by sub human creatures that crawled out from public sewers. Use it to search for burial information and gravestone images among the 160 million online memorials volunteers have logged at Find A Grave. 2. Concerns Anne McKay buried in Templeogue cemetery,Dublin,Ireland- date of death 13 February 1962. As for it being private, we all are public knowledge now and after we die. When a member will not relinquish a memorial to a direct family member (as stated in the rules), then they are breaking the rules and they should loose their privilege to use Find A Grave. That's a lot of money. I am also a member of Ancestry which owns FindaGrave, yet there has been no correction and no help. By CVal, 2 hours ago. 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 . "Find A Grave" thrives on harvesting cemetery data with no regard to family wishes. Sometimes someone doesn't live up to our expectations. They are supposed to transfer but don't. this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. If I was that person whose picture is there I would be very upset. To suggest an update, go to the memorial and click the Suggest Edits button below the birth and death information. The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. Ruby is right. All I can add is just be respectful, if someone asks you to transfer a family member or asks you to take something down, I would go ahead and do it. I use it to the best of my ability to help others. Every one listen, this website is a blessing to everyone that's on it, it was put here to view memorials and find peace. Ask for permission. This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. If is is not removed by Friday June 3rd 2022 there will be action taken against ancestry and find a grave. I have sent this person several messages and no response there will be action taken against her too. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? actually you should not find ladybug person. If you have specific examples, please forward those in the email to us. IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? What is the Find a Grave Community? i tried to explain the situation but they stopped replying. Create a findagrave.com account and then click "suggest edits" and then there will be an option to request management of the memorial. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. I have no way to access to my account. They don't care if their site is riddled with viruses and unsuspecting computer catch it. (they are in many places) Marriages and divorces? or "PRECIOUS HARD WORK" When burial details are unknown, Ancestry has a "global" index for this. When I protested FindAGrave blocked my isp and booted me out. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. The new "Complaints" page was created by the same person, Mr. Pritchard, who contributed the 13 complaints. I have complained to Find A Grave several times about misinformation on my family site (father, grandfather, grandmother and great grandparents) and use of their head stones without my permission. because if her friends/her classmates/classmates parents. Do you want your child forgotten? 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. 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. Voila! send in corrections! A trojan virus downloaded onto my computer when I was on Find A Grave and clicked on a family name within a memorial. Find a Grave used a photo of me for someone else. This person stalks and harasses me by following my flowers i leave on thousands of memorials. This is totally wrong. Yes Virginia. 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. So, NO the I wouldn't trust anyone who did genealogy research using Find A Grave. son. 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. Oftentimes, there is information about about other members of that persons family included. Send Find a Grave a PM on FB and let them know you want memorials transferred. Its directed at those whos compulsion is to have as many as they can for their own greedy ego. He was the Captain of the brig Resistance during the Revolution and was killed in action at sea north of Barbados. And if we are being honest, in the moments of grief and loss no one wants to look like an *** by taking a photo at the funeral and the pain families struggle with for weeks, months and even years later prevent most families from ever doing it. If someone was cremated and the ashes given to someone, there is no cemetery. I feel this infringes on my privacy, copyright laws and personal property of mine being placed on the internet for advertising purposes. 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. Weve updated the security on the site. Speaking for myself the answer is NO. By scanning the Internet, you can find and save more than 180 million graves worldwide. All that info is gone now! They were being my managed by Patsy Lubben DiMarco who IGNORES transfer requests. family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. Please wait a few minutes and try again. I understand why it is a blessing to some people, however it does in fact invade the privacy of many families. I feel sorry for you, and I can understand about feeling like you have been exploited.At the same time though if It had not been for find a grave .com. 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. STRONGLY Agree. 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. This browser does not support getting your location. Nuff said. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. It's that simple. Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. especially those from earlier days. @, no one has to ask permission to photograph a headstone. Action, and change of name on Memorial or transfer to myself so I can put pertinent information on the Memorial. The other ad location that I have a problem with is the one at the end of the memorial which relegates the memorial owner/contributor ("created by") to the bottom of the page . Wasted my timeFind A Grave has changed a lot since it changed hands. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. I only record what is mentioned on the stone. We have set your language to 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! BEWARE of this websites. I assume this means that they can't transfer the memorial to family members, because you didn't mention that (Which was pretty much, the whole point of the complaint). Graves do not have copyrights either. 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. If you do not want others to see you name or your daughter's do not put it on the stone. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. The person who has invaded my family's privacy has created 55 thousand of these things. My advice.. These ghouls harvest photos from non private trees and then post the info on Find A Grave. NO I DID NOT! For more than 15 years we have helped nearly 50000 customers resolve their issues and will never stop striving to ensure further improvements on our platform for a better communication between companies and customers. 3. Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report 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. Man it's their photo not your photo. posts. Although, I bet you could associate ANY activity as a contest - you seem to have a GIANT chip on your shoulder about this. Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. And Nothing was ever done.