dead people have no privacy (when people die privacy is gone) it's not right. Wasted my timeFind A Grave has changed a lot since it changed hands. listed divorce dates, ex spouses names and material of a more private nature our family did not want to share with the world. Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience." When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. 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? 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. Running Deer takes his memorial [protected] down. Too bad someone doesn't start a class action lawsuit against "Find A Grave." 07:27 PM. Again, it's only a website overrun by volunteers so move on. My sister's children are in their 20's they do not want to go to or see her grave. They are horrible! it's your choice to take unauthorized headstone and put on findagrave. Twice I have submitted a maiden name for a deceased relative and twice been declined - We welcome you to Grave Matters. Resend Activation Email. are you saying that STEALING PEOPLE HEADSTONE WITHOUT AUTHORIZE IS CALLED PRECIOUS HARD WORK 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. deleting precious hard work that someone has done is very disrespectful. Do not bring up respect when you yourself seem to have never even processed the topic. There are spelling errors and incorrect info. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. They are supposed to transfer but don't. Findagrave is a profitable business. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. I am sure you can find another forum for that discussion. The mechanics do not work like you were brainwashed to believe. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. We all have ancestors we like to memorialize. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com It's totally against what their mission is. Ask the Community. So much unneccesary stress its to the point I consider suicide. Find a Grave used a photo of me for someone else. They do nothing about it. 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. However, if you can provide me with a suitable certificate ,then I will make your change and attribute it to yourself. 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. My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. Added almost 3000 memorials. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. the important is all funeral and headstone photos must be authorized and legitimate and the owner let you use. Find A Grave - Access to findagrave and a complaint about a comment left on a findagrave page. There are many kind and helpful people on F/A/G. A trojan virus downloaded onto my computer when I was on Find A Grave and clicked on a family name within a memorial. Not just steal. Read full review of Find A Grave and 1 comment. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. Find a Grave has the right to delete any User, for any reason. ----- 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. And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? Nothing is sacred here. Please reset your password. Well, Sharon Haywood, many of the volunteers here don't even hold an ounce of respect when they do this. Sad life when people have nothing better to do with their time. 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. Why would anyone think it's OK to post biographical information like this about an 8 year old? Desired outcome: It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. This appears to be especially true for African American individuals and other individuals deemed to be not important enough, I am guessing. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. When posting pictures it is proper to cite the owner of the photograph. Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. They just would not listen. Find A Grave is eventually going to be sued and it will undoubtedly take down the site and their business. Complaint Experience N/A Complaint Resolution Index (CRI) Membership Information The rationale: They do not want a resting place for the dead to be devourered by FindAGrave's cyber knowitall undertakers. When I started genealogy research 2 years ago I was grateful to find information on loved ones. 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. FindAGrave has more than 154 million memorials on its site and is a valuable research tool. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. 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. And yes, they are a husband-wife . You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. She refused. Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. 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. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. Interesting. I was wondering if they shut down. but you know sir. If u r family or tourists u can take photos. No. However she has not had a burial service, I'm looking at her urn right now and her obituary stated "private internment held at a later date". If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line The emotional stress this is causing my family is tremendous ! To a point, I don't blame him. BBB Scam Tracker Still Need Assistance? Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! Open to both member questions and member answers. 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. Wow! When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. 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]. Most of us do it to honor your family member and to ensure in 100 years, their descents have a way to feel more connected. John married Eliza (or Elizabeth) Moody at St Ann, Belfast, Northern Ireland on Christmas Eve 1864. 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. STRONGLY Agree. They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. I have been a member of find a grave since it first started. 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. The person who took my great grandfathers memorial has captured over 50,000 souls and she cannot do a simple favor! It is purely disgusting what they do, I understand the bit of finding relatives and such, however adding details like that is just revolting. unless you really know that person We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. You must include a valid cemetery ID or URL. I tried to inform Find A Gave of the issue but to no avail. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may contact the customer support team. 3. Ancestry has SO many complaints already, they don't want any more. But why bother. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. Was unaware of postings for my 8 year old daughter and recently deceased mother-in-law. If so, we already had this talk. 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 ? IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? Ms. DiMarco is a complete stranger who has NO familial ties to these memorials. The bottom-lineNot every family wants to be part of "Find A Grave's internet kingdom." Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. Next disgusting is a point of view. Their top contributors do not research people. 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. Why? this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. You wrote: Man it's their photo not your photo. R.L. putting undead people photo on die site. Nothing has changed and no one has contacted me regarding the matter. If prehistoric or unmarked burials are encountered, stop work immediately and contact the THC's Archeology Division for advice at 512-463-6096, or archeology@thc.texas.gov. If you have information that would help us update details about a cemetery on the site, please let us know. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. The free plan is basic. Review the Help section for answers to the most common questions. All in all, I will say it again. Users upload photos of headstones and memorials, transcriptions of engravings, biographical information and links to family members. So contact ancestry.Com about this. Findagrave does not relinquish hold on a memorial when their representative is not reachable to contact. Not happy about it. I am not going to get into a long heated debate with anyone on here so let me get that out of the way first. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. I don't see the anguish. I can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. To use this feature, use a newer browser. She manages OVER 8,600 memorials and made a ton of mistakes on my parents memorials. We had collected written history of his life and contributions to Montgomery county Md. theft is wrong. I told her I would not give her the death notice or pictures, she harassed me and it was done anyway without our knowledge. You can always change this later in your Account settings. their own unique way of cataloging data. Nuff said. If you spend gas and money doing this on your own, tough [censored], you can't complain about anything, YOU CHOSE to do the work, get over it. This person will not answer my emails and the police have located him. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. Find a Grave is an online community project. Celine McKay Failure of Wendy Ebenstein Norman to transfer my grandfather's Memorial Page to me, after numerous requests. View social follower numbers, contact emails, reviews and podcasts like Grave Matters. Now the problem is that you don't have an account so there's no where to transfer the memorial to. I don't see the point in the complaint. After reading this post I know now who killed Vaudeville, Forest Lawn/LA (the cemetery of the stars) have a policy regarding photos. Grave Matters Chuck and Kristy Robinett. Editor's Review: Find A Grave is a free resource for finding burial places and headstones around the world. For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. For the record I am 75 years old and thinks it pretty [censored]ty of FindAGrave to respond in such a way. I want to RIP. Good luck ! compete on how many records make is useless. They steal my records, my photos and basically my deceased family. True Crime. 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. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. Not even the ones I paid to sponsor! It's definitely not a contest. You can suggest additions or corrections and the manager can choose to use those to improve the memorial. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. FindAGrave Administrators- Caleb, Mikenna, and Amber. BS..Find A Grave is a hang out for graveyard ghouls. These so called "major contributors" also post family photos they have swiped from the net. 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. 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. I never heard back so it's still there. God forbid you had a famous relative? Do u know. Desired outcome: Sharon Haywood. There's an etiquette to these things, whether anyone follows it or not. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. I even put in for a forgot password thinking I had it wrong and I don't even get a email to reset it. Yes Virginia. All the information I had compiled on John Hanson Gassaway2 . Find a Grave is connected to Ancestry. I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. 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. Instead, FindAGrave turned the memorial over to one of their major contributors, a Megan Heyl on the grounds she was the expert concerning my family. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? THAT's THE REAL DISHONOR. I am not dead, yet! Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. FINDAGRAVE and ANCESTRY.COM are owned by the same people. If anyone asks me to remove their family members headstone I will gladly do so, if you can prove you are a direct relative. There are two types of Memorials you can create..the basic similar to Find A Grave is free. they suspended you like how they suspended me right today. It is a place to record cemeteries. I didnt even get an email from Find A Grave to warn me. Like Fish1452, I only manage a very few memorials and I have been a member of [censored] for over 20 years. This is totally wrong. I take GREAT pride in linking people with their deceased family members to connect these families, piece them back together, after death. Ask the Community "How do I?" questions about the Find a Grave website. So I'm VERY CURIOUS. #HYPOCRITES, Desired outcome: There was a problem getting your location. Findagrave sucks. 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. She means, if she goes around grave, to glorify herself and her findagrave records. The person who has invaded my family's privacy has created 55 thousand of these things. Personal Services: Find A Grave. 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 who never knew her. That sucks. We have set your language to Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. What is the Find a Grave Community? Some important ways to determine whether a cemetery exists on a particular tract of land include: (1) checking old deeds and property records; (2) checking old maps; (3) talking with long-time local residents; (4) searching for sunken areas on the property that seem to be oriented east to west; (5) looking for Vinca minor (cemetery ivy) and (6) Why do you care so much? The person who stole them claims to be related although they arent and they have never met any of my family. If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. That also shows me that this person's hobby is spending constant hours on Find a Grave for her/his number count. 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. 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 is true even on Newspapers.com (also owned by Ancestry). Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. While the gravesite or plot is purchased and owned by the person who will be buried there, or by a family member as needed when someone passes, it cannot be sold (thus it is not property owned). 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. I dont like findagrave too. To find cemetery records for New York in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps: Go to the FamilySearch Catalog Enter: New York in the Place box Click on: Search Click on: Cemeteries To search for cemeteries at the county level follow directions below Go to the FamilySearch Catalog Enter: New York in the Place box Click on: Search 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 if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. 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. I don't see the point in the complaint. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section. Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. By CVal, 2 hours ago. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. 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. Truly pathetic. people would mistaken that she had died. As a young man he joined. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. . So when someone dies; and their obituary states that they were predeceased by their parents and their spouse, the only way to find their relatives is through an obituary search. God Speed. Find and visit a loved one's final resting place anywhere, anytime. MANY people are SEARCHING for their relatives, and they can not afford to fly to every cemetery in AmericaThank God people CARE ENOUGH to go to the cemeteries and take pictures, and post them on the ONLY FREE SITE of it's kind, find a grave! Find A Grave is one of the free resources online that you can tap into to get the clues that you are after. Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. No, that's not what it means. I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. Ask for permission. That's life. that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. 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. The family moved to the Mohawk Community in Greene County when Tom was three years old because the Norris Dam took their farm. Graves do not have copyrights either. And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. In many cases the correct markers can't be located or definitely identified, especially when they are old. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. 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. 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 understand you way too well, and I am so sorry that they lack enough common sense to put that sort of private information up online. 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. 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. Not you wish to steal you go steal, then claim that photo is own by yourself. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. They play upon emotion. Action, and change of name on Memorial or transfer to myself so I can put pertinent information on the Memorial. 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. Desired outcome: STOP HOLDING MY GRANDPARENTS MEMORIALS HOSTAGE ! "Tom" Carpenter, age 84, passed from life to eternal life on Wednesday. Or at least you were, as I'm replying to this years after your post. I could not have been able to see my fathers grave plot at all. My estranged sister became Manager on my fathers site and added a nickname to his name on the site. Choose a topic below to begin. they think that, if your photo is put there, you will die fast. He must of went through the grave yard and saw this grave with my nephews middle name and last name on his temporary marker. Many f## people are very unfriednly, when ladybug reported you, findagrave banned you so you can NOT see anything. So then what, do you expect to get paid anyway? Use this form for website feedback and suggestions to improve how the website works. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. Don't buy into it. They typically do that when a member has a long history of violating their site policies. Hey James, So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? I live in central Va. and my father's plot is in Elliott City, there . if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. Some families just want 2 be left alone without rehashing family ties. TeeJLee, What process? 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. + Locate grave sites of your loved ones through . But these body chasers today don't even wait until after the funeral to post the memorial, I have had people steal watermarked photos i personally took and posted of my loved ones and they add them to other ancestry sites and pretend they are their own or they post them to totally different people. Delete anything you don't want. send in corrections! They need to be documented while they still exist so future family members can honor their memory too. So Ancestry is breaking Find a Grave's guidelines. Oftentimes, there is information about about other members of that persons family included. 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 .

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