Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. This is true even on Newspapers.com (also owned by Ancestry). Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. 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! Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. I can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. It's that easy. It's only a website. Please include the cemetery ID number or the URL to the cemetery page on Find a Grave. This is wrong! Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. Ask for permission. True Crime. My lawyer has been contacted. Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. Salt Lake City UT. In many cases the correct markers can't be located or definitely identified, especially when they are old. I hate it that Find A Grave's eager beavers invades family privacy by creating various memorials with links 2'other branches without permission from the family. Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. I have helped many people find long lost ancestors from several generations back with many not knowing where their ancestors were buried. I feel it is their family member and they should be allowed to honor them. So what does that tell you about this person with over 1, 000, 000 memorials added? We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. Owner block you. the dead person family (headstone person family or friend) can report to findagrave that you are unauthorized then your burial record on that person will be deleted immediately. send in corrections! These so called "major contributors" also post family photos they have swiped from the net. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but yes I have been there, and what your feeling now, will not be shared by other relatives 50 years from now as they look at your daughters memorial. It is a disgusting desecration on my sister's grave and memory! so, u guys can also see that, steal people family/friend funeral is stupid. this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. 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. 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. Desired outcome: 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. 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. 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. For the record I am 75 years old and thinks it pretty [censored]ty of FindAGrave to respond in such a way. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. 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. Although, I bet you could associate ANY activity as a contest - you seem to have a GIANT chip on your shoulder about this. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. Mostly we are retired in any case. All the information I had compiled on John Hanson Gassaway2 . I don't see the point in the complaint. - had parents of someone posted in the wrong cemetery, so I photocopied the page from the cemetery book & posted it on the pages for her parents to show correct place of burial, Ladybug threw a fit, reported me & I got the boot; Ladybug was rude as heck to me in several emails, but I guess that doesnt matter. In memory of your daughter, why don't you start a family tree of your own, for your relatives and descendants to enjoy. Review the Help section for answers to the most common questions. No. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. 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. 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 nobody would really be happy with findagrave anymore.! if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. Imagine if people were making money from posting these photos. They stated I was 'harassing' them, despite me trying to calm the situation to get my account restored. This person stalks and harasses me by following my flowers i leave on thousands of memorials. now findagrave deletes burial records and members now. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some Can I charge money as a Photo Volunteer? FuryH, It is essentially a long term lease from the cemetery. I have been asking for four years for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman - Find a Grave ID [protected] to transfer William Ambrose Kogomo Sky-Eagle Sr. Memorial ID [protected] to me. However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. Nasty sorry this happened to you it certainly shouldnt happened. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! Failure of Wendy Ebenstein Norman to transfer my grandfather's Memorial Page to me, after numerous requests. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. Saying "there is no reason" is like a petulant child plugging their ears. We are not associated with the cemetery and don't have any information beyond what the community has added. Jul 19 2017. I have been a member of FindaGrave for many years. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. I probably could get it back if I bought Megan Heyl a cart load of cheezos. see that photo on findagrave site. Not you wish to steal you go steal, then claim that photo is own by yourself. STRONGLY Agree. There should be no emotional attachment on the part of a picture taker. I don't see the point in the complaint. 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. The information is public, online or not. Ruby is right. I have been a member of find a grave since it first started. I can only hope I outlive him, so I can reclaim my family. Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. They play upon emotion. I know this person and his family . Take William Butten's find-a-grave memorial. And, if so, where. All this and more with just a few taps. Grave Matters Chuck and Kristy Robinett. I have contacted them and they refuse to remove it. Concerns Anne McKay buried in Templeogue cemetery,Dublin,Ireland- date of death 13 February 1962. Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: 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. That is, relatives asking that someone who lives locally go document a grave because they can't do so themselves. 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. Stop awarding points like trophies. The information on six posts are false and falsely placed according to statements of family and or records listed. It is a place to record cemeteries. She said "you can not ruin people precious hard work" which makes me underlook her. Well, Sharon Haywood, many of the volunteers here don't even hold an ounce of respect when they do this. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. The bottom line some families just want to be left alone. Please wait a few minutes and try again. 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. My heart goes out to you. Desired outcome: He died on 16 Nov 1620 aboard the Mayflower, a fact which you can easily validate with a Bing search. Yet the "manager" of this site refuses to correct the error after I informed them that I'm a family member and provided them with a link to the named cemetery which lists the names of all individuals buried there. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line This is not hard work. they suspended you like how they suspended me right today. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. I've created over a thousand memorials and thousands of photos, some were by request, others not. Mormons view of religion is a little different than Western thought. 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. I dont like findagrave too. I am wandering am I, going to have to pay Ancestery .Com now for all the info that was suppose to be free on find. Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. Historic Oakland Cemetery Find A Grave should monitor this kind of behavior, and if those people refuse to follow the rules, then they should be banned. 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. and your account will be suspended. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. I cannot get back in F.A.G. It is purely disgusting what they do, I understand the bit of finding relatives and such, however adding details like that is just revolting. Chuck's claim to fame is being an expert at useless knowledge. I told her I would not give her the death notice or pictures, she harassed me and it was done anyway without our knowledge. If someone was cremated and the ashes given to someone, there is no cemetery. With no regard for the family Megan Heyl also added time sensitive material that is really none of her business i.e. My advice.. But thanks for hijacking this thread. I had my fathers memorial, my grandfathers, my grandmother, my great grand parents stolen from my control by someone who isn't related. BBB Scam Tracker Still Need Assistance? Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. 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. I think it's very selfish to want to keep them to yourself. Like Fish1452, I only manage a very few memorials and I have been a member of [censored] for over 20 years. family or friends can call findagrave to delete unallowed photographs on their family/friend's tombstones. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? God bless you all ! Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. 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. 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. 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. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. 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 And They do not need member ID or profile link. just disappeared ? 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. Again, it's only a website overrun by volunteers so move on. Find a Grave states that this is against their guidelines. ti's not "HARD WORK. " Use it to search for burial information and gravestone images among the 160 million online memorials volunteers have logged at Find A Grave. 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. 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. The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customers satisfaction. If a family member has asked you to remove a memorial, than you do it. When I confronted this whale of a whale to relinquished ownership and return the memorial back to me I was banned. Why? It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. The actual property is owned by the cemetery or county/state and what you, me and the rest of the world "owns" is the space set aside for our loved ones. FindAGrave also threatened me with legal action if I took it any further. 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. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but yes I have been there, and what your feeling now, will not be shared by other relatives 50 years from now as they look at your daughters memorial with love or to research their kin. are you saying that STEALING PEOPLE HEADSTONE WITHOUT AUTHORIZE IS CALLED PRECIOUS HARD WORK They're making a tidy bundle off of your work. 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. Complaining usually happens in the wake of a negative. The faithful go there to have extended families, extended spouses and an eternity of children/ For those who don't make it there a lower levela work camp of sorts kind of like a purgatory. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Kind regards, Speaking for myself the answer is NO. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? We welcome you to Grave Matters. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. Send that to the person clearly outlining your direct relationship. However, I owe much to volunteers on the site who have posted information that I would never have been able to obtain without a major roadtrip with a quick visit to the website. It is both hurtful and embarrassing to family members. Billion graves have a lot of stones too. REMOVE THE SUBJECT MEMORIAL: [protected], This person Brenda Beatty McGraw, working for Find a Grave constantly documents false vital statistics concerning my family tree. All in all, I will say it again. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? You create a Memorial for a deceased loved one. Desired outcome: Then you are suspended. This monitor controls about 300,000 or more memorials and is on a power trip and politics. Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report This experience is similar. Send Find a Grave a PM on FB and let them know you want memorials transferred. Megan Heyl to give my son back. She claims she has THE RIGHT to document what she pleases. (They want to email Ms. DiMarco to ask if shes related to MY grandparents). The person who has invaded my family's privacy has created 55 thousand of these things. it's your choice to take unauthorized headstone and put on findagrave. Many contain personal info that many families wish 2 keep private. Approximately 1 Reports Found. This is totally wrong. . Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. I want to add to my comment above that it is only a numbers game with a few individuals. IF IT BOTHERS YOU, GO FIND THE BURIAL YOURSELF IF YOU THINK IT"S EASY. 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. findagrave can no longer secure any dead grave names. 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. 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". Back then it was a site consisting of records of celebrities and their burial sites. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. 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. She means, if she goes around grave, to glorify herself and her findagrave records. i tried to explain the situation but they stopped replying. Get those cheap skates to pay you! I've done a small number of photo requests from the site at a local cemetery.