For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some TeeJLee, From my and others' experience, findagrave sends messages via every email. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. And we are all volunteers. You really don't need all the drama FindAGrave's hierarchy throws in your face. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. 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. 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. Your second argument of unknown dispositions do not make sense, especially in the cases of my and Eddie Jones' Reviews. 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 This comment was posted by a verified customer. Oftentimes, there is information about about other members of that persons family included. By CVal, 2 hours ago. I could not have been able to see my fathers grave plot at all. But unlike FindAGrave you are in control and its you who decide on what data is included in the memorial. My complaint was with those who rush to submit the memorial as soon as they can-whether they have any connection to the person, the cemetery, or the general area. If so, we already had this talk. People add information about cemeteries to the site to help identify the final disposition information of people buried there. If you have information that would help us update details about a cemetery on the site, please let us know. It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. That's obscene. 1, Report #1386798. see that photo on findagrave site. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: FINDAGRAVE and ANCESTRY.COM are owned by the same people. Nothing has changed and no one has contacted me regarding the matter. I've done a small number of photo requests from the site at a local cemetery. 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 ? you have no right to privacy. You don't not belong on complaintsboard. Weve updated the security on the site. Now the problem is that you don't have an account so there's no where to transfer the memorial to. their family and freinds HAD EVERY RIGHTS TO ASK FINDAGRAVE REMOVE THAT RECORD. I have a good clue who is doing this to our flowers we leave on confederate veterans memorials. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. The pay version is a one time 30 bucks. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. I wish you good luck and I hope they've taken it down, I sincerely apologize for what you must be/have been going through/went through. 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. My Find a Grave ID is: [protected] so please everyone do not turn this beautiful website into a horror story. Not just steal. Be aware, many of these idiots will NOT give you management and when you contact findagrave.com they don't care. I really do not care what other people think, or if it is public record. Although, I bet you could associate ANY activity as a contest - you seem to have a GIANT chip on your shoulder about this. 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". What the hell is wrong with people. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. Sharon, if I may say, you are ridiculous. Review the Help section for answers to the most common questions. Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. Sometimes if you ask nicely, someone will comply with your wishes. And Nothing was ever done. 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. For some cemeteries, it is against their policy to allow pic taking/give plot info to non-family for security/privacy purposes. Plan to go early in the day, in case it takes you a while to find the exact location. 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. Not happy about it. Anne Maher McKay If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. My name is Bill Sky-Eagle. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. My problem is with the company who does not do a better job of arbitrating with people who want to hoard other people's relatives. When I checked, I fond that somebody already did and the info is all wrong as well. . 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. When burial details are unknown, Ancestry has a "global" index for this. 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. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. I only post a headstone photo that I personally have taken and sometimes link a person to a spouse. However, if you can provide me with a suitable certificate ,then I will make your change and attribute it to yourself. My comment is not directed at those who do it for their own genealogy or add friends. If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. Did you include a link to your profile or your member number? Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. Also sending me arrogant emails in response to my disapproval. Search 502,691 cemeteries in 243 different countries. Owner block you. To a point, I don't blame him. 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. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Find A Grave is a database of known final dispositions. A findagrave monitor is removing our confederate veterans tokens of respect and replacing them with hideous looking fake purple violets. Nothing has been done and I'm upset! So, it's a crap shoot, but some do turn them over. I don't know who took your daughter's photo (or anyone else in here). I told her I would not give her the death notice or pictures, she harassed me and it was done anyway without our knowledge. Delete anything you don't want. 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. based on information from your browser. Many f## people are very unfriednly, when ladybug reported you, findagrave banned you so you can NOT see anything. having headstone does not mean they can not enjoy privacy. I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. 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. As a result, misspelled names, incorrect dates of birth and dates of death, unrelated family members and the list goes on, are written in these memorials. @, no one has to ask permission to photograph a headstone. 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. So, NO the I wouldn't trust anyone who did genealogy research using Find A Grave. If someone complains about an individual contributor to Find a Grave, Find a Grave will pick on that contributor through the use of some type of monitoring technology. The day of publicly available data is here and increases daily. Historical Society. A gentleman named John has added the below message concerning my mother.I and my brothers and sisters would like this to be deleted out of respect for our mother.I don't accept that an outsider can access documents and without family consent write what they deem necessary.We cannot even contact this John.Would you please delete this information.There is a family behind this message and who live to this very day thinking of their mother who was taken from them so early in life.Authorisation was not given for this message to be inserted. Click here to get notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. There is a problem with your email/password. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. I looked at this persons profile and it showed this person had over 1, 000.000 memorials posted, only been a member for 5 years. unlist the current cemetery. 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. We are no longer private people. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin I do it because it helps many people to feel closer to a loved one. Imagine if people were making money from posting these photos. especially those from earlier days. NO I DID NOT! We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a Most people defending this site use finding a passed family member from hundreds of years ago as an excuse, and I understand that, however I do not understand that they take pictures of children only recently passed. i 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. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. If you don't like it, just log off. And They do not need member ID or profile link. Take William Butten's find-a-grave memorial. Find A Grave has many untrue information. FindAGrave is 4 bored people who gave up all their vices have nothing better to do than being cyber undertakers and stick their nose I'm everyone's business. Hey James, That sucks. Running Deer takes his memorial [protected] down. My one complaint with Findagrave is that they apparently allow people to put up memorials when they have no idea where or if the person was buried. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. this fraud is a sociopathic means of lying and a person getting their false praise and getting money for their prostitution. cemeteries found in Pimpama, Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. Do you want your child forgotten? Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It's that easy. Some people do not want their family members in the site, and its not your God-given right as a volunteer to ignore that. They're making a tidy bundle off of your work. Are you upset with public death certificates published online? This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? Billion graves have a lot of stones too. When confronted they claim they r performing.a service if families want it or not. 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. FindAGrave also threatened me with legal action if I took it any further. Anyone walking a cemetery can find DOB. Desired outcome: When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. Ask the Community "How do I?" questions about the Find a Grave website. I also discussed talking to attorney to see if I could get some type of restraining order to prohibit my grave site from appearing on ###. Mostly we are retired in any case. Is this your company? especially towards Chinese superstitious people. this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. This browser does not support getting your location. As someone who does genealogy work I find Find a Grave invaluable. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. From there this dysfunctional woman took over my mother's memorial in addition to the already 50,000 memorials she has under her belt. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. 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. There are very few privately owned cemeteries in the US. Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. 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. I asked for a transfer but got NO RESPONSE. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. 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. And yes, they are a husband-wife . Like Fish1452, I only manage a very few memorials and I have been a member of [censored] for over 20 years. Explore All Topics and Services on USA.gov Top Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Many people enjoy walking through cemeteries and taking pictures. Desired outcome: Hi Sharon! This was a second marriage for Mary Ann when she had been widowed and married James Payne in 1862. Assure them you'll go legal and watch then cave. you regretted your parents and teachers who teach you every knowledge. Not true! Celine McKay They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. This should only be about putting up memorials and helping people find their loved ones, THAT'S IT. Sad life when people have nothing better to do with their time. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. send in corrections! family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. Prehistoric grave sites contain fragile, easily destroyed remains. 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. I need to confirm my email address with Find a Grave..I don't know why is a leget address..I was thinking maybe all a SCAM. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? I was wondering if they shut down. actually you should not find ladybug person. I have visit grave site that someone had taken a picture of headstones by the time I got there years later the headstone was clean and more visible. This account has been disabled. The prosecutor says that I can file a civil complaint about this infringement against the guy who took and posted the picture. This politically correct world is becoming ridicules when we can't even tell historical facts about people .One of my relatives committed suicide because his wife left him do to he drank to much . How may I get my issues addressed? Desired outcome: that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. I already had a memorial created soon after my nephews passing. The mechanics do not work like you were brainwashed to believe. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. I can see that people have different points of few, but some posts here have been rather tackless, almost cruel and cruel. FindAGrave has more than 154 million memorials on its site and is a valuable research tool. It is in fact not precious hard work, it is simply walking around and taking pictures of graves. It was not put here for it to be a tug of war or a battleground everyone must follow the rules and regulations Open your mind, open your heart a bit, have some respect for fellow Users and please utilize other websites if you don't like a specific one. 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. Man it's their photo not your photo. Findagrave is gross and obscene. 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. When I add names, etc. Jul 19 2017. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. answer me one thing. My condolences to you and your family. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. We can resolve this issue. The family moved to the Mohawk Community in Greene County when Tom was three years old because the Norris Dam took their farm. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. Quickly search more than 180 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. Once redeemed these souls may enter heaven and start having children. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. it's your choice to take unauthorized headstone and put on findagrave. ti's not "HARD WORK. " Find a Grave - Online Search. they have family/friends help them compete for the right and privacy. It is owned by Ancestry.com. The bottom-lineNot every family wants to be part of "Find A Grave's internet kingdom." You can always change this later in your Account settings. For consumers, it can happen through online feedback forms or customer service countersbut consumer complaints are a separate matter. I am sure you can find another forum for that discussion. For example, I have a cousin whose memorial was posted, no picture of the headstone, no information on all her pass husbands ( she was married 6 times, only one mentioned because it was on her obituary which was posted in an El Paso, Texas newspaper. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. 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." Memorial: Mary Payne ([protected]) It was founded in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident, Jim Tipton. listed divorce dates, ex spouses names and material of a more private nature our family did not want to share with the world. 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. 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! It is purely disgusting what they do, I understand the bit of finding relatives and such, however adding details like that is just revolting. THAT's THE REAL DISHONOR. She refused. Many Find A Grave ghouls r also members of ancestry . 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. Janet, directly under the memorial's information, select 'suggest edits'. To use this feature, use a newer browser. 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. Not just steal. IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? You will get no place arguing with FindAGrave's hierarchy or major contributors. So contact ancestry.Com about this. So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. I have contacted the prosecutor and state police. But the practice of find a grave to "award" people for creating memorials has become a disgusting practice whereas in order to get the numbers they lose all sense of humanity and compassion. 3. If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. 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. But what they did do is give control to someone who claims to be related through my third great grandfathers brother. Since my daughter's crime is unsolved I have reported this to the detectives on the case. They are supposed to transfer but don't. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. 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. compete on how many records make is useless. just disappeared ? God forbid you had a famous relative? How ridiculous! 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. You've closed your mind to anything other . Voila! I feel this infringes on my privacy, copyright laws and personal property of mine being placed on the internet for advertising purposes. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Findagrave is a profitable business. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. Every one listen, this website is a blessing to everyone that's on it, it was put here to view memorials and find peace. You can suggest additions or corrections and the manager can choose to use those to improve the memorial. A Grave .Com ? It was sudden, he was in the prime of his life. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" Forms, by Agency Find a U.S. federal government form by choosing the agency that publishes it. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may contact the customer support team. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? Have you read Find A Grave's Help section on what to do if your Edit is declined? TeeJLee, What process? 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. Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. who never knew her. Find A Grave - Has no check against rampant fraud. [1] . This person will not answer my emails and the police have located him. And almost as many gravestone photos. They just would not listen. My nephew passed on new year's eve. There are many kind and helpful people on F/A/G. As for Obit's find a grave dose say not to add names of living family members but some people still add them. Brought in dead to The Meath Hospital, Heytesbury Street, Dublin, having had a Coronary Occlusion & Paroxysmal Tachycardia, certified I can see why they dropped you. I returned home yesterday from out of town, having just attended his funeral. And sharon shout out loud "this is my precious hard work" The new marker really looked nice. 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. Many memorials are created with information about survivors. I've been bullied by dozens of people just because a memorial for a man born over 200 years ago doesn't have information on where he was buried. Or at least you were, as I'm replying to this years after your post. As for memorials being an invasion of privacy, while I feel for the woman who didn't want her daughter's stone put up on the website, if I had a photo up and a family member asked me to remove it I would. everyone should be equal and should have privacy. They play upon emotion. Good luck ! This bored housewife manages OVER 8,600 memorials and ignores requests to transfer. 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. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com Nasty sorry this happened to you it certainly shouldnt happened. I live in central Va. and my father's plot is in Elliott City, there . 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. 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. STOP HOLDING MY GRANDPARENTS MEMORIALS HOSTAGE ! If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line 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? Unlike Western thought Mormons do not believe in a trinity and some deny Christ as the son of God. Complaining usually happens in the wake of a negative. Search Now. It's not on the tombstone and it was a nickname given to him by coworker where he worked for 4 years from [protected]. how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. Dear Sirs, STRONGLY Agree. However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. My sister's children are in their 20's they do not want to go to or see her grave. At the time he was a soldier in the 26th Cameronians Regiment.