so please everyone do not turn this beautiful website into a horror story. You really don't need all the drama FindAGrave's hierarchy throws in your face. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. Find a Grave - Online Search. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. Find A Grave is eventually going to be sued and it will undoubtedly take down the site and their business. If so, we already had this talk. Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: Can I charge money as a Photo Volunteer? 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. ti's not "HARD WORK. " now findagrave deletes burial records and members now. I have contacted find a grave through their website and received one response but no corrections! especially those from earlier days. 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. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. She flatly refuses to give it up. I'm pretty sure I know whose behind this, I have figured it out. For me, THAT is worth all the complaining offered by a few families who are upset their loved one's photo is on **** or any other site. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? 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. It is a numbers game and there is no effort put into true research, the bios are limited if they even provide one. When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. This experience is similar. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. I too thought that direct family should include aunts and uncles. It requires patience. BEWARE of this websites. Ask for permission. I lost my daughter in 1978. I am now being stalked by these administrators and they dont stop. Assure them you'll go legal and watch then cave. 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 ? Nuff said. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. There is a process to get memorials transferred. My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. It is a disgusting desecration on my sister's grave and memory! 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. They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. It was sudden, he was in the prime of his life. My sister's children are in their 20's they do not want to go to or see her grave. Explore All Topics and Services on USA.gov Top 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. 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. File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. They're making a tidy bundle off of your work. family or friends can call findagrave to delete unallowed photographs on their family/friend's tombstones. Sometimes if you ask nicely, someone will comply with your wishes. If you don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). Do not bring up respect when you yourself seem to have never even processed the topic. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. Find A Grave - Access to findagrave and a complaint about a comment left on a findagrave page. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. I couldn't care less about the number of memorials I create (you refer to these as "points"; I assure you, they are not); have GREAT empathy, compassion and respect when it comes to the dead, and certainly don't chase bodies. Also sending me arrogant emails in response to my disapproval. Best wishes, However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. Are you upset with public death certificates published online? Hey James, My older brother was put up on findagrave without my family's permission, which my mother found out about years ago, and she wasn't given a reply when she requested to have it removed. A kind, generous, and gentle man, he was born on August 18, 1933 in Claiborne County. 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. unlist the current cemetery. Nothing is sacred here. I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. God forbid you had a famous relative? This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. Like FB you control what's on the page. because if her friends/her classmates/classmates parents. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. 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. Owner block you. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. their family and freinds HAD EVERY RIGHTS TO ASK FINDAGRAVE REMOVE THAT RECORD. You can always change this later in your Account settings. TeeJLee, From my and others' experience, findagrave sends messages via every email. For more information about the cemetery or burials within it or buying a plot, you should contact the cemetery directly. I thank them for their time and move on. They need to be documented while they still exist so future family members can honor their memory too. Desired outcome: 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). She manages OVER 8,600 memorials and made a ton of mistakes on my parents memorials. But this past month has been a nightmare. "Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect dealing with this." Really? Information provided is not true. I have contacted the prosecutor and state police. There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. It is a place to record cemeteries. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. I would email the cemetery asking if they could please verify whether or not John Flint, birth date-death date, is indeed buried there. Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. I know this person and his family . If you have specific examples, please forward those in the email to us. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. dead people have no privacy (when people die privacy is gone) it's not right. Anyone else wants to make "corrections", like a bored housewife, YOU get to decline. Stop awarding points like trophies. Wow! Find A Grave does not allow Photo Volunteers to charge money for volunteering. compete on how many records make is useless. Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. Well for all the money findagrave is apparently making if they want my help fulfilling the hundreds of requests in my local graveyard then they'e going to have to pull some money out of that old sock and put up. People add information about cemeteries to the site to help identify the final disposition information of people buried there. 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. U can also change photos and music any time u wantno restrictions. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. I am sorry that your loved one has passed. are you saying that STEALING PEOPLE HEADSTONE WITHOUT AUTHORIZE IS CALLED PRECIOUS HARD WORK Findagrave is gross and obscene. Voila! I know this might be making some of you angry and further irritated with us "disgusting gravers", but the reality is no laws are broken by taking a photo of a headstone. 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. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. 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. Imagine if people were making money from posting these photos. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. This website uses future generations as an excuse to take photos of children, babies, adults, of all ages and post them online. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. Why do you care so much? just disappeared ? Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. Many private cemeteries have banned FindAGravd's top contributor cyber ghouls from taking photos of tombstones. Sometimes if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. I want to RIP. I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? Find a Grave is a volunteer project. Find A Grave - Has no check against rampant fraud. By CVal, 2 hours ago. 04/17/2022 I do a few memorials for family and friends. Once redeemed these souls may enter heaven and start having children. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. All in all, I will say it again. And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? 1. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin people would mistaken that she had died. 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). What the hell is wrong with people. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. 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! Forever Missed's top package is something like $30.00 bucks. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. Contact Your Local BBB Your local Better Business Bureau can assist you with finding businesses and. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. "Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online," wrote the user. 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. They told me they have the right to delete my account because I put a link in my bio to another website (which is absolutely safe). 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. In many cases the correct markers can't be located or definitely identified, especially when they are old. 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. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. We promise not to send you any unrelated messages, Click here if youd like to unsubscribe from notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. ^^^^^Seems to me that they are taking advantage of the people doing the photography. I do not care how many countless hours "Find A Grave's cyber ghouls put into it. It has nothing to do with a grave or burial plot. I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. Seriously? Ancestry manages Find a Grave. Not just steal. I didnt even get an email from Find A Grave to warn me. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. She said "you can not ruin people precious hard work" which makes me underlook her. And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. Learn how to play nice. Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. 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 Although, I bet you could associate ANY activity as a contest - you seem to have a GIANT chip on your shoulder about this. Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. the email is from his daughter (she claim it's his daughter) but sounds like it's pretending his daughter. Nobody would love f## site. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. 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. So Ancestry is breaking Find a Grave's guidelines. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. There's an etiquette to these things, whether anyone follows it or not. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section. 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". Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. They typically do that when a member has a long history of violating their site policies. In many cases these ghouls comb local obits and reprint them on Find A Grave. These so called "major contributors" also post family photos they have swiped from the net. Sad, because I do not want to return to the site now. My Find a Grave ID is: [protected] . I have no issue with someone adding OLD graves they found while walking the cemeteries. I refuse to wait 2 weeks, which is what I've been told by "Findagrave". FuryH, Hun, Your daughter's grave and headstone are in a PUBLIC PLACEpeople use find a grave for RESEARCH reasons, and to SAVE these names for posteritythey do it because THEY CARE..not for any money or fame . Read full review of Find A Grave and 1 comment. Ruby is right. Create a findagrave.com account and then click "suggest edits" and then there will be an option to request management of the memorial. My heart goes out to you. On the Obituary for Stacy Bradburn Billings [protected] the person has inserted a picture of a person Stacy Bradburn who is still alive. Many Find A Grave ghouls r also members of ancestry . And, if so, where. My nephew passed on new year's eve. The person who has my grandparents on his list of memorials has 25, 000 and has been there for 15 years. At the time he was a soldier in the 26th Cameronians Regiment. The one who will not relinquish my relatives said his wife is a relative, however, he admitted she is only a cousin and does not even provide relevant biographical information to their "memorials". Do you want your child forgotten? Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a They are by states of where the person was buried. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. findagrave can no longer secure any dead grave names. There is a problem with your email/password. In memory of your daughter, why don't you start a family tree of your own, for your relatives and descendants to enjoy.