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. dead person family can still object if they dont want. We all have ancestors we like to memorialize. Grave Matters Chuck and Kristy Robinett. Complaint Experience N/A Complaint Resolution Index (CRI) Membership Information i tried to explain the situation but they stopped replying. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. They play upon emotion. Bill Sky-Eagle. but you know sir. How may I get my issues addressed? Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world. The person who stole them claims to be related although they arent and they have never met any of my family. 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]. Information provided is not true. FuryH, Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. - 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. I think it's very selfish to want to keep them to yourself. I do it because it helps many people to feel closer to a loved one. Findagrave does not help with suggested edits. 3. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. especially if the girl is even NOT DEAD YET. I'll write again to let everyone know the outcome of this. Everyone feels differently about this though. 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. Find A Grave is not owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! If so, we already had this talk. A. Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? Contacted manager of my daughter's "site" who has refused to remove information I object to from daughter's bio or agree to transfer the memorial to me. 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. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may contact the customer support team. So, it's a crap shoot, but some do turn them over. As someone who does genealogy work I find Find a Grave invaluable. These so called "major contributors" also post family photos they have swiped from the net. FINDAGRAVE and ANCESTRY.COM are owned by the same people. Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. The mechanics do not work like you were brainwashed to believe. It has nothing to do with a grave or burial plot. I have contacted the prosecutor and state police. Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? A. When burial details are unknown, Ancestry has a "global" index for this. Desired outcome: 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. I would email the cemetery asking if they could please verify whether or not John Flint, birth date-death date, is indeed buried there. Good luck! Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. They were being my managed by Patsy Lubben DiMarco who IGNORES transfer requests. 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 ? At the time he was a soldier in the 26th Cameronians Regiment. especially those from earlier days. [1] Also sending me arrogant emails in response to my disapproval. their own unique way of cataloging data. If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. I only record what is mentioned on the stone. Desired outcome: theft is wrong. Your second argument of unknown dispositions do not make sense, especially in the cases of my and Eddie Jones' Reviews. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. Gin, if Find A Grave has taken over management of your memorials, your account has been shut down by Find A Grave. I too thought that direct family should include aunts and uncles. Quickly search more than 180 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. or else. Sharon Haywood. 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. The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world's largest free online collection of burial information. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Find and visit a loved one's final resting place anywhere, anytime. I have only been a member maybe 6 months I would never delete anyones work. He had joined the army when he was about 18 and spent the first few years in Ireland. Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. Ask for permission. This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. The free plan is basic. Son of Edward Chandler, a labourer. 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. I don't see the point in the complaint. Ancestry provides a myriad of beneficial services; Find A Grave is yet another website providing beneficial information. The dead could care less what u do. Take William Butten's find-a-grave memorial. A trojan virus downloaded onto my computer when I was on Find A Grave and clicked on a family name within a memorial. If you know the cemetery where someone is buried but you're not sure exactly which plot is theirs, take a trip to the graveyard. Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. 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". Use this form for website feedback and suggestions to improve how the website works. if NJ harass, report to findagrave. 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. You create a Memorial for a deceased loved one. Many Find A Grave ghouls r also members of ancestry . things I will never get back now. You are one of a kind, Findagrave administrators steal my family pages from me and change them. I want to add to my comment above that it is only a numbers game with a few individuals. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. 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. The rationale: They do not want a resting place for the dead to be devourered by FindAGrave's cyber knowitall undertakers. 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. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some who never knew her. we are adults providing precious information to those who cannot visit a grave site. No, that's not what it means. 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. 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 It shouldn't be about having 7, 000 memorials, nor should anyone "own" a cemetery (I had an issue with a woman over that as well and finally decided the hell with her, if she didn't have one of the people buried, than I added it). Find a Grave - Online Search. So much unneccesary stress its to the point I consider suicide. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Many contain personal info that many families wish 2 keep private. 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). So, NO the I wouldn't trust anyone who did genealogy research using Find A Grave. Youll find helpful information about your account here or you can use this form to send us questions about account issues. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. It's not on the tombstone and it was a nickname given to him by coworker where he worked for 4 years from [protected]. For the record I am 75 years old and thinks it pretty [censored]ty of FindAGrave to respond in such a way. Solution: Make a new account, follow the rules, and be nice. think how bad it would mean. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. If that means I have a rock to mark my burial site, so be it. Find A Grave is eventually going to be sued and it will undoubtedly take down the site and their business. Its directed at those whos compulsion is to have as many as they can for their own greedy ego. I do not care how many countless hours "Find A Grave's cyber ghouls put into it. I feel this infringes on my privacy, copyright laws and personal property of mine being placed on the internet for advertising purposes. 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. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. 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 ? So contact ancestry.Com about this. 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. We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. They are by states of where the person was buried. Kind regards, Totally agree. 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. Kind regards. Being bitter and calling people names because you are upset is wrong. Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. Mostly we are retired in any case. For more information about the cemetery or burials within it or buying a plot, you should contact the cemetery directly. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. My nephew passed on new year's eve. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. Not just steal. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. You've closed your mind to anything other . If u r family or tourists u can take photos. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. I attempted to get Megan Heyl to turn these memorials back over to the family. 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. Open to both member questions and member answers. Sometimes if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. This is wrong! Search 502,691 cemeteries in 243 different countries. Find contact information for federal, state, and local government officials. "When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend." It is a place to record cemeteries. Chances are you will find the cemetery you are looking for. If you have specific examples, please forward those in the email to us. Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. I have been a member of find a grave since it first started. The point hasn't anything to do with the validity of Find A Grave, but rather do you want you family added to their lists and plastered all over the net. waste of taxpayer money. Desired outcome: I thank them for their time and move on. TAKE IT DOWN you ###! 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. I understand how it would feel really wrong to have a young child, recently gone, posted on the site but I really don't think there's much to be done about it. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. As a young man he joined. Sad, because I do not want to return to the site now. they will ban her. All that info is gone now! Assure them you'll go legal and watch then cave. The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? 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. 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. Find A Grave deceptive, rip off, scam Salt Lake City, UT. 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." 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. He must of went through the grave yard and saw this grave with my nephews middle name and last name on his temporary marker. they have family/friends help them compete for the right and privacy. This website uses future generations as an excuse to take photos of children, babies, adults, of all ages and post them online. If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. Read full review of Find A Grave and 2 comments. 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. you are lucky enough to find findagrave steal your daughter photo but it's just a fortune you find out, many people online may use your daughter photos already. Please try again later. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. We had collected written history of his life and contributions to Montgomery county Md. Like Fish1452, I only manage a very few memorials and I have been a member of [censored] for over 20 years. The whole point of a grave stone is to publicly honor the person's life. 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 . 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. 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. I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. Stealing ppl headstone on your camera and put online on your own findagrave page, is not even hard work, it's vandalism, Reading sharon haywood post i just wanna laugh at her. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. 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? 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. IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? The site stores over 120 million grave records, providing plenty of material. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. I got a kick from this off their faq page: That also shows me that this person's hobby is spending constant hours on Find a Grave for her/his number count. The other ad location that I have a problem with is the one at the end of the memorial which relegates the memorial owner/contributor ("created by") to the bottom of the page . Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. son. I was born in 1978 but sorry for your daughter. Complaining usually happens in the wake of a negative. 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. It was founded in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident, Jim Tipton. R.L. It's that easy. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. I want to RIP. When I started genealogy research 2 years ago I was grateful to find information on loved ones. ^^^^^Seems to me that they are taking advantage of the people doing the photography. Please contact me within 14 business days, or you will be hearing from my attorney. i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. Same thing, been on there 18 years and they suddenly said I was inactive, (I had just added 500 memorials in last 30 days) no I was very active, tried to log in but can't they won't send an email to reset password, and in looking I see that [censored] now has management of all my memorials and in last 24 hrs have given almost 50 away. The information on six posts are false and falsely placed according to statements of family and or records listed. Some families just want 2 be left alone without rehashing family ties. based on information from your browser. They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. They do nothing about it. Thank you in advance for your help in resolving this stalemate. The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customers satisfaction. We have set your language to 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 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. They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. I lost my daughter in 1978. 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. Please include the cemetery ID number or the URL to the cemetery page on Find a Grave. If I was that person whose picture is there I would be very upset. not all people know your daughter had not really died. Method 1 Searching Individual Headstones 1 Visit the cemetery if you know where it is. And yes, they are a husband-wife . The "known disposition" is the key - you have to know the disposition BEFORE you add a memorial. They typically do that when a member has a long history of violating their site policies. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. They are more interested in grabbing a tombstone in hopes of getting brownie points. deleting precious hard work that someone has done is very disrespectful. this is quite/very serious. Salt Lake City UT. When confronted they claim they r performing.a service if families want it or not. Anyone else wants to make "corrections", like a bored housewife, YOU get to decline. 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. 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. 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. It is essentially a long term lease from the cemetery. First, if you already asked Wendy to transfer the memorial to you and she ignored you, I would recommend contacting support@findagrave.com (if you already didn't) and ask them to give the memorial to you. What is your experience with Find A Grave? Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. It was not put here for it to be a tug of war or a battleground everyone must follow the rules and regulations and not step on anyone's feet. are you saying that STEALING PEOPLE HEADSTONE WITHOUT AUTHORIZE IS CALLED PRECIOUS HARD WORK This experience is similar. And sharon shout out loud "this is my precious hard work" They play upon emotion. She manages OVER 8,600 memorials and made a ton of mistakes on my parents memorials. I understand why it is a blessing to some people, however it does in fact invade the privacy of many families. @, no one has to ask permission to photograph a headstone. Not just steal. So any suggestions? THAT's THE REAL DISHONOR. For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. 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. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. 42.5k. I check notifications daily so that any family with closer ties may contact me and have their memorial transferred to them (especially since that is supposed to be how it works). This is very basic courtesy. 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. Did you include a link to your profile or your member number? everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! SO HELP OUT! This account has been disabled. I am also a member of Ancestry which owns FindaGrave, yet there has been no correction and no help. Action, and change of name on Memorial or transfer to myself so I can put pertinent information on the Memorial. There are spelling errors and incorrect info. This browser does not support getting your location. When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. Claim it and get a lot of features. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. Have you read Find A Grave's Help section on what to do if your Edit is declined? If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. They are getting fresh air and exercise. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. Big, fat demented I don't want her u can have her circus freak, Megan Heyl is holding my decessed 6 month old son's memorial hostage and refuses to turn ownership back to me. Non related people can steal your family (Dead family dead friends) photo/headstone, and put online in their name on creator list, when you ask them transfer to you, they said no and even claim to staff you harass they. I am absolutely revolted! 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. In my case I created a memoral 4 my Grandmother and also a memorial for a favoured child who died in infancy. There should be no emotional attachment on the part of a picture taker. Please wait a few minutes and try again. Resend Activation Email. 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. Nobody would love f## site. Explore All Topics and Services on USA.gov Top Now the problem is that you don't have an account so there's no where to transfer the memorial to. Anyone walking a cemetery can find DOB. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. Mormons view of religion is a little different than Western thought. This is a warped site managed by sub human creatures that crawled out from public sewers. How do messages work? So I'm VERY CURIOUS. But when I find it, post it and notify the requestor that are overjoyed. And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report This is not hard work. I refuse to wait 2 weeks, which is what I've been told by "Findagrave". Nuff said. For immediate removal: Please remove Memorial #[protected]. That's obscene. if the person died, findagrave must let the person stay in their site, even if they had not have tombstone/headstone. There are ads on most pages from which they make revenue, and they charge family members to remove the ads from their loved one's profile. But thanks for hijacking this thread. aged 43, married Not everyone who provides this service (and yes it is a service maybe not to you NOW but to future generations who will be very happy someone like me gifted my time and love for family history to make sure their ancestor could be found.. definitely). Not true. I can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. 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. 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. The day of publicly available data is here and increases daily. family or friends can call findagrave to delete unallowed photographs on their family/friend's tombstones. By CVal, 2 hours ago. Desired outcome: However there is not a lot that can be done about it. I have had Bios i wrote stolen and posted elsewhere with no mention of me writing those. Also F.A.G says they award points, so beef with them. Please check to see if your confederate ancestors token of respect hasn't been changed over to a hideous LOOKING PURPLE flower. The site would consist solely of faked pictures.