When I confronted this whale of a whale to relinquished ownership and return the memorial back to me I was banned. Imagine if people were making money from posting these photos. In many cases these ghouls comb local obits and reprint them on Find A Grave. I don't see reasons for the anguish. Some people do not want their family members in the site, and its not your God-given right as a volunteer to ignore that. Get those cheap skates to pay you! 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. Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". This is true even on Newspapers.com (also owned by Ancestry). I thank them for their time and move on. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. I've got 10 memorials, TEN, and have been a member for 14 years on Find a Grave. If you do not want others to see you name or your daughter's do not put it on the stone. who never knew her. 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. Ask the Community. It is a place to record cemeteries. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a I got a kick from this off their faq page: But unlike FindAGrave you are in control and its you who decide on what data is included in the memorial. I am a private person in life and I want privacy when I die. My lawyer has been contacted. You then control exactly what's on the memorial. It's that simple. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. Some person going by Ladybug (member #[protected]) {note doesn't even use a REAL name, address, email, etc.} com. I'm an amateur genealogist and I've heard of the unsavory practices of Find A Grave members, so I Another member of Find a Grave is holding my grandfather's memorial page hostage. The pay version is a one time 30 bucks. John married Eliza (or Elizabeth) Moody at St Ann, Belfast, Northern Ireland on Christmas Eve 1864. FindAGrave is LSD an extension of the Mormon Church. People who hate memorials listed as "burial details unknown", Aggressive elderly man is mad at me because I made his memorial famous, Find A Grave - protects stalkers and harassments, Find A Grave - Unfair and bad membership service, Find A Grave - Added to website before a family knew a death had happened. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. This person will not answer my emails and the police have located him. Nothing is sacred here. Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. I have had Bios i wrote stolen and posted elsewhere with no mention of me writing those. I attempted to get Megan Heyl to turn these memorials back over to the family. I want to RIP. from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin Being bitter and calling people names because you are upset is wrong. In many cases the correct markers can't be located or definitely identified, especially when they are old. Wow! better not put personal photos online(esp girl naked photos). Stop awarding points like trophies. Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect in dealing with this. Stone doesn't last forever . now findagrave deletes burial records and members now. Find A Grave is open to anyone creating a memorial for a deceased person with a known disposition. if you harass the creatoer or the grave page owner, they will report you harass them and they will ban your profile in findagrave. We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. I am not dead, yet! Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. Find A Grave contributors are not responsible for the content of the memorials they create. I want to add to my comment above that it is only a numbers game with a few individuals. I lost my daughter in 1978. They are more interested in grabbing a tombstone in hopes of getting brownie points. The new marker really looked nice. We had collected written history of his life and contributions to Montgomery county Md. FindAGrave was meant to help people find where someone's last resting place was. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. They are about a month behind in their email correspondence. it's your choice to take unauthorized headstone and put on findagrave. Find A Grave - Has no check against rampant fraud. Nothing has been done and I'm upset! Not you wish to steal you go steal, then claim that photo is own by yourself. If you don't have cemetery burial information they shouldn't be put up. 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. They are horrible! unlist the current cemetery. They typically do that when a member has a long history of violating their site policies. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. 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 Wasted my timeFind A Grave has changed a lot since it changed hands. It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. 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. Good luck! I never heard back so it's still there. Find A Grave continues its mission to provide a collaborative community where members can contribute memorials and record burial dispositions If you have any questions regarding this or any other matters pertaining to Find A Grave, please do not hesitate to contact senior administration directly at support@findgrave.com Sincerely, Find A Grave I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. He then served for four and a half. Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. It was sudden, he was in the prime of his life. Quickly search more than 180 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. 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. Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. This account has been disabled. I got threatened with police action because the evil administrators refused to give my account back after it was removed. 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). We can resolve this issue. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. At the time he was a soldier in the 26th Cameronians Regiment. The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. True Crime. You will get no place arguing with FindAGrave's hierarchy or major contributors. It has nothing to do with a grave or burial plot. I am the last of my family and I even submitted a copy of my birth certificate showing relation. Again, it's only a website overrun by volunteers so move on. Open to both member questions and member answers. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. Many people enjoy walking through cemeteries and taking pictures. if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. The site would consist solely of faked pictures. They play upon emotion. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? My nephew passed on new year's eve. Speaking for myself the answer is NO. 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. 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. Truly pathetic. And yes, they are a husband-wife . We have set your language to If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" Ruby is right. A system error has occurred. Put a new memorial or photo on an existing one, and use the memorial's location and photo to make it more visible. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. Learn how to play nice. Memorials of: Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected], You get no place trying to get find a grave ghouls to transfer memorials back to the family even though it is protocal to do so. U can also change photos and music any time u wantno restrictions. 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. BBB Scam Tracker Still Need Assistance? Totally agree. The information on six posts are false and falsely placed according to statements of family and or records listed. But what they did do is give control to someone who claims to be related through my third great grandfathers brother. deleting precious hard work that someone has done is very disrespectful. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. 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. Do not bring up respect when you yourself seem to have never even processed the topic. I would email the cemetery asking if they could please verify whether or not John Flint, birth date-death date, is indeed buried there. If you follow the process, you can get the change made - but it isn't a speedy process. Mostly we are retired in any case. I don't love how Find A Grave is run and it irks me that much of the information on the site is really terribly inaccurate, but presented in a manner that makes many people take it as fact, and impossible to correct or contribute to with the territorial attitude that the managing of memorials seems to foster. 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. If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. SO HELP OUT! 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 . 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. 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. Weve updated the security on the site. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. Owner block you. Bill Sky-Eagle. 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". Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. 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. TAKE IT DOWN you ###! It is a disgusting desecration on my sister's grave and memory! 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. Really? Previously, I had a friend write me my other experience on 'people who hate memorials listed as burial details unknown'. I've created over a thousand memorials and thousands of photos, some were by request, others not. Memorial: Mary Payne ([protected]) They play on emotions. 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. 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. 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. What the hell is wrong with people. If a family member has asked you to remove a memorial, than you do it. Find A Grave has many untrue information. Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. So yeah! 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. 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 There are very few privately owned cemeteries in the US. TeeJLee, What process? 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! Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. By the time I got home 2 hours later my family was already loaded. 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. Sometimes if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. My heart goes out to you. nobody would really be happy with findagrave anymore.! After reading this post I know now who killed Vaudeville, Forest Lawn/LA (the cemetery of the stars) have a policy regarding photos. Users upload photos of headstones and memorials, transcriptions of engravings, biographical information and links to family members. Many contain personal info that many families wish 2 keep private. - 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. You create a Memorial for a deceased loved one. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line For more information about the cemetery or burials within it or buying a plot, you should contact the cemetery directly. I had my fathers memorial, my grandfathers, my grandmother, my great grand parents stolen from my control by someone who isn't related. I haven't had any problems with anyone or them, so don't have a clue what is going on. A findagrave monitor is removing our confederate veterans tokens of respect and replacing them with hideous looking fake purple violets. You can suggest additions or corrections and the manager can choose to use those to improve the memorial. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. Nothing has changed and no one has contacted me regarding the matter. The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customers satisfaction. This is a warped site managed by sub human creatures that crawled out from public sewers. The person who has my grandparents on his list of memorials has 25, 000 and has been there for 15 years. 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. Desired outcome: This is very basic courtesy. Stop awarding points like trophies. 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. What they do believe in concerning an after life is an eternal plain that is tended by a mother and father God. They steal my records, my photos and basically my deceased family. My mother-in-law's site is totally inaccurate; says where she's buried. . I've done a small number of photo requests from the site at a local cemetery. There is a process to get memorials transferred. Furthermore, nobody actually "owns" a grave. I was wondering if they shut down. so, u guys can also see that, steal people family/friend funeral is stupid. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some I, just like you, add individual memorials so that future generations can utilize the information as they may need or want. Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. 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