SO HELP OUT! FindAGrave Addicts - Genealogy Wise I have had Bios i wrote stolen and posted elsewhere with no mention of me writing those. Being bitter and calling people names because you are upset is wrong. My computer system is set up to alert me if something downloads without my permission so it was caught almost immediately. Ask the Community. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. Nothing has changed and no one has contacted me regarding the matter. Historical Society. the site should really remove that photo especially if your 6-yr daugther had not died. An alternative - Forever Missed. Celine McKay Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. I have only been a member maybe 6 months I would never delete anyones work. It is essentially a long term lease from the cemetery. These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. Chuck's claim to fame is being an expert at useless knowledge. TeeJLee, From my and others' experience, findagrave sends messages via every email. 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. I have sent this person several messages and no response there will be action taken against her too. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. There are spelling errors and incorrect info. I have helped many people find long lost ancestors from several generations back with many not knowing where their ancestors were buried. Why? Solution: Make a new account, follow the rules, and be nice. Desired outcome: It has nothing to do with a grave or burial plot. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section. Some people do not want their family members in the site, and its not your God-given right as a volunteer to ignore that. Sad, because I do not want to return to the site now. I have contacted them and they refuse to remove it. A problem occurred. Desired outcome: Again, it's only a website overrun by volunteers so move on. I don't see the point in the complaint. It should be "well I've got more than you do" what are you 5? Do not bring up respect when you yourself seem to have never even processed the topic. 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. yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. Owner block you. Be aware, many of these idiots will NOT give you management and when you contact findagrave.com they don't care. 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. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. Owner block you. Listener Numbers, Contacts, Similar Podcasts - Grave Matters you regretted your parents and teachers who teach you every knowledge. Complaint Experience N/A Complaint Resolution Index (CRI) Membership Information . He must of went through the grave yard and saw this grave with my nephews middle name and last name on his temporary marker. Find A Grave is a free website providing access to and an opportunity to input cemetery information to an online database of cemetery records. Reported Problem: Not accurate - Their data conflicts with my data. Find A Grave deceptive, rip off, scam Salt Lake City, UT. This person has harassed me even on created memorials I worked hard on. They just would not listen. because findagrave should NOT allow people take unauthorized headstone and claim "DEAD PEOPLE PRIVACY IS GONE". Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. There's an etiquette to these things, whether anyone follows it or not. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. Did I post the information of the drunk teenager that killed her? Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. You don't not belong on complaintsboard. Yes, I know what they are supposed to do.. Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? I had my fathers memorial, my grandfathers, my grandmother, my great grand parents stolen from my control by someone who isn't related. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. I feel it is their family member and they should be allowed to honor them. 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. Findagrave has a rule, family and friend of dead can report stolen headstone photo to findagrave staff and staff can remove the page down and suspend that member (Creator), your daughter photo is not their property but your property, this site has problems of using other person photo. The site stores over 120 million grave records, providing plenty of material. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. Stop awarding points like trophies. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. And we are all volunteers. I would say that many members provide relevant information and are not "collectors" of graves and the service they provide in invaluable. REMOVE THE SUBJECT MEMORIAL: [protected], This person Brenda Beatty McGraw, working for Find a Grave constantly documents false vital statistics concerning my family tree. Kind regards, They typically do that when a member has a long history of violating their site policies. I've done a small number of photo requests from the site at a local cemetery. And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? Please try again later. Resend Activation Email. Learn more about requesting management here. 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. just disappeared ? God bless you all ! 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). Graves do not have copyrights either. Delete anything you don't want. they think that, if your photo is put there, you will die fast. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. The person who stole them claims to be related although they arent and they have never met any of my family. Don't buy into it. I've corrected Ms. DiMarco's errors and removed info the family doesn't want to share. 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. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. I don't know who took your daughter's photo (or anyone else in here). Some person going by Ladybug (member #[protected]) {note doesn't even use a REAL name, address, email, etc.} Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. It is a place to record cemeteries. 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. Please include the cemetery ID number or the URL to the cemetery page on Find a Grave. I can only hope I outlive him, so I can reclaim my family. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. E arlier this year, a distraught parent posted on Complaints Board, a third-party review site, that they'd made a horrifying discovery: their six-year-old daughter's headstone had been photographed and posted on Find A Grave without their knowledge. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. I wanted to create a memorial for my grandfather and grandmother on Find A Grave. Does it occur to them that maybe just maybe its a memorial site and that the FAMILY might want to create the memorial and have correct information on their loved ones memorials. Chances are you will find the cemetery you are looking for. family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. After reading this post I know now who killed Vaudeville, Forest Lawn/LA (the cemetery of the stars) have a policy regarding photos. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. STOP HOLDING MY GRANDPARENTS MEMORIALS HOSTAGE ! Owners of private property on which a cemetery or graves are located shall have a duty to allow ingress and egress to the cemetery or graves by (i) family members and descendants of deceased persons buried there; (ii) any cemetery plot owner; (iii) any person engaging in genealogy research, who has given reasonable notice to the owner of If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" What they do believe in concerning an after life is an eternal plain that is tended by a mother and father God. com. If you are hoping to find the grave of a specific relative, then you will need to have some vital record information: Full name (first, middle, last) Date of birth Date of death Location of death You can find full names and birthdates on family bibles or baptismal and census records. No one asked you to meddle in family ties Interesting. I know this person and his family . God Speed. I took photos and also added baby pictures to a memorial I created on FindAGrave. 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. They play upon emotion. Meanwhile, I'm calling findagrave now. Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. [1] Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. 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. They steal my records, my photos and basically my deceased family. all the info that told about who he was related to, and the story that was in the newspaper is gone from his web site now . 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. There are two types of Memorials you can create..the basic similar to Find A Grave is free. Find a Grave is connected to Ancestry. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? posts. 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. I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. 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. 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. "Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect dealing with this." Locating Unmarked Graves - Texas Historical Commission Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? Find a Grave is a volunteer project. You then control exactly what's on the memorial. Twice I have submitted a maiden name for a deceased relative and twice been declined - Gatsey, check Find A Grave's Help section to make sure you are sending your messages to the correct email address. I am amazed at people who have done 20, 000+ headstones, don't they have a life. When I protested FindAGrave blocked my isp and booted me out. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. so please everyone do not turn this beautiful website into a horror story. Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. In most cases they don't. 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. 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 ? All this and more with just a few taps. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. A Grave .Com ? You might be surprised to know that many people find the image of their ancestor's headstone more real than a photo of them taken when they were alive. This is stealing/theft/vandalism. But why bother. Previously, I had a friend write me my other experience on 'people who hate memorials listed as burial details unknown'. I understand why it is a blessing to some people, however it does in fact invade the privacy of many families. 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". 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." 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. Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect in dealing with this. You wrote: Many private cemeteries have banned FindAGravd's top contributor cyber ghouls from taking photos of tombstones. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. This is wrong! Back then it was a site consisting of records of celebrities and their burial sites. Burial Solutions | Better Business Bureau Profile Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. But this past month has been a nightmare. this fraud is a sociopathic means of lying and a person getting their false praise and getting money for their prostitution. This is an ethics issue here ! I only record what is mentioned on the stone. They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. I have contacted Find A Grave and even submitted a copy of my birth certificate and they have done nothing. I am a contributor with over 800 memorials added, mostly from the 1800's. having headstone does not mean they can not enjoy privacy. Wowmost of you really need to get a life. Ask the Community "How do I?" questions about the Find a Grave website. I am having trouble, I manage several of my family graves and I am not able to log in and no one is returning my emails, I haven't been able to find a phone number. ----- And as far as "trampling on a grave" I am ALWAYS careful to NOT step on any grave (provided there's still any indication of one) and use my zoom lens instead. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. We are not associated with the cemetery and don't have any information beyond what the community has added. Send that to the person clearly outlining your direct relationship. Just so you know. There are many kind and helpful people on F/A/G. 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 ? If you can't find someone on the site, it's probably just . "Find A Grave's" support generally ignores family requests in favour of their cyber ghouls who r constantly on the lookout to create just one more memorial in hopes of hitting the million mark.