My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. 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]. com. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. It all boils down to how well you play with others. I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. Are you upset with public death certificates published online? The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. Several times I've asked for corrections on my Mother's memorials. 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. This was a second marriage for Mary Ann when she had been widowed and married James Payne in 1862. ti's not "HARD WORK. " The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. BS..Find A Grave is a hang out for graveyard ghouls. We are no longer private people. 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. What burns me up is when people sitting at home are too lazy to go out and take real photos and instead make a memorial from an obituary with useless or private information about the deceased and family members and add the obituary photo of the deceased. I've received over 100 thank you emails from people who were searching for a loved one and happened upon the memorial or the photo of the loved one or their headstone. Son of Edward Chandler, a labourer. And almost as many gravestone photos. 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.. how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. There have been 250K claims filed against the government. 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". Information provided is not true. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. The site stores over 120 million grave records, providing plenty of material. You are one of a kind, Findagrave administrators steal my family pages from me and change them. Owner block you. Users upload photos of headstones and memorials, transcriptions of engravings, biographical information and links to family members. 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 take GREAT pride in linking people with their deceased family members to connect these families, piece them back together, after death. Within 5 miles of your location. 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. U can also change photos and music any time u wantno restrictions. 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! 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. 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. For the record I am 75 years old and thinks it pretty [censored]ty of FindAGrave to respond in such a way. "When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend." if NJ harass, report to findagrave. So I am very sorry for your loss, as I still have not gotten over mine, fortunately for me, I now have a nine year old granddaughter from my This is the result of 698 total reviews. Kind regards. I am not dead, yet! 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. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. 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. Learn how to play nice. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. 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. A Grave .Com ? What they do believe in concerning an after life is an eternal plain that is tended by a mother and father God. Ask the Community "How do I?" questions about the Find a Grave website. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. . from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. I started on there when it first started as a way to link my family and friends family for future generations, but once they started making it a contest it became distasteful and grotesque. The information is public, online or not. Nuff said. This commonplace.Memorial Park themed cemeteries. From there this dysfunctional woman took over my mother's memorial in addition to the already 50,000 memorials she has under her belt. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. Take William Butten's find-a-grave memorial. you regretted your parents and teachers who teach you every knowledge. 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. Find A Grave deceptive, rip off, scam Salt Lake City, UT. If a family member has asked you to remove a memorial, than you do it. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com - 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 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. Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! 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." 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. Finally, ### is neither all bad or all good, but some issues need to be addressed in civilized matter and in fairness to all users. I don't see the point in the complaint. Did you include a link to your profile or your member number? Please wait a few minutes and try again. Claim it and get a lot of features. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" He was the Captain of the brig Resistance during the Revolution and was killed in action at sea north of Barbados. Also sending me arrogant emails in response to my disapproval. I hope in the near future that there will be a legal challenge to ### as to whether they have a property right to post gravesites without permission for those who have passed away "after" a set period of time, similar to release of census records. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. People add information to the site by walking a cemetery and taking pictures, or from obituaries, other records or from information they have about family members. Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. She flatly refuses to give it up. 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. Nothing is sacred here. 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. 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. So, it's a crap shoot, but some do turn them over. If you find a memorial for someone you are related to within four generations and would like to manage that memorial, you can request to have that memorial transferred to you. I can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. Find a Grave contains information for over 500,000 cemeteries in 244 different countries! The whole point of a grave stone is to publicly honor the person's life. 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. Truly pathetic. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. There are very few privately owned cemeteries in the US. especially those from earlier days. This is true even on Newspapers.com (also owned by Ancestry). Sometimes if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. 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 . Well then I emailed Running Deer to let him be aware that this is my nephew, and that I didn't disclose that at first because I have caught him at this before. Interesting. Contact Your Local BBB Your local Better Business Bureau can assist you with finding businesses and. 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. Chuck's claim to fame is being an expert at useless knowledge. They need to be documented while they still exist so future family members can honor their memory too. There should be no emotional attachment on the part of a picture taker. For consumers, it can happen through online feedback forms or customer service countersbut consumer complaints are a separate matter. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. My nephew passed on new year's eve. No, that's not what it means. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. This experience is similar. All in all, I will say it again. Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. based on information from your browser. When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. 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. 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. That Find a Grave be consistent. This should only be about putting up memorials and helping people find their loved ones, THAT'S IT. And yes, they are a husband-wife . Then you are suspended. Desired outcome: As for putting personal information on a memorial, unless they knew the person it can't be any more personal than what is public knowledge from the newspaper, an obituary, etc. TeeJLee, What process? Other details can be found and verified on one of the family history websites - some of which are free. I know this person and his family . In most cases they don't. Although, I bet you could associate ANY activity as a contest - you seem to have a GIANT chip on your shoulder about this. Running Deer creates a duplicate, and I told him this was a friend of mine, Then Running Deer refuses to take his memorial down and reported mine as a duplicate. Some person going by Ladybug (member #[protected]) {note doesn't even use a REAL name, address, email, etc.} Furthermore, nobody actually "owns" a grave. FuryH, Many memorials are created with information about survivors. Ask for permission. Consider it a blessing. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. 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 I've been sent many messages of great thanks for doing so, including from many adoptees. Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. Terminate Brenda Beatty McGraw. 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. 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. I dont like findagrave too. These so called "major contributors" also post family photos they have swiped from the net. the email is from his daughter (she claim it's his daughter) but sounds like it's pretending his daughter. A system error has occurred. Find A Grave contributors are not responsible for the content of the memorials they create. Desired outcome: send in corrections! They were being my managed by Patsy Lubben DiMarco who IGNORES transfer requests. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. Many people enjoy walking through cemeteries and taking pictures. 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. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. You can suggest additions or corrections and the manager can choose to use those to improve the memorial. Like Fish1452, I only manage a very few memorials and I have been a member of [censored] for over 20 years. I feel this infringes on my privacy, copyright laws and personal property of mine being placed on the internet for advertising purposes. + Locate grave sites of your loved ones through . I feel it is their family member and they should be allowed to honor them. I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. Choose a topic below to begin. i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. I even put in for a forgot password thinking I had it wrong and I don't even get a email to reset it. So yeah! if you put your daughter photo online, anyone can also use it without letting you know Thank you in advance for your help in resolving this stalemate. 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. And, if so, where. Find contact information for federal, state, and local government officials. They play upon emotion. It was founded in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident, Jim Tipton. Nothing has changed and no one has contacted me regarding the matter. Like FB you control what's on the page. Personal Services: Find A Grave. you have no right to privacy. However there is not a lot that can be done about it. Explore All Topics and Services on USA.gov Top Not happy about it. No. "Find A Grave" thrives on harvesting cemetery data with no regard to family wishes. Get a life. Findagrave does not relinquish hold on a memorial when their representative is not reachable to contact. A problem occurred. My condolences to you and your family. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. Approximately 1 Reports Found. The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? The dead have no right to privacy. Please reset your password. Some of us are private people and just want to be left alone. #HYPOCRITES, Desired outcome: think how bad it would mean. This is totally wrong. Findagrave is gross and obscene. Do u know. Author: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Prehistoric grave sites contain fragile, easily destroyed remains. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. They stated I was 'harassing' them, despite me trying to calm the situation to get my account restored. You must include a valid cemetery ID or URL. Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. This is not precious. 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. Please check to see if your confederate ancestors token of respect hasn't been changed over to a hideous LOOKING PURPLE flower. I already had a memorial created soon after my nephews passing. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. So I'm VERY CURIOUS. Please enter your email and password to sign in. Voila! I understand you way too well, and I am so sorry that they lack enough common sense to put that sort of private information up online. The pay version is a one time 30 bucks. When I started genealogy research 2 years ago I was grateful to find information on loved ones. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. I have contacted them and they refuse to remove it. 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. Yet, often it is the only remaining record about a person's survivors, due to the fact that Ancestry does not have all possible records indexed. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. We'd love to hear from you. I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. 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. Some families just want 2 be left alone without rehashing family ties. Find A Grave - Has no check against rampant fraud. 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 . If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line For those who have the fee-subscription database of Ancestry.com, they have the Find A Grave indexed when you are searching for an ancestor. 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. Memorial: Mary Payne ([protected]) Unlike Western thought Mormons do not believe in a trinity and some deny Christ as the son of God. 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. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. Celine McKay If you are not satisfied with the response, you may contact the customer support team. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. Forms, by Agency Find a U.S. federal government form by choosing the agency that publishes it. Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. The bottom line some families just want to be left alone. This account has been disabled. Within 5 kilometers of your location. 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. who never knew her. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. Wasted my timeFind A Grave has changed a lot since it changed hands. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. 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. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. It is in fact not precious hard work, it is simply walking around and taking pictures of graves. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. Some important ways to determine whether a cemetery exists on a particular tract of land include: (1) checking old deeds and property records; (2) checking old maps; (3) talking with long-time local residents; (4) searching for sunken areas on the property that seem to be oriented east to west; (5) looking for Vinca minor (cemetery ivy) and (6) Complaining usually happens in the wake of a negative. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. In many cases the correct markers can't be located or definitely identified, especially when they are old. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. 04/17/2022 I do a few memorials for family and friends. I returned home yesterday from out of town, having just attended his funeral. You've closed your mind to anything other . When burial details are unknown, Ancestry has a "global" index for this. 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. BEWARE of this websites. if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. My mother-in-law's site is totally inaccurate; says where she's buried. Historic Oakland Cemetery A kind, generous, and gentle man, he was born on August 18, 1933 in Claiborne County. Salt Lake City UT. 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. I don't see the anguish. Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. What is the Find a Grave Community? The mechanics do not work like you were brainwashed to believe. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. we are adults providing precious information to those who cannot visit a grave site. Find A Grave has many untrue information. 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! More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. this fraud is a sociopathic means of lying and a person getting their false praise and getting money for their prostitution. If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. I have a person doing that with my relatives on my grandparents side of the family and he refuses to turn them over to me. My lawyer has been contacted. Nothing has been done and I'm upset! Ruby is right. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Well, Sharon Haywood, many of the volunteers here don't even hold an ounce of respect when they do this. This bored housewife manages OVER 8,600 memorials and ignores requests to transfer. 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. They just would not listen. File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I tried to inform Find A Gave of the issue but to no avail. Bill Sky-Eagle. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Why do you care so much? Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. They do nothing about it. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. So, NO the I wouldn't trust anyone who did genealogy research using Find A Grave. Jul 19 2017. they think that, if your photo is put there, you will die fast. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. all people have their own rights or privacy even if they die. I have no issue with someone adding OLD graves they found while walking the cemeteries.
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