I cannot get back in F.A.G. Memorials of: Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected], Untrue Information Re: Memorial #[protected], Uneven application of Find a Grave guidelines, Read full review of Find A Grave and 4 comments, Read full review of Find A Grave and 6 comments, 16 years' experience in successful complaint resolution, Each complaint is handled individually by highly qualified experts, Last but not least, all our services are absolutely free. I have contacted them and they refuse to remove it. FindAGrave also threatened me with legal action if I took it any further. 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. Desired outcome: The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. We had collected written history of his life and contributions to Montgomery county Md. Spare me. 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. And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may contact the customer support team. You create a Memorial for a deceased loved one. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? 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 is also owed by Mormons who get browie points 4 baptising the dead into their faith. So I've been a member of [censored] for about About 3 months now, and the only reason I entered the website was to find my ancestors and connect a few branches. The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customers satisfaction. 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 I'm pretty sure I know whose behind this, I have figured it out. I tried to inform Find A Gave of the issue but to no avail. She means, if she goes around grave, to glorify herself and her findagrave records. Review the Help section for answers to the most common questions. Also F.A.G says they award points, so beef with them. 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. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. They are more interested in grabbing a tombstone in hopes of getting brownie points. you regretted your parents and teachers who teach you every knowledge. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. The new marker really looked nice. Read full review of Find A Grave and 1 comment. compete on how many records make is useless. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. Solution: Make a new account, follow the rules, and be nice. I am the last of my family and I even submitted a copy of my birth certificate showing relation. This person will not answer my emails and the police have located him. Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. 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 . These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. Desired outcome: Many contain personal info that many families wish 2 keep private. If you have information that would help us update details about a cemetery on the site, please let us know. Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. 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. My complaint is with the new change to the website, I lost the links that were on the old webpage that linked my family members together. It's actually not "funny" (your word) that other people are skirting the Find A Grave rules while you attempted to do so as well. I respect a families wishes whenever possible but in this instance it appears it was his daughter wanting it removed although her siblings wanted it to stay. 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 are getting fresh air and exercise. 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.. 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 Not just steal. They are by states of where the person was buried. especially if the girl is even NOT DEAD YET. You will get no place arguing with FindAGrave's hierarchy or major contributors. I dont like findagrave too. I feel it is their family member and they should be allowed to honor them. We'd love to hear from you. Complaints Ignored As New Find A Grave Site Is Getting Worse This person stalks and harasses me by following my flowers i leave on thousands of memorials. I am a contributor with over 800 memorials added, mostly from the 1800's. Get those cheap skates to pay you! 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. Method 1 Searching Individual Headstones 1 Visit the cemetery if you know where it is. If prehistoric or unmarked burials are encountered, stop work immediately and contact the THC's Archeology Division for advice at 512-463-6096, or archeology@thc.texas.gov. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. 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. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. Please try again later. Kind regards. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. Solution: move the ad block below the flowers or thin it out so that it's not as intrusive - in fact, that's the solution for ALL of the ads on Find A Grave. now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. This account has been disabled. It all boils down to how well you play with others. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some Anyone walking a cemetery can find DOB. 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." Your second argument of unknown dispositions do not make sense, especially in the cases of my and Eddie Jones' Reviews. I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin you have no right to privacy. You are one of a kind, Findagrave administrators steal my family pages from me and change them. Click here to get notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. There are very few privately owned cemeteries in the US. Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. They do nothing about it. 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. You're not alone in your complaint. 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. I gladly turn them over to family members who want to put information and pictures. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. How FindAGrave Could - and Should - Be Made Better When burial details are unknown, Ancestry has a "global" index for this. I have contacted Find A Grave and even submitted a copy of my birth certificate and they have done nothing. information was given on three people is on people that are still alive ; so cause of death listed incorrectly, since people are still alive, not d e a d! Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. You haven't done anything wrong. So Ancestry is breaking Find a Grave's guidelines. You wrote: So any suggestions? The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. "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. I was born in 1978 but sorry for your daughter. if you not know the person, you take their headstone, put on findagrave. Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. From there this dysfunctional woman took over my mother's memorial in addition to the already 50,000 memorials she has under her belt. 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. see that photo on findagrave site. Yes, I know what they are supposed to do.. 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. God Speed. Drawbacks to Find-a-grave's "non-cemetery burials" 04/17/2022 I do a few memorials for family and friends. 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 can still look at stuff, I just cant add anything, correct anything, or do ANYTHING at all. This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. TAKE IT DOWN you ###! So I am very sorry for your loss, as I still have pot gotten over mine, fortunately for me, I now have a nine year old granddaughter from my son. If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. What I do know is this tracking down ancestor graves is HARD work. Find a Grave used a photo of me for someone else. Now the problem is that you don't have an account so there's no where to transfer the memorial to. 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. Concerns Anne McKay buried in Templeogue cemetery,Dublin,Ireland- date of death 13 February 1962. 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. family or friends can call findagrave to delete unallowed photographs on their family/friend's tombstones. 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). Removing pics at their request is Respect. I too thought that direct family should include aunts and uncles. It is owned by Ancestry and Ancestry is not owned by the church. This allows people to add tombstones they come across in their cemetery explorations . You can suggest additions or corrections and the manager can choose to use those to improve the memorial. If someone was cremated and the ashes given to someone, there is no cemetery. That's what you want the memorials you want to control transferred to you. 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 am sure you can find another forum for that discussion. Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? they suspended you like how they suspended me right today. Find A Grave is a free website providing access to and an opportunity to input cemetery information to an online database of cemetery records. My sister's grave is on this site, Eilleen Sien of Colonia, N.J Contacted me by phone and Face Book, my Family DID NOT WANT this information posted! To find cemetery records for New York in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps: Go to the FamilySearch Catalog Enter: New York in the Place box Click on: Search Click on: Cemeteries To search for cemeteries at the county level follow directions below Go to the FamilySearch Catalog Enter: New York in the Place box Click on: Search A short while later while attempting to add more to the child's photo I found out I was no longer in charge of the site. 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). Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. Use it to search for burial information and gravestone images among the 160 million online memorials volunteers have logged at Find A Grave. This is totally wrong. if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. or else. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. Failure of Wendy Ebenstein Norman to transfer my grandfather's Memorial Page to me, after numerous requests. They don't care if their site is riddled with viruses and unsuspecting computer catch it. It may seem shocking to someone unfamiliar with this whos just lost someone young, but please know nothing bad is intended. And They do not need member ID or profile link. It is disturbing that Ancestry has television commercials depicting African Americans searching for their ancestors, when so many records remain un-indexed and hidden from discovery. Ancestry manages Find a Grave. He had joined the army when he was about 18 and spent the first few years in Ireland. 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. Youll find helpful information about your account here or you can use this form to send us questions about account issues. Find A Grave Reviews, Complaints, Customer Service Find A Grave is not owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. That's life. Find a Grave on the App Store For some cemeteries, it is against their policy to allow pic taking/give plot info to non-family for security/privacy purposes. Chances are you will find the cemetery you are looking for. My sister's children are in their 20's they do not want to go to or see her grave. All in all, I will say it again. Historic Oakland Cemetery This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Users upload photos of headstones and memorials, transcriptions of engravings, biographical information and links to family members. Gin, if Find A Grave has taken over management of your memorials, your account has been shut down by Find A Grave. U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. 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. That's a lot of money. Forms, by Agency Find a U.S. federal government form by choosing the agency that publishes it. Ask the Community. Weve updated the security on the site. Then rebaptize the dead into the Mormon faith. Why would anyone think it's OK to post biographical information like this about an 8 year old? You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Plan to go early in the day, in case it takes you a while to find the exact location. Find A Grave Review: Scam - ComplaintsBoard.com how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. BBB Scam Tracker Still Need Assistance? Sherry Maccanico, Desired outcome: It is a disgusting desecration on my sister's grave and memory! 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. A Grave .Com ? who never knew her. I am absolutely revolted! You then control exactly what's on the memorial. What is the Find a Grave Community? By CVal, 2 hours ago. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Brought in dead to The Meath Hospital, Heytesbury Street, Dublin, having had a Coronary Occlusion & Paroxysmal Tachycardia, certified Really? She can even risk to take grave photos unauthorized They play on emotions. Mormons believe u enter the after life based on "works" namely procreation, In life Mormons collect huge volumes of data. He must of went through the grave yard and saw this grave with my nephews middle name and last name on his temporary marker. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? if you harass the creatoer or the grave page owner, they will report you harass them and they will ban your profile in findagrave. However if u r a 3rd party vendor.such.is the case with.FindAGrave photo taking strictly forbidden. How to Find a Person's Grave - dummies This is very basic courtesy. I have sent this person several messages and no response there will be action taken against her too. An alternative - Forever Missed. theft is wrong. I never heard back so it's still there. 42.5k. Showing 1-1 | Showing Page 1 of 1. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. SO HELP OUT! Wasted my timeFind A Grave has changed a lot since it changed hands. Find a Grave IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? Find a Grave is an online community project. 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. Megan Heyl to give my son back. A findagrave monitor is removing our confederate veterans tokens of respect and replacing them with hideous looking fake purple violets. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. I've created over a thousand memorials and thousands of photos, some were by request, others not. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line This complaint was posted by a verified customer. We all have ancestors we like to memorialize. My thoughts were not on the heartless soul collectors of Find A Grave when I heard the news. Nasty sorry this happened to you it certainly shouldnt happened. I am wandering am I, going to have to pay Ancestery .Com now for all the info that was suppose to be free on find. My last name - there only 7 of us suppose to be as.Actually only 2ofbus and the rest wife and children. + Locate grave sites of your loved ones through . I am amazed at people who have done 20, 000+ headstones, don't they have a life. For all legal purposes, it is not your loved one, it is a memorial for your loved one. You really don't need all the drama FindAGrave's hierarchy throws in your face. No one asked you to meddle in family ties It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. Top 7 Best Cemetery Apps for Locating Ancestors - Family Tree Magazine Instead, FindAGrave turned the memorial over to one of their major contributors, a Megan Heyl on the grounds she was the expert concerning my family. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. SO HELP OUT! 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. Find A Grave Review - Genealogy Explained the important is all funeral and headstone photos must be authorized and legitimate and the owner let you use. She refused. Is this your company? this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. I, just like you, add individual memorials so that future generations can utilize the information as they may need or want. She's also violating her fiduciary role as a "Findagrave" volunteer. Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. But why bother. I don't see the point in the complaint. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. 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". 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 . send in corrections! However, I owe much to volunteers on the site who have posted information that I would never have been able to obtain without a major roadtrip with a quick visit to the website. My response is that there are too many members on Find A Grave who do NOT follow the rules. Please contact me within 14 business days, or you will be hearing from my attorney. I have had Bios i wrote stolen and posted elsewhere with no mention of me writing those. Find A Grave | FindAGrave.com Review Sad life when people have nothing better to do with their time. Unless a person trespasses on to a privately owned plot/cemetery that is NOT owned or operated by a non-profit or the county/state, we are not infringing on your privacy. their own unique way of cataloging data. TeeJLee, From my and others' experience, findagrave sends messages via every email. aged 43, married 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. However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. I asked for a transfer but got NO RESPONSE. I really do not care what other people think, or if it is public record. Find contact information for federal, state, and local government officials. Personal Services: Find A Grave. Most people defending this site use finding a passed family member from hundreds of years ago as an excuse, and I understand that, however I do not understand that they take pictures of children only recently passed. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. 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. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. I probably could get it back if I bought Megan Heyl a cart load of cheezos. "Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online," wrote the user. It's only a website. All this and more with just a few taps. Find A Grave deceptive, rip off, scam Salt Lake City, UT. Please enter your email and password to sign in. If the family wants their relatives and has proved the relationship, then their request should be honored. 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. Interesting. Find A Grave | FindAGrave.com User Reviews Ask the Community "How do I?" questions about the Find a Grave website. I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. My mother-in-law's site is totally inaccurate; says where she's buried. And Nothing was ever done. Kristy is an internationally known Psychic Medium and Psychic Detective. The bottom-lineNot every family wants to be part of "Find A Grave's internet kingdom." 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 am 13 years old and I understand this more than the adults doing this out of "the kindness of their hearts." Many people enjoy walking through cemeteries and taking pictures. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. If you don't have cemetery burial information they shouldn't be put up. Not even the ones I paid to sponsor! Sure, sure if you're anal enough to enjoy all that cataloging and picture takin, etc then fine, but your getting screwed and smiling about it Might want to learn some self respect. Finally, ### is neither all bad or all good, but some issues need to be addressed in civilized matter and in fairness to all users. answer me one thing. The pay version is a one time 30 bucks. Did I post the information of the drunk teenager that killed her? No, that's not what it means. actually you should not find ladybug person. So much unneccesary stress its to the point I consider suicide. Kind regards, I am sorry that your loved one has passed. I have been a member of FindaGrave for many years. I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. However there is not a lot that can be done about it. Some person going by Ladybug (member #[protected]) {note doesn't even use a REAL name, address, email, etc.} It was sudden, he was in the prime of his life. 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!