If you don't like it, just log off. Please try again later. Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. Sharon Haywood. Not true. 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. 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 it because it helps many people to feel closer to a loved one. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. ----- 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. ^^^^^Seems to me that they are taking advantage of the people doing the photography. 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. With no regard for the family Megan Heyl also added time sensitive material that is really none of her business i.e. 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. They were being my managed by Patsy Lubben DiMarco who IGNORES transfer requests. Find A Grave has many untrue information. Please contact me within 14 business days, or you will be hearing from my attorney. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. From there this dysfunctional woman took over my mother's memorial in addition to the already 50,000 memorials she has under her belt. Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. It's that easy. If you don't have cemetery burial information they shouldn't be put up. I have no way to access to my account. Your second argument of unknown dispositions do not make sense, especially in the cases of my and Eddie Jones' Reviews. This comment was posted by a verified customer. So any suggestions? I dont think anyone takes photos of headstones to hurt anyone but only to help others find where their ancestors/relatives were laid to rest and to preserve history. Claim it and get a lot of features. Dear Sirs, My Find a Grave ID is: [protected] My heart goes out to you. but you know sir. Then you are suspended. She claims she has THE RIGHT to document what she pleases. Nothing has been done and I'm upset! I gladly turn them over to family members who want to put information and pictures. Unlike Western thought Mormons do not believe in a trinity and some deny Christ as the son of God. Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. The family moved to the Mohawk Community in Greene County when Tom was three years old because the Norris Dam took their farm. Legally and geneticly they are not related at all. Which legally or DNA wise is not a relation. By scanning the Internet, you can find and save more than 180 million graves worldwide. Find A Grave is one of the free resources online that you can tap into to get the clues that you are after. Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. 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. The new marker really looked nice. If anyone asks me to remove their family members headstone I will gladly do so, if you can prove you are a direct relative. having headstone does not mean they can not enjoy privacy. I only post a headstone photo that I personally have taken and sometimes link a person to a spouse. That also shows me that this person's hobby is spending constant hours on Find a Grave for her/his number count. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. 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. No. If someone was cremated and the ashes given to someone, there is no cemetery. For all legal purposes, it is not your loved one, it is a memorial for your loved one. Man it's their photo not your photo. Gatsey, check Find A Grave's Help section to make sure you are sending your messages to the correct email address. 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. Not true! It was sudden, he was in the prime of his life. Megan Heyl to give my son back. I am sorry that your loved one has passed. Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. Can I charge money as a Photo Volunteer? It is very obvious that he is upset with Find-A-Grave. this fraud is a sociopathic means of lying and a person getting their false praise and getting money for their prostitution. A community of members that work together, share information and help people from all over the world to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience. 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! 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 very few privately owned cemeteries in the US. 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. Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. theft is wrong. 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.rational .they.r.private cemeteries and have Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. Get a life. Findagrave has mounted information against my permission, and I'm having to retain an attorney because of find-a-grave's unscrupulous behavior. Sharon, if I may say, you are ridiculous. 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? Many contain personal info that many families wish 2 keep private. We are not associated with the cemetery and don't have any information beyond what the community has added. So what does that tell you about this person with over 1, 000, 000 memorials added? the site should really remove that photo especially if your 6-yr daugther had not died. All that info is gone now! Anyone walking a cemetery can find DOB. 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. Then have one of their major contributers take over ur memorial. Sad life when people have nothing better to do with their time. 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. There is a problem with your email/password. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. 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 agree with you Singatune, Terminate Brenda Beatty McGraw. Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. I could not have been able to see my fathers grave plot at all. 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. Many f## people are very unfriednly, when ladybug reported you, findagrave banned you so you can NOT see anything. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. REMOVE THE SUBJECT MEMORIAL: [protected], This person Brenda Beatty McGraw, working for Find a Grave constantly documents false vital statistics concerning my family tree. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. 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. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. And yes, they are a husband-wife . I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. There should be no emotional attachment on the part of a picture taker. How ridiculous! This is not precious. He died on 16 Nov 1620 aboard the Mayflower, a fact which you can easily validate with a Bing search. Sometimes if you ask nicely, someone will comply with your wishes. And sharon shout out loud "this is my precious hard work" Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. When I confronted this whale of a whale to relinquished ownership and return the memorial back to me I was banned. Stone doesn't last forever . 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). nobody would really be happy with findagrave anymore.! Anyone else wants to make "corrections", like a bored housewife, YOU get to decline. The day of publicly available data is here and increases daily. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. To use this feature, use a newer browser. waste of taxpayer money. So yeah! 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. send in corrections! If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. Find contact information for federal, state, and local government officials. Ms. DiMarco is a complete stranger who has NO familial ties to these memorials. I take GREAT pride in linking people with their deceased family members to connect these families, piece them back together, after death. 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 . So, it's a crap shoot, but some do turn them over. I have contacted them and they refuse to remove it. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. 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. Good luck! She's also violating her fiduciary role as a "Findagrave" volunteer. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? 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. There have been 250K claims filed against the government. Do you want your child forgotten? 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. So Ancestry is breaking Find a Grave's guidelines. These ghouls harvest photos from non private trees and then post the info on Find A Grave. . 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 Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? If you are having problems with your account or have questions about content on the site, please use the Account Question or Support Request option. Send Find a Grave a PM on FB and let them know you want memorials transferred. You must include a valid cemetery ID or URL. 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). now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. It has nothing to do with a grave or burial plot. FINDAGRAVE and ANCESTRY.COM are owned by the same people. My condolences to you and your family. That's life. Thanks for your help! When confronted they claim they r performing.a service if families want it or not. 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. Many people enjoy walking through cemeteries and taking pictures. 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. We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. 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. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com 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. The emotional stress this is causing my family is tremendous ! Precious hard work needs to respect copyright, do u understand, sharon haywood She manages OVER 8,600 memorials and made a ton of mistakes on my parents memorials. 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. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. Use this form for website feedback and suggestions to improve how the website works. 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. Findagrave is a profitable business. This includes both general and info of a more private nature that most families do nor want published on the net. The info on him was compiled by several members, and info from members of the Montgomery county Md. from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin I lost my daughter in 1978. Celine McKay Findagrave is gross and obscene. I am amazed at people who have done 20, 000+ headstones, don't they have a life. [1] Find a Grave used a photo of me for someone else. FuryH, I asked that they please have the spouse or parents of that person contact me and I'd be glad to do whatever they wished but I wouldn't remove it from just that email. I have had Bios i wrote stolen and posted elsewhere with no mention of me writing those. It's totally against what their mission is. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. Owner block you. Most likely FindAGrave will also threaten u with law enforcement for stalking in addition to legal action. Historical Society. 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. Voila! If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. because if her friends/her classmates/classmates parents. I got a kick from this off their faq page: Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? Yes, I know what they are supposed to do.. posts. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. Not just steal. think how bad it would mean. I don't see the point in the complaint. if NJ harass, report to findagrave. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. 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. 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. Find a Grave - Online Search. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. Are you going to say "facebook is public, not yours. Read full review of Find A Grave and 1 comment. Furthermore, nobody actually "owns" a grave. But this past month has been a nightmare. 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). 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. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. There are spelling errors and incorrect info. He had joined the army when he was about 18 and spent the first few years in Ireland. Find A Grave is a database of known final dispositions. Was unaware of postings for my 8 year old daughter and recently deceased mother-in-law. The fact alone that you are completely disregarding this mothers concerns shows how much you actually care. 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. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. they suspended you like how they suspended me right today. It is a place to record cemeteries. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. Find A Grave is also owed by Mormons who get browie points 4 baptising the dead into their faith. But the living do have feelings and find grave ghouls violate confidentiality. Prehistoric grave sites contain fragile, easily destroyed remains. Hi Sharon! - 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 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. 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. Is this your company? I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. Not you wish to steal you go steal, then claim that photo is own by yourself. My mother-in-law's site is totally inaccurate; says where she's buried. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. 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. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. In memory of your daughter, why don't you start a family tree of your own, for your relatives and descendants to enjoy. findagrave can no longer secure any dead grave names. 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". However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. we are adults providing precious information to those who cannot visit a grave site. The information on six posts are false and falsely placed according to statements of family and or records listed. If you don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). Find a Grave is a volunteer project. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. She means, if she goes around grave, to glorify herself and her findagrave records. Grave Matters Chuck and Kristy Robinett. We welcome you to Grave Matters. I have only been a member maybe 6 months I would never delete anyones work. Added almost 3000 memorials. That's obscene. Chuck's claim to fame is being an expert at useless knowledge. Find A Grave is open to anyone creating a memorial for a deceased person with a known disposition. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. I got threatened with police action because the evil administrators refused to give my account back after it was removed. That's a lot of money. I wish you good luck and I hope they've taken it down, I sincerely apologize for what you must be/have been going through/went through. As for it being private, we all are public knowledge now and after we die. When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. They don't care if their site is riddled with viruses and unsuspecting computer catch it.