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And yes, they are a husband-wife . cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. 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. having headstone does not mean they can not enjoy privacy. STOP HOLDING MY GRANDPARENTS MEMORIALS HOSTAGE ! Several plans available. 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. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. Find a Grave - Online Search. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. this is quite/very serious. That also shows me that this person's hobby is spending constant hours on Find a Grave for her/his number count. Also F.A.G says they award points, so beef with them. However if u r a 3rd party vendor.such.is the case with.FindAGrave photo taking strictly forbidden. The new "Complaints" page was created by the same person, Mr. Pritchard, who contributed the 13 complaints. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. She refused. Manager bases their reasoning for not correcting this on a cemetery advertisement that was below my loved one's obituary and responded that "you don't know what you're talking about." We have set your language to Find A Grave is open to anyone creating a memorial for a deceased person with a known disposition. There was a find a grave worker in Bastrop County, Texas I made a photo request of one of my great great great uncle who was born in the 1800's this gentleman took his time to go and take that picture when it was uploaded on the website and I got a email that the pictures once there I was in tears and was so grateful because I do not live near the county.So will everyone please calm down and do not turn this into a savage match, because this website is a blessing to some of us maybe not all but there are some of us out here that appreciate this website and wish it to stay on the website. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. Your argument is that findagrave is an open, safe space for individuals who can create memorials of family members and friends. It is very obvious that he is upset with Find-A-Grave. I've been sent many messages of great thanks for doing so, including from many adoptees. Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? Ruby is right. In most cases they don't. Do u know. My comment is not directed at those who do it for their own genealogy or add friends. 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. View social follower numbers, contact emails, reviews and podcasts like Grave Matters. I probably could get it back if I bought Megan Heyl a cart load of cheezos. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Speaking for myself the answer is NO. So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Nuff said. 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. The person who has my grandparents on his list of memorials has 25, 000 and has been there for 15 years. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. For all legal purposes, it is not your loved one, it is a memorial for your loved one. 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. Sharon Haywood. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. TAKE IT DOWN you ###! It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. So, NO the I wouldn't trust anyone who did genealogy research using Find A Grave. If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. My nephew passed on new year's eve. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. This allows people to add tombstones they come across in their cemetery explorations . That sucks. Learn how to play nice. When I protested FindAGrave blocked my isp and booted me out. SO HELP OUT! 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 Do you want your child forgotten? And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? Forums - Find a Grave Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. 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. 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. 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. In other words, if the contact person is "not accepting messages, " and they do this intentionally, you won't be able to reach them, to request management control. Is this your company? Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? 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 ? That's life. True Crime. what is findagrave, answer me. Find A Grave - Has no check against rampant fraud. I don't see the point in the complaint. "Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect dealing with this." Memorials of: Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected], You get no place trying to get find a grave ghouls to transfer memorials back to the family even though it is protocal to do so. Find a Grave is an online community project. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. Kind regards, The bottom line some families just want to be left alone. 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. Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? Historic Oakland Cemetery What is your experience with Find A Grave? Editor's Review: Find A Grave is a free resource for finding burial places and headstones around the world. 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. Gin, if Find A Grave has taken over management of your memorials, your account has been shut down by Find A Grave. 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 . better not put personal photos online(esp girl naked photos). R.L. Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. see that photo on findagrave site. To a point, I don't blame him. if you put your daughter photo online, anyone can also use it without letting you know 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. I've done a small number of photo requests from the site at a local cemetery. But unlike FindAGrave you are in control and its you who decide on what data is included in the memorial. Not just steal. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section. I have been in a cemetery when a church group of about 30 swooped in and started downloading headstones. Solution: Make a new account, follow the rules, and be nice. So much unneccesary stress its to the point I consider suicide. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. TeeJLee, What process? cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. 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. When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. When posting pictures it is proper to cite the owner of the photograph. Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. PropertyProf Blog - Typepad Other details can be found and verified on one of the family history websites - some of which are free. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. From there this dysfunctional woman took over my mother's memorial in addition to the already 50,000 memorials she has under her belt. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. Previously, I had a friend write me my other experience on 'people who hate memorials listed as burial details unknown'. Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'. Really? Was unaware of postings for my 8 year old daughter and recently deceased mother-in-law. Sometimes someone doesn't live up to our expectations. And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. I have been a member of FindaGrave for many years. Weve updated the security on the site. putting undead people photo on die site. . I haven't had any problems with anyone or them, so don't have a clue what is going on. That Find a Grave be consistent. I'm pretty sure I know whose behind this, I have figured it out. I want to RIP. There are many kind and helpful people on F/A/G. The answer is NO and she's not going to respond to emails. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. Oftentimes, there is information about about other members of that persons family included. The pay version is a one time 30 bucks. And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. This comment was posted by a verified customer. 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. Choose a topic below to begin. We are no longer private people. we are adults providing precious information to those who cannot visit a grave site. Interesting. And if we are being honest, in the moments of grief and loss no one wants to look like an *** by taking a photo at the funeral and the pain families struggle with for weeks, months and even years later prevent most families from ever doing it. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. Anyone who makes a free FindAGrave account can add memorial pages. It may seem shocking to someone unfamiliar with this whos just lost someone young, but please know nothing bad is intended. FindAGrave also threatened me with legal action if I took it any further. I use it to the best of my ability to help others. My condolences to you and your family. 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 I understand why it is a blessing to some people, however it does in fact invade the privacy of many families. For some cemeteries, it is against their policy to allow pic taking/give plot info to non-family for security/privacy purposes. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. The info on him was compiled by several members, and info from members of the Montgomery county Md. Furthermore, nobody actually "owns" a grave. "Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online," wrote the user. especially if the girl is even NOT DEAD YET. 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. unlist the current cemetery. Which legally or DNA wise is not a relation. I don't see reasons for the anguish. Contact Your Local BBB Your local Better Business Bureau can assist you with finding businesses and. Find A Grave FamilySearch Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. Chances are you will find the cemetery you are looking for. They typically do that when a member has a long history of violating their site policies. Graves do not have copyrights either. I am sure you can find another forum for that discussion. I have no way to access to my account. They are allowing another Administrator SMS to steal and/ or remove original profiles to make it their own. 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! Too bad someone doesn't start a class action lawsuit against "Find A Grave." Good luck ! i visited the cemetery he is buried at and i did not find his grave. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some Find a Grave I was wondering if they shut down. But this past month has been a nightmare. This person has harassed me even on created memorials I worked hard on. After reading this post I know now who killed Vaudeville, Forest Lawn/LA (the cemetery of the stars) have a policy regarding photos. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! 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. Use this form for website feedback and suggestions to improve how the website works. Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. You will get no place arguing with FindAGrave's hierarchy or major contributors. Nothing is sacred here. Government Agencies and Elected Officials | USAGov I have visit grave site that someone had taken a picture of headstones by the time I got there years later the headstone was clean and more visible. This is the result of 698 total reviews. Added almost 3000 memorials. 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). This is an ethics issue here ! Are you upset with public death certificates published online? The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? 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. 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. They steal my records, my photos and basically my deceased family. 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. All in all, I will say it again. We had collected written history of his life and contributions to Montgomery county Md. But the living do have feelings and find grave ghouls violate confidentiality. especially those from earlier days. I am the last of my family and I even submitted a copy of my birth certificate showing relation. who never knew her. 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. Somehow my email address was changed and I am no longer allowed to sign in as info comes up "does not match" I have written to Finda Grave many times requesting a correction. Nothing has changed and no one has contacted me regarding the matter. By the time I got home 2 hours later my family was already loaded. It should be "well I've got more than you do" what are you 5? I have contacted the prosecutor and state police. I would email the cemetery asking if they could please verify whether or not John Flint, birth date-death date, is indeed buried there. They're making a tidy bundle off of your work. If I was that person whose picture is there I would be very upset. When confronted they claim they r performing.a service if families want it or not. There should be no emotional attachment on the part of a picture taker. 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 ? I contacted FindAGrave and they ignored my requests even though their new rules of conduct r very explicit that when confronted these "major contributors" supposed to turn memorials back to the family. FINDAGRAVE and ANCESTRY.COM are owned by the same people. Personal Services: Find A Grave. Not even the ones I paid to sponsor! I am sorry that your loved one has passed. Find A Grave does not allow Photo Volunteers to charge money for volunteering. No one asked you to meddle in family ties Wasted my timeFind A Grave has changed a lot since it changed hands. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. She manages OVER 8,600 memorials and made a ton of mistakes on my parents memorials. Although, I bet you could associate ANY activity as a contest - you seem to have a GIANT chip on your shoulder about this. About the company This site has been active for more than 20 years, first appearing online way back in 1995. However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. all people have their own rights or privacy even if they die. posts. If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. I have been a member of Find-A-Grave for close to 9 months and submitted over a thousand photos and memorials that many people are grateful to find. 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. So yeah! FindAGrave Administrators- Caleb, Mikenna, and Amber. 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! Find A Grave deceptive, rip off, scam Salt Lake City, UT. There are tons of memorials created every day with information about surviving relatives; but Find a Grave allows it, as long as nobody says anything. Find a Grave used a photo of me for someone else. There was a problem getting your location. A. 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. He died on 16 Nov 1620 aboard the Mayflower, a fact which you can easily validate with a Bing search. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" i was disappointed because i have been looking for his interment for years but i was even more disapointed when the owner of the memorial refused to change the listed cemetery i emailed find a grave about this and it took them 1 month to respond they told me that if i could not prove they aren't buried there then they will help. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. If u r family or tourists u can take photos. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. This is a warped site managed by sub human creatures that crawled out from public sewers. internet is free to use. I contacted the support team and had two replies, then nothing but silence for close to a month now in regards to managing the pages of the people that raised me (blood related). You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. 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. I am not dead, yet! how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. Also sending me arrogant emails in response to my disapproval. They stated I was 'harassing' them, despite me trying to calm the situation to get my account restored. 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. It is purely disgusting what they do, I understand the bit of finding relatives and such, however adding details like that is just revolting. How Ancestry.com's Find A Grave Encourages Bad Actors and Bad Data All the information I had compiled on John Hanson Gassaway2 . Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. 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. Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. You are one of a kind, Findagrave administrators steal my family pages from me and change them. I only record what is mentioned on the stone. Desired outcome: Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. 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. In my case I created a memoral 4 my Grandmother and also a memorial for a favoured child who died in infancy. (they are in many places) Marriages and divorces? I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. I am absolutely revolted! Search 502,691 cemeteries in 243 different countries. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. If you want to create a memorial for a loved one and be free of Find A Grave ghouls go to "Forever Missed." Open to both member questions and member answers. We can resolve this issue. Plan to go early in the day, in case it takes you a while to find the exact location. 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 Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. The same thing has happened to me and my suggestion never went through. Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. U can also change photos and music any time u wantno restrictions. I had been a member for several years. We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. Find a Grave - Wikipedia Some person going by Ladybug (member #[protected]) {note doesn't even use a REAL name, address, email, etc.} My sister's children are in their 20's they do not want to go to or see her grave. I'll write again to let everyone know the outcome of this. I don't see the point in the complaint. Find A Grave is one of the free resources online that you can tap into to get the clues that you are after. 4 Annoying Problems With Find A Grave's New Website Explore All Topics and Services on USA.gov Top Home Funeral Services Grave Solutions Grave Solutions 224 inquiries | Funeral Services File Complaint All Photos | Videos 1134 Round Pebble Ln Reston, VA 20194-1016 | Get Directions (703) 742-4678 Company Rating B View Rating Explanation based on 0 reviews. 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.

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