We are no longer private people. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. 04/17/2022 I do a few memorials for family and friends. I am sorry that your loved one has passed. If you follow the process, you can get the change made - but it isn't a speedy process. not all people know your daughter had not really died. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. For more information about the cemetery or burials within it or buying a plot, you should contact the cemetery directly. Mormons believe u enter the after life based on "works" namely procreation, In life Mormons collect huge volumes of data. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. Thank you in advance for your help in resolving this stalemate. However there is not a lot that can be done about it. In memory of your daughter, why don't you start a family tree of your own, for your relatives and descendants to enjoy. 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 personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. My advice.. Salt Lake City UT. STRONGLY Agree. I, just like you, add individual memorials so that future generations can utilize the information as they may need or want. We may not have all the burials in a given cemetery, just those that people have added. He then served for four and a half. theft is wrong. 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]. You can always change this later in your Account settings. now findagrave deletes burial records and members now. 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. We are not associated with the cemetery and don't have any information beyond what the community has added. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. 07:27 PM. I know this person and his family . Gatsey, check Find A Grave's Help section to make sure you are sending your messages to the correct email address. Search above to list available cemeteries. Why would anyone think it's OK to post biographical information like this about an 8 year old? Furthermore, nobody actually "owns" a grave. So any suggestions? Hi Sharon! FindAGrave is LSD an extension of the Mormon Church. 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 am the last of my family and I even submitted a copy of my birth certificate showing relation. everyone should be equal and should have privacy. When a member will not relinquish a memorial to a direct family member (as stated in the rules), then they are breaking the rules and they should loose their privilege to use Find A Grave. Brought in dead to The Meath Hospital, Heytesbury Street, Dublin, having had a Coronary Occlusion & Paroxysmal Tachycardia, certified Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. I do it because it helps many people to feel closer to a loved one. Ask the Community. Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. Many private cemeteries have banned FindAGravd's top contributor cyber ghouls from taking photos of tombstones. 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 lost my daughter in 1978. 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. Find a Grave states that this is against their guidelines. Billion graves have a lot of stones too. I have had Bios i wrote stolen and posted elsewhere with no mention of me writing those. But thanks for hijacking this thread. Be aware, many of these idiots will NOT give you management and when you contact findagrave.com they don't care. I think Find a Grave is a great site, but, I'm a little concerned with some certain people postings, especially on my ancestors that have been posted by people who do not do the research or who put in the wrong information. She's also violating her fiduciary role as a "Findagrave" volunteer. We'd love to hear from you. 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. This website uses future generations as an excuse to take photos of children, babies, adults, of all ages and post them online. The point hasn't anything to do with the validity of Find A Grave, but rather do you want you family added to their lists and plastered all over the net. Terminate Brenda Beatty McGraw. - 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. Jul 19 2017. 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. Choose a topic below to begin. And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line In most cases they don't. 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. Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. Ancestry manages Find a Grave. My older brother was put up on findagrave without my family's permission, which my mother found out about years ago, and she wasn't given a reply when she requested to have it removed. She refused. "Tom" Carpenter, age 84, passed from life to eternal life on Wednesday. [1] God Speed. She flatly refuses to give it up. (They want to email Ms. DiMarco to ask if shes related to MY grandparents). I can only hope I outlive him, so I can reclaim my family. I only post a headstone photo that I personally have taken and sometimes link a person to a spouse. FindAGrave Administrators- Caleb, Mikenna, and Amber. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" It was founded in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident, Jim Tipton. I've created over a thousand memorials and thousands of photos, some were by request, others not. We have set your language to I am a contributor with over 800 memorials added, mostly from the 1800's. We welcome you to Grave Matters. It is very obvious that he is upset with Find-A-Grave. R.L. 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. 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. I don't see the point in the complaint. So you are one of those obnoxious [censored]s who think that if there isn't a burial, then there isn't a point in adding it? 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 . If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: When you're visiting a cemetery, the app lets you upload inscription data and photos of graves you visit, and fulfill others' requests for pictures of their ancestors' gravesites. There are many kind and helpful people on F/A/G. If the family wants their relatives and has proved the relationship, then their request should be honored. 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. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? This is stealing/theft/vandalism. SO HELP OUT! With no regard for the family Megan Heyl also added time sensitive material that is really none of her business i.e. View social follower numbers, contact emails, reviews and podcasts like Grave Matters. they will ban her. 42.5k. Sometimes someone doesn't live up to our expectations. just disappeared ? I don't know who took your daughter's photo (or anyone else in here). Find A Grave contributors are not responsible for the content of the memorials they create. I attempted to get Megan Heyl to turn these memorials back over to the family. E arlier this year, a distraught parent posted on Complaints Board, a third-party review site, that they'd made a horrifying discovery: their six-year-old daughter's headstone had been photographed and posted on Find A Grave without their knowledge. It's that simple. Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. things I will never get back now. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? Just so you know. Findagrave is gross and obscene. #HYPOCRITES, Desired outcome: Account question or Support Request Update to memorial Update cemetery Question for the cemetery Website Feedback Find a Grave 1300 West Traverse Parkway Lehi, UT 84043 But this past month has been a nightmare. Ancestry provides a myriad of beneficial services; Find A Grave is yet another website providing beneficial information. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Complaint Experience N/A Complaint Resolution Index (CRI) Membership Information Anyone else wants to make "corrections", like a bored housewife, YOU get to decline. Stop awarding points like trophies. If someone was cremated and the ashes given to someone, there is no cemetery. Mostly we are retired in any case. My nephew passed on new year's eve. You must include a valid cemetery ID or URL. Nuff said. For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. In fact, he has added pictures that he took from one of my memorials without any attribution and he cropped the picture to remove my uncle from the picture. My response is that there are too many members on Find A Grave who do NOT follow the rules. Legally and geneticly they are not related at all. I'd like to say that this website is in fact, not a blessing. It is essentially a long term lease from the cemetery. 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 . Search famous graves, newly added graves, most popular graves. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. . 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. You then control exactly what's on the memorial. The mechanics do not work like you were brainwashed to believe. Showing 1-1 | Showing Page 1 of 1. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. Historic Oakland Cemetery You've closed your mind to anything other . I understand why it is a blessing to some people, however it does in fact invade the privacy of many families. Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. . However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. Create a findagrave.com account and then click "suggest edits" and then there will be an option to request management of the memorial. My mother-in-law's site is totally inaccurate; says where she's buried. 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. i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. Find a Grave contains information for over 500,000 cemeteries in 244 different countries! FindAGrave also threatened me with legal action if I took it any further. They don't care if their site is riddled with viruses and unsuspecting computer catch it. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some Forever Missed's top package is something like $30.00 bucks. I returned home yesterday from out of town, having just attended his funeral. In many cases the correct markers can't be located or definitely identified, especially when they are old. This bored housewife manages OVER 8,600 memorials and ignores requests to transfer. REMOVE THE SUBJECT MEMORIAL: [protected], This person Brenda Beatty McGraw, working for Find a Grave constantly documents false vital statistics concerning my family tree. I did research about Marcel Loubens and emailed findagrave to ask they are ingrates, they dont allow anything negative to be said thats why i want this post to be known publis how they are prot putinist pro stalinist and WHY NEVER EVER TO SUPPORT FINDAGRAVE.COM IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM! Owner block you. For example, I have a cousin whose memorial was posted, no picture of the headstone, no information on all her pass husbands ( she was married 6 times, only one mentioned because it was on her obituary which was posted in an El Paso, Texas newspaper. The same thing has happened to me and my suggestion never went through. I would email the cemetery asking if they could please verify whether or not John Flint, birth date-death date, is indeed buried there. Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". 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. I was aghast when it popped up on my monitor. To a point, I don't blame him. what is findagrave, answer me. BS..Find A Grave is a hang out for graveyard ghouls. 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. Send that to the person clearly outlining your direct relationship. So contact ancestry.Com about this. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. You really don't need all the drama FindAGrave's hierarchy throws in your face. In many cases these ghouls comb local obits and reprint them on Find A Grave. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? "Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online," wrote the user. A. 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. The new "Complaints" page was created by the same person, Mr. Pritchard, who contributed the 13 complaints. The new marker really looked nice. I don't see the point in the complaint. Please check to see if your confederate ancestors token of respect hasn't been changed over to a hideous LOOKING PURPLE flower. God forbid you had a famous relative? "Find A Grave" thrives on harvesting cemetery data with no regard to family wishes. You can suggest additions or corrections and the manager can choose to use those to improve the memorial. This allows people to add tombstones they come across in their cemetery explorations . Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. This experience is similar. (they are in many places) Marriages and divorces? 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 ? This browser does not support getting your location. The day of publicly available data is here and increases daily. send in corrections! 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. Visit Website Email this Business (919) 862-3704 This business has 0 complaints File a Complaint Burial Assistance Delivery Service Monuments Caskets Overview Never Forgotten Memorials delivers. dead person family can still object if they dont want. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. 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). I tried to inform Find A Gave of the issue but to no avail. Non related people can steal your family (Dead family dead friends) photo/headstone, and put online in their name on creator list, when you ask them transfer to you, they said no and even claim to staff you harass they. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. I've got 10 memorials, TEN, and have been a member for 14 years on Find a Grave. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved.