I don't see the point in the complaint. He must of went through the grave yard and saw this grave with my nephews middle name and last name on his temporary marker. There was a problem getting your location. i tried to explain the situation but they stopped replying. family names are listed incorrectly, incorrect spellings of names, incorrect places of birth, incorrect pictures of where bodies are buried and, incorrect lineage noted. This appears to be especially true for African American individuals and other individuals deemed to be not important enough, I am guessing. 3. Further harassing a Find A Grave employee on a different website (this one) only proves that there is a serious problem with your unreasonable, childish behavior. By the time I got home 2 hours later my family was already loaded. Find a Grave contains information for over 500,000 cemeteries in 244 different countries! dead people have no privacy (when people die privacy is gone) it's not right. Not just steal. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. There have been 250K claims filed against the government. He then served for four and a half. Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? and your account will be suspended. I have been in a cemetery when a church group of about 30 swooped in and started downloading headstones. Nuff said. Not even the ones I paid to sponsor! When I checked, I fond that somebody already did and the info is all wrong as well. U can also change photos and music any time u wantno restrictions. Create a findagrave.com account and then click "suggest edits" and then there will be an option to request management of the memorial. That's life. unlist the current cemetery. the site should really remove that photo especially if your 6-yr daugther had not died. We are all individuals of different expectations of this site. Also F.A.G says they award points, so beef with them. I only record what is mentioned on the stone. 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. Finally, ### is neither all bad or all good, but some issues need to be addressed in civilized matter and in fairness to all users. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. You can always change this later in your Account settings. I live in central Va. and my father's plot is in Elliott City, there . ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. This includes both general and info of a more private nature that most families do nor want published on the net. Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. Historic Oakland Cemetery 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. Be aware, many of these idiots will NOT give you management and when you contact findagrave.com they don't care. Was unaware of postings for my 8 year old daughter and recently deceased mother-in-law. that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. They steal my records, my photos and basically my deceased family. Take William Butten's find-a-grave memorial. Megan Heyl to give my son back. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. To use this feature, use a newer browser. TeeJLee, What process? Good luck ! Ancestry manages Find a Grave. FINDAGRAVE and ANCESTRY.COM are owned by the same people. FuryH, Find A Grave is also owed by Mormons who get browie points 4 baptising the dead into their faith. Use this form for website feedback and suggestions to improve how the website works. I assume this means that they can't transfer the memorial to family members, because you didn't mention that (Which was pretty much, the whole point of the complaint). A findagrave monitor is removing our confederate veterans tokens of respect and replacing them with hideous looking fake purple violets. As for Obit's find a grave dose say not to add names of living family members but some people still add them. No one asked you to meddle in family ties I don't love how Find A Grave is run and it irks me that much of the information on the site is really terribly inaccurate, but presented in a manner that makes many people take it as fact, and impossible to correct or contribute to with the territorial attitude that the managing of memorials seems to foster. I have contacted the prosecutor and state police. Nothing is sacred here. So contact ancestry.Com about this. However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. I am having trouble, I manage several of my family graves and I am not able to log in and no one is returning my emails, I haven't been able to find a phone number. There are many kind and helpful people on F/A/G. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. Back then it was a site consisting of records of celebrities and their burial sites. Find A Grave is eventually going to be sued and it will undoubtedly take down the site and their business. 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. And, if so, where. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. She said "you can not ruin people precious hard work" which makes me underlook her. For those who have the fee-subscription database of Ancestry.com, they have the Find A Grave indexed when you are searching for an ancestor. I know this person and his family . waste of taxpayer money. 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. the important is all funeral and headstone photos must be authorized and legitimate and the owner let you use. I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. FindAGrave is pure grossess. This commonplace.Memorial Park themed cemeteries. Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: Forms, by Agency Find a U.S. federal government form by choosing the agency that publishes it. She means, if she goes around grave, to glorify herself and her findagrave records. 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 am sure you can find another forum for that discussion. I'd like to say that this website is in fact, not a blessing. Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. Every one listen, this website is a blessing to everyone that's on it, it was put here to view memorials and find peace. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. FindAGrave Administrators- Caleb, Mikenna, and Amber. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. Imagine if people were making money from posting these photos. FindAGrave is 4 bored people who gave up all their vices have nothing better to do than being cyber undertakers and stick their nose I'm everyone's business. Desired outcome: 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. Then you are suspended. Failure of Wendy Ebenstein Norman to transfer my grandfather's Memorial Page to me, after numerous requests. 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. And almost as many gravestone photos. compete on how many records make is useless. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. see that photo on findagrave site. The dead could care less what u do. Many Find A Grave ghouls r also members of ancestry . 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. All that info is gone now! My name is Bill Sky-Eagle. Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? This complaint was posted by a verified customer. The answer is NO and she's not going to respond to emails. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. Some families just want 2 be left alone without rehashing family ties. When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. Do u know. I don't know who took your daughter's photo (or anyone else in here). Not you wish to steal you go steal, then claim that photo is own by yourself. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. I have been a member of find a grave since it first started. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. I only post a headstone photo that I personally have taken and sometimes link a person to a spouse. 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. 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 . if realy so (if so). Find A Grave is a database of known final dispositions. This is very basic courtesy. Quickly search more than 180 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. I already had a memorial created soon after my nephews passing. they think that, if your photo is put there, you will die fast. If you can't find someone on the site, it's probably just . Personal Services: Find A Grave. Concerns Anne McKay buried in Templeogue cemetery,Dublin,Ireland- date of death 13 February 1962. if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. Good luck! now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. They are allowing another Administrator SMS to steal and/ or remove original profiles to make it their own. I can see that people have different points of few, but some posts here have been rather tackless, almost cruel and cruel. Desired outcome: 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. 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. 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. 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. Some important ways to determine whether a cemetery exists on a particular tract of land include: (1) checking old deeds and property records; (2) checking old maps; (3) talking with long-time local residents; (4) searching for sunken areas on the property that seem to be oriented east to west; (5) looking for Vinca minor (cemetery ivy) and (6) I told her I would not give her the death notice or pictures, she harassed me and it was done anyway without our knowledge. These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. who never knew her. 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. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. I have been a member of FindaGrave for many years. Ms. DiMarco is a complete stranger who has NO familial ties to these memorials. if you not know the person, you take their headstone, put on findagrave. The site would consist solely of faked pictures. If you follow the process, you can get the change made - but it isn't a speedy process. I attempted to get Megan Heyl to turn these memorials back over to the family. If you don't have cemetery burial information they shouldn't be put up. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. Voila! I could not have been able to see my fathers grave plot at all. You then control exactly what's on the memorial. Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'. However she has not had a burial service, I'm looking at her urn right now and her obituary stated "private internment held at a later date". I have contacted them and they refuse to remove it. While the gravesite or plot is purchased and owned by the person who will be buried there, or by a family member as needed when someone passes, it cannot be sold (thus it is not property owned). There should be no emotional attachment on the part of a picture taker. 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." A. I have sent this person several messages and no response there will be action taken against her too. better not put personal photos online(esp girl naked photos). 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. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. Next disgusting is a point of view. There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. 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. FindAGrave was meant to help people find where someone's last resting place was. if the person died, findagrave must let the person stay in their site, even if they had not have tombstone/headstone. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. now findagrave deletes burial records and members now. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. You wrote: Desired outcome: The prosecutor says that I can file a civil complaint about this infringement against the guy who took and posted the picture. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. The person who took my great grandfathers memorial has captured over 50,000 souls and she cannot do a simple favor! Unlike Western thought Mormons do not believe in a trinity and some deny Christ as the son of God. 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. ----- I can't tell you how many old cemeteries I've documented that were in such total disrepair and vandalism that you couldn't read the stones even after you put them back together. 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 haven't had any problems with anyone or them, so don't have a clue what is going on. 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. Find A Grave is one of the free resources online that you can tap into to get the clues that you are after. Thank you in advance for your help in resolving this stalemate. People add information about cemeteries to the site to help identify the final disposition information of people buried there. Contact Your Local BBB Your local Better Business Bureau can assist you with finding businesses and. the dead person family (headstone person family or friend) can report to findagrave that you are unauthorized then your burial record on that person will be deleted immediately. Many memorials are created with information about survivors. IF IT BOTHERS YOU, GO FIND THE BURIAL YOURSELF IF YOU THINK IT"S EASY. Solution: Make a new account, follow the rules, and be nice. 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. It is purely disgusting what they do, I understand the bit of finding relatives and such, however adding details like that is just revolting. There's an etiquette to these things, whether anyone follows it or not. I understand you way too well, and I am so sorry that they lack enough common sense to put that sort of private information up online. Many contain personal info that many families wish 2 keep private. And yes, they are a husband-wife . 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. U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. Or at least you were, as I'm replying to this years after your post. theft is wrong. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. If you don't like it, just log off. Oftentimes, there is information about about other members of that persons family included. My heart goes out to you. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some who never knew her. 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. their family and freinds HAD EVERY RIGHTS TO ASK FINDAGRAVE REMOVE THAT RECORD. We have set your language to This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. 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. Like FB you control what's on the page. 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. 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. . Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report All because they are not respectful of families and not responsible for the content. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! FindAGrave is LSD an extension of the Mormon Church. I was wondering if they shut down. if you harass someone they will report to Findagrave staff and your account will be ban, Ladybug is just one of those rude f## people. Kristy is an internationally known Psychic Medium and Psychic Detective. Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. I am a contributor with over 800 memorials added, mostly from the 1800's. They are horrible! 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. She flatly refuses to give it up. As someone who does genealogy work I find Find a Grave invaluable. Wow! Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. 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. I have complained to Find A Grave several times about misinformation on my family site (father, grandfather, grandmother and great grandparents) and use of their head stones without my permission. Previously, I had a friend write me my other experience on 'people who hate memorials listed as burial details unknown'. They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. Also sending me arrogant emails in response to my disapproval. 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. 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! I feel this infringes on my privacy, copyright laws and personal property of mine being placed on the internet for advertising purposes. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. I hope in the near future that there will be a legal challenge to ### as to whether they have a property right to post gravesites without permission for those who have passed away "after" a set period of time, similar to release of census records. 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). Anyone walking a cemetery can find DOB. The fact alone that you are completely disregarding this mothers concerns shows how much you actually care. Anne Maher McKay For consumers, it can happen through online feedback forms or customer service countersbut consumer complaints are a separate matter. You're not alone in your complaint. FindAGrave also threatened me with legal action if I took it any further. Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. you regretted your parents and teachers who teach you every knowledge. Why would anyone think it's OK to post biographical information like this about an 8 year old? Ask for permission. They are by states of where the person was buried. 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. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world. I have helped many people find long lost ancestors from several generations back with many not knowing where their ancestors were buried. It is very obvious that he is upset with Find-A-Grave. My advice.. or "PRECIOUS HARD WORK" 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. There are two types of Memorials you can create..the basic similar to Find A Grave is free. If you have specific examples, please forward those in the email to us. I use it to the best of my ability to help others. I think it's very selfish to want to keep them to yourself. Just so you know. I understand why it is a blessing to some people, however it does in fact invade the privacy of many families. Find A Grave - Has no check against rampant fraud. Search 502,691 cemeteries in 243 different countries. Information provided is not true. are you saying that STEALING PEOPLE HEADSTONE WITHOUT AUTHORIZE IS CALLED PRECIOUS HARD WORK They are about a month behind in their email correspondence. Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. Spare me. If a family member has asked you to remove a memorial, than you do it. 2. My Find a Grave ID is: [protected] Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. How may I get my issues addressed? My response is that there are too many members on Find A Grave who do NOT follow the rules. Not true! We promise not to send you any unrelated messages, Click here if youd like to unsubscribe from notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. If you have information that would help us update details about a cemetery on the site, please let us know. So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. 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