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). John Charles Chandler (1835-1911) - Find a Grave Memorial Nuff said. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. I think it's very selfish to want to keep them to yourself. Find A Grave is also owed by Mormons who get browie points 4 baptising the dead into their faith. Truly pathetic. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? see that photo on findagrave site. I've been sent many messages of great thanks for doing so, including from many adoptees. TeeJLee, From my and others' experience, findagrave sends messages via every email. Use this form for website feedback and suggestions to improve how the website works. John married Eliza (or Elizabeth) Moody at St Ann, Belfast, Northern Ireland on Christmas Eve 1864. Meanwhile, I'm calling findagrave now. nobody would really be happy with findagrave anymore.! 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. The new marker really looked nice. NO I DID NOT! God bless you all ! Learn how to play nice. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. I have been in a cemetery when a church group of about 30 swooped in and started downloading headstones. As for it being private, we all are public knowledge now and after we die. Ruby is right. Mormons believe u enter the after life based on "works" namely procreation, In life Mormons collect huge volumes of data. dead person family can still object if they dont want. After reading this post I know now who killed Vaudeville, Forest Lawn/LA (the cemetery of the stars) have a policy regarding photos. So, it's a crap shoot, but some do turn them over. 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. I feel sorry for you, and I can understand about feeling like you have been exploited.At the same time though if It had not been for find a grave .com. For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. This bored housewife manages OVER 8,600 memorials and ignores requests to transfer. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. I dont like findagrave too. I don't see the anguish. Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. Find A Grave Review - Genealogy Explained the important is all funeral and headstone photos must be authorized and legitimate and the owner let you use. I even put in for a forgot password thinking I had it wrong and I don't even get a email to reset it. theft is wrong. I have been a member of FindaGrave for many years. 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 feel this infringes on my privacy, copyright laws and personal property of mine being placed on the internet for advertising purposes. Search 502,691 cemeteries in 243 different countries. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. This is very basic courtesy. They are horrible! It is a place to record cemeteries. Being bitter and calling people names because you are upset is wrong. When someone creates a memorial, that means they were either related to this person or a close personal friend. and your account will be suspended. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. The day of publicly available data is here and increases daily. This is the result of 698 total reviews. The family moved to the Mohawk Community in Greene County when Tom was three years old because the Norris Dam took their farm. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. This allows people to add tombstones they come across in their cemetery explorations . View social follower numbers, contact emails, reviews and podcasts like Grave Matters. They are more interested in grabbing a tombstone in hopes of getting brownie points. Every one listen, this website is a blessing to everyone that's on it, it was put here to view memorials and find peace. Are you upset with public death certificates published online? 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". U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. I understand why it is a blessing to some people, however it does in fact invade the privacy of many families. People add information about cemeteries to the site to help identify the final disposition information of people buried there. If you are hoping to find the grave of a specific relative, then you will need to have some vital record information: Full name (first, middle, last) Date of birth Date of death Location of death You can find full names and birthdates on family bibles or baptismal and census records. I am amazed at people who have done 20, 000+ headstones, don't they have a life. if realy so (if so). Desired outcome: Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. 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. Although, I bet you could associate ANY activity as a contest - you seem to have a GIANT chip on your shoulder about this. 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? I don't see the point in the complaint. I attempted to get Megan Heyl to turn these memorials back over to the family. Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! Added almost 3000 memorials. Find a Grave has the right to delete any User, for any reason. 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. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. I personally manage a few sites that are people related to me through marriage, and several relatives more than one generation removed from me. They are by states of where the person was buried. Findagrave does not relinquish hold on a memorial when their representative is not reachable to contact. We can resolve this issue. I have had Bios i wrote stolen and posted elsewhere with no mention of me writing those. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. 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. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. Top 7 Best Cemetery Apps for Locating Ancestors - Family Tree Magazine Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. Not true! 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. The.rational .they.r.private cemeteries and have Not just steal. This account has been disabled. However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. It was founded in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident, Jim Tipton. God forbid you had a famous relative? And sharon shout out loud "this is my precious hard work" So what does that tell you about this person with over 1, 000, 000 memorials added? Anne Maher McKay When burial details are unknown, Ancestry has a "global" index for this. Removing pics at their request is Respect. Which legally or DNA wise is not a relation. They are doing this to my family because I reported SMS to FamilySearch for messing with my family AFTER I had asked how he was related and tried 70 times to ask he/she to stop. How to Find a Person's Grave - dummies The rationale: They do not want a resting place for the dead to be devourered by FindAGrave's cyber knowitall undertakers. For the record I am 75 years old and thinks it pretty [censored]ty of FindAGrave to respond in such a way. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. For more information about the cemetery or burials within it or buying a plot, you should contact the cemetery directly. Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. because findagrave should NOT allow people take unauthorized headstone and claim "DEAD PEOPLE PRIVACY IS GONE". Interesting. based on information from your browser. I really do not care what other people think, or if it is public record. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. He was the Captain of the brig Resistance during the Revolution and was killed in action at sea north of Barbados. the email is from his daughter (she claim it's his daughter) but sounds like it's pretending his daughter. Several plans available. Failure of Wendy Ebenstein Norman to transfer my grandfather's Memorial Page to me, after numerous requests. 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). 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 Therefore, those records are not searchable. Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world's largest free online collection of burial information. Forever Missed's top package is something like $30.00 bucks. They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. Open to both member questions and member answers. It's only a website. I don't know who she is. Contacted manager of my daughter's "site" who has refused to remove information I object to from daughter's bio or agree to transfer the memorial to me. This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. Other details can be found and verified on one of the family history websites - some of which are free. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. Memorial: Mary Payne ([protected]) Too bad someone doesn't start a class action lawsuit against "Find A Grave." Furthermore, nobody actually "owns" a grave. 1, Report #1386798. Then you are suspended. 2. Create a findagrave.com account and then click "suggest edits" and then there will be an option to request management of the memorial. However there is not a lot that can be done about it. Find a Grave on the App Store com. Many private cemeteries have banned FindAGravd's top contributor cyber ghouls from taking photos of tombstones. For consumers, it can happen through online feedback forms or customer service countersbut consumer complaints are a separate matter. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. or else. Send Find a Grave a PM on FB and let them know you want memorials transferred. She said "you can not ruin people precious hard work" which makes me underlook her. I want to RIP. They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. My Find a Grave ID is: [protected] I tried to inform Find A Gave of the issue but to no avail. [1] Find A Grave | FamilyTree.com 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." It's not on the tombstone and it was a nickname given to him by coworker where he worked for 4 years from [protected]. Submit a complaint and get your issue resolved. I know this person and his family . You might be surprised to know that many people find the image of their ancestor's headstone more real than a photo of them taken when they were alive. I would email the cemetery asking if they could please verify whether or not John Flint, birth date-death date, is indeed buried there. who never knew her. The site would consist solely of faked pictures. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a I lost my daughter in 1978. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line My problem is with the company who does not do a better job of arbitrating with people who want to hoard other people's relatives. When I confronted this whale of a whale to relinquished ownership and return the memorial back to me I was banned. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. Do not bring up respect when you yourself seem to have never even processed the topic. Do u know. Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. What can we help you with? - Find a Grave Find A Grave | FindAGrave.com Review I am the last of my family and I even submitted a copy of my birth certificate showing relation. God Speed. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Sad, because I do not want to return to the site now. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. It should be "well I've got more than you do" what are you 5? Desired outcome: They play upon emotion. It is essentially a long term lease from the cemetery. When I add names, etc. I was wondering if they shut down. Bill Sky-Eagle. Click here to get notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. Grave Solutions ratings, reviews and complaints - Funeral Services Next disgusting is a point of view. Sigh of relief. 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 ? Many people enjoy walking through cemeteries and taking pictures. 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. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Legally and geneticly they are not related at all. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. They just would not listen. Nothing has changed and no one has contacted me regarding the matter. 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. Find A Grave - Access to findagrave and a complaint about a comment left on a findagrave page. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. Search consumer complaints, reviews and information about find-a-grave. Did you include a link to your profile or your member number? Running Deer takes his memorial [protected] down. This appears to be especially true for African American individuals and other individuals deemed to be not important enough, I am guessing. So then what, do you expect to get paid anyway? I don't see the point in the complaint.