Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. Learn how to play nice. especially those from earlier days. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. We had collected written history of his life and contributions to Montgomery county Md. Like FB you control what's on the page. Also F.A.G says they award points, so beef with them. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. Read full review of Find A Grave and 1 comment. findagrave can no longer secure any dead grave names. Kind regards. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. Ask for permission. Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. 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 I was born in 1978 but sorry for your daughter. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. Do you want your child forgotten? Please enter your email and password to sign in. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. Oftentimes, there is information about about other members of that persons family included. For the child - the original marker withered away with the passing of time. 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! Really? On the Obituary for Stacy Bradburn Billings [protected] the person has inserted a picture of a person Stacy Bradburn who is still alive. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. I'm going to contact them again and if it's not resolved I will have to see what legal action I can take, Find A Grave's top contributor cyber ghouls r banned from photographing tombstones. listed divorce dates, ex spouses names and material of a more private nature our family did not want to share with the world. If you follow the process, you can get the change made - but it isn't a speedy process. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. it's your choice to take unauthorized headstone and put on findagrave. if you not know the person, you take their headstone, put on findagrave. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. 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. 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". because if her friends/her classmates/classmates parents. (They want to email Ms. DiMarco to ask if shes related to MY grandparents). Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a The person who has invaded my family's privacy has created 55 thousand of these things. Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. Do not bring up respect when you yourself seem to have never even processed the topic. The "known disposition" is the key - you have to know the disposition BEFORE you add a memorial. so please everyone do not turn this beautiful website into a horror story. You really don't need all the drama FindAGrave's hierarchy throws in your face. Plan to go early in the day, in case it takes you a while to find the exact location. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? I live in central Va. and my father's plot is in Elliott City, there . No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. Voila! if you put your daughter photo online, anyone can also use it without letting you know How do messages work? Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? It is both hurtful and embarrassing to family members. By the time I got home 2 hours later my family was already loaded. 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. 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. The whole point of a grave stone is to publicly honor the person's life. I've corrected Ms. DiMarco's errors and removed info the family doesn't want to share. So I'm VERY CURIOUS. Are you going to say "facebook is public, not yours. Contact Us - Find A Grave Contact Us We'd love to hear from you. Most likely FindAGrave will also threaten u with law enforcement for stalking in addition to legal action. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. My nephew passed on new year's eve. 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. Assure them you'll go legal and watch then cave. I already had a memorial created soon after my nephews passing. After reading this post I know now who killed Vaudeville, Forest Lawn/LA (the cemetery of the stars) have a policy regarding photos. What they do believe in concerning an after life is an eternal plain that is tended by a mother and father God. My heart goes out to you. Sigh of relief. 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. . 04/17/2022 I do a few memorials for family and friends. If I was that person whose picture is there I would be very upset. They just would not listen. I agree with you Singatune, Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. Desired outcome: 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; and (iii) any person engaging in genealogy research, who has given reasonable notice to the owner of I, just like you, add individual memorials so that future generations can utilize the information as they may need or want. This is totally wrong. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. What I do know is this tracking down ancestor graves is HARD work. 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. yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. Well, Sharon Haywood, many of the volunteers here don't even hold an ounce of respect when they do this. Search Now. Within 5 kilometers of your location. Choose a topic below to begin. 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. Your second argument of unknown dispositions do not make sense, especially in the cases of my and Eddie Jones' Reviews. Within 5 miles of your location. I really do not care what other people think, or if it is public record. For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. you have no right to privacy. There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. For all legal purposes, it is not your loved one, it is a memorial for your loved one. No one asked you to meddle in family ties Unlike Western thought Mormons do not believe in a trinity and some deny Christ as the son of God. "Find A Grave" thrives on harvesting cemetery data with no regard to family wishes. View social follower numbers, contact emails, reviews and podcasts like Grave Matters. All because they are not respectful of families and not responsible for the content. Sad, because I do not want to return to the site now. 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. They are supposed to transfer but don't. This website uses future generations as an excuse to take photos of children, babies, adults, of all ages and post them online. A findagrave monitor is removing our confederate veterans tokens of respect and replacing them with hideous looking fake purple violets. 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. And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? There is a problem with your email/password. FuryH, 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. 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. 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. 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 ? ti's not "HARD WORK. " I want to add to my comment above that it is only a numbers game with a few individuals. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'. if NJ harass, report to findagrave. com. A trojan virus downloaded onto my computer when I was on Find A Grave and clicked on a family name within a memorial. 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. Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. 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. FindAGrave has more than 154 million memorials on its site and is a valuable research tool. Sometimes someone doesn't live up to our expectations. It's definitely not a contest. I need to confirm my email address with Find a Grave..I don't know why is a leget address..I was thinking maybe all a SCAM. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line True Crime. 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. The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world's largest free online collection of burial information. Reported Problem: Not accurate - Their data conflicts with my data. What is your experience with Find A Grave? BEWARE of this websites. 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! 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 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. Desired outcome: Find contact information for federal, state, and local government officials. Because you are not their ONLY relative and others requested or may want to see it. - 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. I am now being stalked by these administrators and they dont stop. 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. Youll find helpful information about your account here or you can use this form to send us questions about account issues. 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. It may seem shocking to someone unfamiliar with this whos just lost someone young, but please know nothing bad is intended. They play upon emotion. My Find a Grave ID is: [protected] To a point, I don't blame him. Hey James, 3. They don't care if their site is riddled with viruses and unsuspecting computer catch it. Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? 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. It is essentially a long term lease from the cemetery. They are horrible! I have helped many people find long lost ancestors from several generations back with many not knowing where their ancestors were buried. I dont like findagrave too. We welcome you to Grave Matters. This person stalks and harasses me by following my flowers i leave on thousands of memorials. 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. Prehistoric grave sites contain fragile, easily destroyed remains. I am also a member of Ancestry which owns FindaGrave, yet there has been no correction and no help. 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. Historical Society. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. 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. In many cases these ghouls comb local obits and reprint them on Find A Grave. I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. However if u r a 3rd party vendor.such.is the case with.FindAGrave photo taking strictly forbidden. this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. unlist the current cemetery. Contact Your Local BBB Your local Better Business Bureau can assist you with finding businesses and. You haven't done anything wrong. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Dear Sirs, I thank them for their time and move on. The person who stole them claims to be related although they arent and they have never met any of my family. 07:27 PM. Mormons view of religion is a little different than Western thought. Send that to the person clearly outlining your direct relationship. 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). I don't see the point in the complaint. I had been a member for several years. Your argument is that findagrave is an open, safe space for individuals who can create memorials of family members and friends. 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. If you don't have cemetery burial information they shouldn't be put up. 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) Find a Grave is an online community project. 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. Learn more about requesting management here. Find A Grave has many untrue information. Find and visit a loved one's final resting place anywhere, anytime. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" As for Obit's find a grave dose say not to add names of living family members but some people still add them. Please contact me within 14 business days, or you will be hearing from my attorney. However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. Read full review of Find A Grave and 2 comments. The new marker really looked nice. Not true. Truly pathetic. Chances are you will find the cemetery you are looking for. Stop awarding points like trophies. He died on 16 Nov 1620 aboard the Mayflower, a fact which you can easily validate with a Bing search. unless you really know that person Interesting. If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. FINDAGRAVE and ANCESTRY.COM are owned by the same people. I am fighting that fight right now - mt grandparents' pages that I have rights to (by F/A/G community guide lines) are held by a random woman that posted in her biography how annoyed she is by people requesting that she fix incorrect information. Running Deer takes his memorial [protected] down. This commonplace.Memorial Park themed cemeteries. The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. They play upon emotion. I took a picture of that visible headstone and attach it to the memorial I did not delete someone else work that is totally disrespectful. Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. This is wrong! 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 That Find a Grave be consistent. And Nothing was ever done. putting undead people photo on die site. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Find a Grave - Online Search. Click here to get notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. It should be "well I've got more than you do" what are you 5? and your account will be suspended. This should only be about putting up memorials and helping people find their loved ones, THAT'S IT. Just so you know. This complaint was posted by a verified customer. Ancestry has SO many complaints already, they don't want any more. This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. Removing pics at their request is Respect. Action, and change of name on Memorial or transfer to myself so I can put pertinent information on the Memorial. The pay version is a one time 30 bucks. Search above to list available cemeteries. Precious hard work needs to respect copyright, do u understand, sharon haywood I refuse to wait 2 weeks, which is what I've been told by "Findagrave". If you've done anything that was recorded, it's there. So I am very sorry for your loss, as I still have pot gotten over mine, fortunately for me, I now have a nine year old granddaughter from my son. This includes both general and info of a more private nature that most families do nor want published on the net. I am a private person in life and I want privacy when I die. 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. 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. A problem occurred. @, no one has to ask permission to photograph a headstone. There was a problem getting your location. 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. "Tom" Carpenter, age 84, passed from life to eternal life on Wednesday. This is an ethics issue here !