com. 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. You wrote: The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customers satisfaction. I cannot get back in F.A.G. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. A trojan virus downloaded onto my computer when I was on Find A Grave and clicked on a family name within a memorial. There is a contributor on here named Running Deer who has created a memorial for a nephew of mine. FindAGrave is pure grossess. Brought in dead to The Meath Hospital, Heytesbury Street, Dublin, having had a Coronary Occlusion & Paroxysmal Tachycardia, certified They are supposed to transfer but don't. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. With no regard for the family Megan Heyl also added time sensitive material that is really none of her business i.e. Ruby is right. However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. It is in fact not precious hard work, it is simply walking around and taking pictures of graves. I got a kick from this off their faq page: So contact ancestry.Com about this. 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). Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report That is, relatives asking that someone who lives locally go document a grave because they can't do so themselves. Consider it a blessing. 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 returned home yesterday from out of town, having just attended his funeral. There are two types of Memorials you can create..the basic similar to Find A Grave is free. "Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect dealing with this." I had been a member for several years. Memorial: Mary Payne ([protected]) Send that to the person clearly outlining your direct relationship. Truly pathetic. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. They stated I was 'harassing' them, despite me trying to calm the situation to get my account restored. This includes both general and info of a more private nature that most families do nor want published on the net. Dear Sirs, Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. Since my daughter's crime is unsolved I have reported this to the detectives on the case. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. I am a private person in life and I want privacy when I die. 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. First, if you already asked Wendy to transfer the memorial to you and she ignored you, I would recommend contacting support@findagrave.com (if you already didn't) and ask them to give the memorial to you. The fact alone that you are completely disregarding this mothers concerns shows how much you actually care. Click here to get notifications about new complaints of Find A Grave. Sometimes if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. Nasty sorry this happened to you it certainly shouldnt happened. Sigh of relief. 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. 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 you don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). I'm pretty sure I know whose behind this, I have figured it out. how many tomb photo taken is no longer a meaning anymore. Yes Virginia. Therefore, those records are not searchable. How do messages work? This website uses future generations as an excuse to take photos of children, babies, adults, of all ages and post them online. Findagrave does not help with suggested edits. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. waste of taxpayer money. Voila! Unfortunately anonymity is not one of "Find A Grave's" strong points. 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. It requires patience. it's your choice to take unauthorized headstone and put on findagrave. Thanks for your help! Find A Grave does not allow Photo Volunteers to charge money for volunteering. She's also violating her fiduciary role as a "Findagrave" volunteer. This monitor controls about 300,000 or more memorials and is on a power trip and politics. Im of southern heritage and I'm betting nearly 50 percent of Ancestry.Com's paying customers are too! Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. 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! And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. Search above to list available cemeteries. If you want to create a memorial for a loved one and be free of Find A Grave ghouls go to "Forever Missed." Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. I only post a headstone photo that I personally have taken and sometimes link a person to a spouse. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. Gin, if Find A Grave has taken over management of your memorials, your account has been shut down by Find A Grave. Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. 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). She can even risk to take grave photos unauthorized Historical Society. the important is all funeral and headstone photos must be authorized and legitimate and the owner let you use. My nephew passed on new year's eve. Bill Sky-Eagle. It's a wonderful starting point for research, though I'd never, ever take anything I found on the site as credible in itself. He then served for four and a half. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. It's definitely not a contest. Findagrave is gross and obscene. Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. And almost as many gravestone photos. I'm an amateur genealogist and I've heard of the unsavory practices of Find A Grave members, so I Another member of Find a Grave is holding my grandfather's memorial page hostage. Find A Grave is open to anyone creating a memorial for a deceased person with a known disposition. 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. They are getting fresh air and exercise. Sad life when people have nothing better to do with their time. Find a Grave is connected to Ancestry. My condolences to you and your family. Unless you really know that person, u can directly share or steal. So, it's a crap shoot, but some do turn them over. Find A Grave should monitor this kind of behavior, and if those people refuse to follow the rules, then they should be banned. Find and visit a loved one's final resting place anywhere, anytime. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? For consumers, it can happen through online feedback forms or customer service countersbut consumer complaints are a separate matter. A. 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. When confronted they claim they r performing.a service if families want it or not. True Crime. Do you want your child forgotten? Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a Good luck! This comment was posted by a verified customer. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. I also discussed talking to attorney to see if I could get some type of restraining order to prohibit my grave site from appearing on ###. For immediate removal: Please remove Memorial #[protected]. 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. See Wikipedia for more.. Find A Grave; Genealogy data can be searched for by entering the name of a person to find where that person is buried. If you look closely at Find A Grave you will notice that all of the memorial information is on the right-hand side of the page and there is a space on the left-hand side of the page that contains these huge banner ads. Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. 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. Please check to see if your confederate ancestors token of respect hasn't been changed over to a hideous LOOKING PURPLE flower. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. Sherry Maccanico, Desired outcome: You put it there to honor them and share your love for them in a public place for anyone who is in the cemetery to see, behold and treasure for generations to come. When posting pictures it is proper to cite the owner of the photograph. 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. the site should really remove that photo especially if your 6-yr daugther had not died. How ridiculous! Findagrave does not relinquish hold on a memorial when their representative is not reachable to contact. information was given on three people is on people that are still alive ; so cause of death listed incorrectly, since people are still alive, not d e a d! [1] ----- 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 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. They do nothing about it. Find a Grave states that this is against their guidelines. if you harass the creatoer or the grave page owner, they will report you harass them and they will ban your profile in findagrave. I probably could get it back if I bought Megan Heyl a cart load of cheezos. Once redeemed these souls may enter heaven and start having children. if you not know the person, you take their headstone, put on findagrave. 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. This will give you a space to inform the manager of the memorial about the use of the wrong photo. Please contact me within 14 business days, or you will be hearing from my attorney. Then someone sends a correction I will ask if they are family. Don't buy into it. Megan Heyl to give my son back. It was not put here for it to be a tug of war or a battleground everyone must follow the rules and regulations It should be "well I've got more than you do" what are you 5? Was unaware of postings for my 8 year old daughter and recently deceased mother-in-law. If you not wish photo being shared, dont put" Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. FindAGrave has more than 154 million memorials on its site and is a valuable research tool. There are ads on most pages from which they make revenue, and they charge family members to remove the ads from their loved one's profile. Being bitter and calling people names because you are upset is wrong. Once the memorial is completed Findagrave turns the memorial over to one of their major contributors who thus adds personal information about the deceased and their families they have swiped from the net. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. Ancestry manages Find a Grave. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. You then control exactly what's on the memorial. Most likely FindAGrave will also threaten u with law enforcement for stalking in addition to legal action. Spare me. The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? findagrave can no longer secure any dead grave names. So what does that tell you about this person with over 1, 000, 000 memorials added? + Locate grave sites of your loved ones through . The information is public, online or not. Man it's their photo not your photo. To find cemetery records for New York in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps: Go to the FamilySearch Catalog Enter: New York in the Place box Click on: Search Click on: Cemeteries To search for cemeteries at the county level follow directions below Go to the FamilySearch Catalog Enter: New York in the Place box Click on: Search Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. If you can't find someone on the site, it's probably just . If so, why get a headstone in the first place, just use a rock so you can find her. If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. Find A Grave deceptive, rip off, scam Salt Lake City, UT. Contact Us - Find A Grave Contact Us We'd love to hear from you. Then have one of their major contributers take over ur memorial. Assure them you'll go legal and watch then cave. The prosecutor says that I can file a civil complaint about this infringement against the guy who took and posted the picture. 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) Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. 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. A guy named NEMIS is mad at me because he owned a memorial by the name of "Marcel Loubens" which is supposed to be listed as a famous memorial. Kind regards. I got threatened with police action because the evil administrators refused to give my account back after it was removed. That sucks. 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. TeeJLee, What process? If a family member has asked you to remove a memorial, than you do it. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. Author: Kalamazoo, Michigan. What I do know is this tracking down ancestor graves is HARD work. I feel this infringes on my privacy, copyright laws and personal property of mine being placed on the internet for advertising purposes. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. I do not care how many countless hours "Find A Grave's cyber ghouls put into it. I would say that many members provide relevant information and are not "collectors" of graves and the service they provide in invaluable. He died on 16 Nov 1620 aboard the Mayflower, a fact which you can easily validate with a Bing search. especially those from earlier days. Complaint Experience N/A Complaint Resolution Index (CRI) Membership Information Find A Grave is not owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. If so, we already had this talk. Legally and geneticly they are not related at all. . cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. It was founded in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident, Jim Tipton. There was a problem getting your location. By scanning the Internet, you can find and save more than 180 million graves worldwide. When someone has refused to transfer a grave site, I have gone on and duplicated it with an explanation. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but yes I have been there, and what your feeling now, will not be shared by other relatives 50 years from now as they look at your daughters memorial. they suspended you like how they suspended me right today. But unlike FindAGrave you are in control and its you who decide on what data is included in the memorial. He was the Captain of the brig Resistance during the Revolution and was killed in action at sea north of Barbados. I want to RIP. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. Sharon, if I may say, you are ridiculous. This is not precious. 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. That Find a Grave be consistent. Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. No. They're making a tidy bundle off of your work. Showing 1-1 | Showing Page 1 of 1. Ask for permission. This is an ethics issue here ! I only record what is mentioned on the stone. I attempted to get Megan Heyl to turn these memorials back over to the family. 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. Most of us do it to honor your family member and to ensure in 100 years, their descents have a way to feel more connected. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. Can I charge money as a Photo Volunteer? It's actually not "funny" (your word) that other people are skirting the Find A Grave rules while you attempted to do so as well. Caleb, Mikenna, Amber are sending me emails asking to send them names and numbers of all my dead family and my parents and siblings names, I think they are doing this to find info on them and steal them from me. They are about a month behind in their email correspondence. 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). This person has harassed me even on created memorials I worked hard on. She manages OVER 8,600 memorials and made a ton of mistakes on my parents memorials. And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. Desired outcome: Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. This is not hard work. 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). Totally agree. The family moved to the Mohawk Community in Greene County when Tom was three years old because the Norris Dam took their farm. Interesting. Thank you in advance for your help in resolving this stalemate. 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. Find a Grave - Online Search. How may I get my issues addressed? It's totally against what their mission is. 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. 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. Reported Problem: Not accurate - Their data conflicts with my data. People who hate memorials listed as "burial details unknown", Aggressive elderly man is mad at me because I made his memorial famous, Find A Grave - protects stalkers and harassments, Find A Grave - Unfair and bad membership service, Find A Grave - Added to website before a family knew a death had happened. Yes, I know what they are supposed to do.. I want to add to my comment above that it is only a numbers game with a few individuals. Mormons view of religion is a little different than Western thought. 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. Even when you use facebook other person photo, u must also ask owner permission. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. I am not going to get into a long heated debate with anyone on here so let me get that out of the way first. NO I DID NOT! State, Local, and Tribal Governments Find contact information for state, local, and tribal governments. I find a lot of family history in find a grave. No, that's not what it means. I wanted to create a memorial for my grandfather and grandmother on Find A Grave. A findagrave monitor is removing our confederate veterans tokens of respect and replacing them with hideous looking fake purple violets. Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'. Stop awarding points like trophies. There have been 250K claims filed against the government. If you find a memorial for someone you are related to within four generations and would like to manage that memorial, you can request to have that memorial transferred to you. 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. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? However, I owe much to volunteers on the site who have posted information that I would never have been able to obtain without a major roadtrip with a quick visit to the website. You don't not belong on complaintsboard. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line I have contacted Find A Grave and even submitted a copy of my birth certificate and they have done nothing. I don't see the point in the complaint. Finally, ### is neither all bad or all good, but some issues need to be addressed in civilized matter and in fairness to all users. IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? 07:27 PM. If you don't have cemetery burial information they shouldn't be put up. So any suggestions? They steal my records, my photos and basically my deceased family. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. Find or Report a Scam using BBB Scam Tracker. The new marker really looked nice. My complaint was with those who rush to submit the memorial as soon as they can-whether they have any connection to the person, the cemetery, or the general area. When I started genealogy research 2 years ago I was grateful to find information on loved ones. I am the last of my family and I even submitted a copy of my birth certificate showing relation. I don't see the anguish. They were being my managed by Patsy Lubben DiMarco who IGNORES transfer requests. 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. Explore All Topics and Services on USA.gov Top If you know the cemetery where someone is buried but you're not sure exactly which plot is theirs, take a trip to the graveyard. Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. Precious hard work needs to respect copyright, do u understand, sharon haywood who never knew her. if you put your daughter photo online, anyone can also use it without letting you know It's not on the tombstone and it was a nickname given to him by coworker where he worked for 4 years from [protected]. A kind, generous, and gentle man, he was born on August 18, 1933 in Claiborne County. I arrived on this page because I just had a conversation with my husband that when I pass away not to have an obituary published in newspaper and to only have a headstone with my name, no date of birth or death. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. Please enter your email and password to sign in. 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. What the hell is wrong with people. My response is that there are too many members on Find A Grave who do NOT follow the rules. My one complaint with Findagrave is that they apparently allow people to put up memorials when they have no idea where or if the person was buried. 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. 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. And sharon shout out loud "this is my precious hard work" This is totally wrong. Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. The person who took my great grandfathers memorial has captured over 50,000 souls and she cannot do a simple favor! I have been a member of find a grave since it first started. Put a new memorial or photo on an existing one, and use the memorial's location and photo to make it more visible. I am 13 years old and I understand this more than the adults doing this out of "the kindness of their hearts."
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