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. I have contacted Find A Grave and even submitted a copy of my birth certificate and they have done nothing. Findagrave is a profitable business. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? Find A Grave does not allow Photo Volunteers to charge money for volunteering. Some person going by Ladybug (member #[protected]) {note doesn't even use a REAL name, address, email, etc.} 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. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. Mostly we are retired in any case. I can spend DAYS combing a cemetery with over 15, ooo headstones to find just one. No, that's not what it means. people would mistaken that she had died. 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 - Access to findagrave and a complaint about a comment left on a findagrave page. Many of these memorials contain more than headstones. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. This is very basic courtesy. Well for all the money findagrave is apparently making if they want my help fulfilling the hundreds of requests in my local graveyard then they'e going to have to pull some money out of that old sock and put up. Being bitter and calling people names because you are upset is wrong. I have a good clue who is doing this to our flowers we leave on confederate veterans memorials. I had to threaten legal action to get my mothers and fathers memorials transferred to me. Use it to search for burial information and gravestone images among the 160 million online memorials volunteers have logged at Find A Grave. They steal my records, my photos and basically my deceased family. This includes both general and info of a more private nature that most families do nor want published on the net. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. All the information I had compiled on John Hanson Gassaway2 . It is both hurtful and embarrassing to family members. Showing 1-1 | Showing Page 1 of 1. In my case I created a memoral 4 my Grandmother and also a memorial for a favoured child who died in infancy. This politically correct world is becoming ridicules when we can't even tell historical facts about people .One of my relatives committed suicide because his wife left him do to he drank to much . He hated the nickname and when my father and mother divorced in 1969; he moved back to his home town in NC and was never even called anything been a member since 2016 and i dont log in often, and i just discovered that someone made a memorial for my great grandfather john flint #[protected]. Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. If I was that person whose picture is there I would be very upset. Not everyone who provides this service (and yes it is a service maybe not to you NOW but to future generations who will be very happy someone like me gifted my time and love for family history to make sure their ancestor could be found.. definitely). Desired outcome: Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. Seriously? 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 Spare me. It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. Search the BBB Directory | Better Business Bureau. Start with Trust Legally and geneticly they are not related at all. Findagrave sucks. My nephew passed on new year's eve. i tried to explain the situation but they stopped replying. I am a contributor with over 800 memorials added, mostly from the 1800's. ^^^^^Seems to me that they are taking advantage of the people doing the photography. The fact alone that you are completely disregarding this mothers concerns shows how much you actually care. yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. There is a process to get memorials transferred. Find A Grave | FindAGrave.com Review 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". Locating Unmarked Graves - Texas Historical Commission internet is free to use. THAT's THE REAL DISHONOR. Celine McKay I am sorry that your loved one has passed. Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect in dealing with this. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. 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. For the child - the original marker withered away with the passing of time. If u r family or tourists u can take photos. 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. If someone was cremated and the ashes given to someone, there is no cemetery. Kind regards, listed divorce dates, ex spouses names and material of a more private nature our family did not want to share with the world. Ask the Community "How do I?" questions about the Find a Grave website. Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. Then you are suspended. I am not dead, yet! Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. @, no one has to ask permission to photograph a headstone. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Hun, Your daughter's grave and headstone are in a PUBLIC PLACEpeople use find a grave for RESEARCH reasons, and to SAVE these names for posteritythey do it because THEY CARE..not for any money or fame . Desired outcome: Why do you care so much? 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 ? I didnt even get an email from Find A Grave to warn me. That's a lot of money. And Nothing was ever done. and your account will be suspended. Read full review of Find A Grave and 1 comment. But this past month has been a nightmare. But when I find it, post it and notify the requestor that are overjoyed. Her brother, Peter Maher, of 14 Shanowen Road, registered her death. I even put in for a forgot password thinking I had it wrong and I don't even get a email to reset it. Then they boot you out or ban u. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. Top 7 Best Cemetery Apps for Locating Ancestors - Family Tree Magazine They are getting fresh air and exercise. Many f## people are very unfriednly, when ladybug reported you, findagrave banned you so you can NOT see anything. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. When I confronted this whale of a whale to relinquished ownership and return the memorial back to me I was banned. Please try again later. I cannot get back in F.A.G. My comment is not directed at those who do it for their own genealogy or add friends. Kristy is an internationally known Psychic Medium and Psychic Detective. This browser does not support getting your location. Manager bases their reasoning for not correcting this on a cemetery advertisement that was below my loved one's obituary and responded that "you don't know what you're talking about." It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. Several plans available. But unlike FindAGrave you are in control and its you who decide on what data is included in the memorial. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. Anyone else wants to make "corrections", like a bored housewife, YOU get to decline. based on information from your browser. Assure them you'll go legal and watch then cave. Method 1 Searching Individual Headstones 1 Visit the cemetery if you know where it is. Explore All Topics and Services on USA.gov Top that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. In many cases these ghouls comb local obits and reprint them on Find A Grave. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. She means, if she goes around grave, to glorify herself and her findagrave records. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. Don't buy into it. 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. I use it to the best of my ability to help others. So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. they suspended you like how they suspended me right today. I've done a small number of photo requests from the site at a local cemetery. Some of us are private people and just want to be left alone. Find A Grave | FindAGrave.com User Reviews I am amazed at people who have done 20, 000+ headstones, don't they have a life. 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. Within 5 kilometers of your location. Grave Matters Chuck and Kristy Robinett. Findagrave is gross and obscene. Some people do not want their family members in the site, and its not your God-given right as a volunteer to ignore that. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. Desired outcome: 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 ###. Please contact me within 14 business days, or you will be hearing from my attorney. Running Deer takes his memorial [protected] down. This is not precious. They do nothing about it. A trojan virus downloaded onto my computer when I was on Find A Grave and clicked on a family name within a memorial. What the hell is wrong with people. Ancestry manages Find a Grave. I got threatened with police action because the evil administrators refused to give my account back after it was removed. How do messages work? 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. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. Gatsey, check Find A Grave's Help section to make sure you are sending your messages to the correct email address. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. So yeah! Other details can be found and verified on one of the family history websites - some of which are free. 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. And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. 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. Most people defending this site use finding a passed family member from hundreds of years ago as an excuse, and I understand that, however I do not understand that they take pictures of children only recently passed. Then rebaptize the dead into the Mormon faith. Nuff said. 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. Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. 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 had my fathers memorial, my grandfathers, my grandmother, my great grand parents stolen from my control by someone who isn't related. Mormons view of religion is a little different than Western thought. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. Put a new memorial or photo on an existing one, and use the memorial's location and photo to make it more visible. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Or at least you were, as I'm replying to this years after your post. They need to be documented while they still exist so future family members can honor their memory too. 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. all people have their own rights or privacy even if they die. If you really not wish photo being f###ed by starngers, dont put them on line John Charles Chandler (1835-1911) - Find a Grave Memorial The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. Then why do you think they have the Burial Unknown Mechanic, Lee? 1. Did I post the information of the drunk teenager that killed her? Memorial: Mary Payne ([protected]) Billion graves have a lot of stones too. FindAGrave Can Hold Off on the Recently Deceased | Rootdig.Com