But this past month has been a nightmare. We are not associated with the cemetery and don't have any information beyond what the community has added. 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 Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world. Interesting. Use it to search for burial information and gravestone images among the 160 million online memorials volunteers have logged at Find A Grave. All because they are not respectful of families and not responsible for the content. I've got 10 memorials, TEN, and have been a member for 14 years on Find a Grave. because findagrave should NOT allow people take unauthorized headstone and claim "DEAD PEOPLE PRIVACY IS GONE". Each memorial on Find a Grave has a manager who is responsible to update or correct the memorial. I am now being stalked by these administrators and they dont stop. Do you want your child forgotten? It was not put here for it to be a tug of war or a battleground everyone must follow the rules and regulations and not step on anyone's feet. 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. If a family member has asked you to remove a memorial, than you do it. Mostly we are retired in any case. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. I have contacted the prosecutor and state police. Your argument is that findagrave is an open, safe space for individuals who can create memorials of family members and friends. By CVal, 2 hours ago. The actual property is owned by the cemetery or county/state and what you, me and the rest of the world "owns" is the space set aside for our loved ones. What they do believe in concerning an after life is an eternal plain that is tended by a mother and father God. And daily scanning of obituaries to add and having 200k memorials? It's a wonderful starting point for research, though I'd never, ever take anything I found on the site as credible in itself. Solution: Make a new account, follow the rules, and be nice. That also shows me that this person's hobby is spending constant hours on Find a Grave for her/his number count. they have family/friends help them compete for the right and privacy. Ask for permission. I've created over a thousand memorials and thousands of photos, some were by request, others not. Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? They do have a number and findagrave is owned by Ancestry.Com. Find A Grave is one of the free resources online that you can tap into to get the clues that you are after. Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. I am a private person in life and I want privacy when I die. These indexes on Ancestry.com are free to use by everyone, whether you have a subscription or not. There are two types of Memorials you can create..the basic similar to Find A Grave is free. I have a person doing that with my relatives on my grandparents side of the family and he refuses to turn them over to me. NO I DID NOT! Do you want your child forgotten? So then what, do you expect to get paid anyway? You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. 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 do not care how many countless hours "Find A Grave's cyber ghouls put into it. I only post a headstone photo that I personally have taken and sometimes link a person to a spouse. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. They play upon emotion. I even put in for a forgot password thinking I had it wrong and I don't even get a email to reset it. Not even the ones I paid to sponsor! 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. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. 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. Have you read Find A Grave's Help section on what to do if your Edit is declined? Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. The dead have no right to privacy. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. You create a Memorial for a deceased loved one. Many memorials are created with information about survivors. It all boils down to how well you play with others. Good luck ! all people have their own rights or privacy even if they die. Meanwhile, I'm calling findagrave now. The answer is NO and she's not going to respond to emails. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. It is in fact not precious hard work, it is simply walking around and taking pictures of graves. Take William Butten's find-a-grave memorial. Please wait a few minutes and try again. I do it because it helps many people to feel closer to a loved one. Find A Grave continues its mission to provide a collaborative community where members can contribute memorials and record burial dispositions If you have any questions regarding this or any other matters pertaining to Find A Grave, please do not hesitate to contact senior administration directly at support@findgrave.com Sincerely, Find A Grave "Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online," wrote the user. These so called "major contributors" also post family photos they have swiped from the net. 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. Yet the "manager" of this site refuses to correct the error after I informed them that I'm a family member and provided them with a link to the named cemetery which lists the names of all individuals buried there. I had my fathers memorial, my grandfathers, my grandmother, my great grand parents stolen from my control by someone who isn't related. that is why the remaining family can judge for the dead person. Jul 19 2017. Find and visit a loved one's final resting place anywhere, anytime. It is a disgusting desecration on my sister's grave and memory! Other details can be found and verified on one of the family history websites - some of which are free. Please try again later. My condolences to you and your family. 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. They are by states of where the person was buried. Nothing is sacred here. She can even risk to take grave photos unauthorized U can add unlimited photos in addition to music mp3 files + plus videos. If you can't find someone on the site, it's probably just . But when I find it, post it and notify the requestor that are overjoyed. Plan to go early in the day, in case it takes you a while to find the exact location. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. This is a warped site managed by sub human creatures that crawled out from public sewers. So any suggestions? Its directed at those whos compulsion is to have as many as they can for their own greedy ego. I'd like to say that this website is in fact, not a blessing. Find A Grave should monitor this kind of behavior, and if those people refuse to follow the rules, then they should be banned. deleting precious hard work that someone has done is very disrespectful. TeeJLee, What process? "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. To suggest an update, go to the memorial and click the Suggest Edits button below the birth and death information. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. Get those cheap skates to pay you! I asked that they please have the spouse or parents of that person contact me and I'd be glad to do whatever they wished but I wouldn't remove it from just that email. Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. The same thing has happened to me and my suggestion never went through. so, u guys can also see that, steal people family/friend funeral is stupid. 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 "known disposition" is the key - you have to know the disposition BEFORE you add a memorial. 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). You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. Being bitter and calling people names because you are upset is wrong. Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! Speaking for myself the answer is NO. I already had a memorial created soon after my nephews passing. 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. About the company This site has been active for more than 20 years, first appearing online way back in 1995. State, Local, and Tribal Governments Find contact information for state, local, and tribal governments. If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. Did you include a link to your profile or your member number? I gladly turn them over to family members who want to put information and pictures. For some cemeteries, it is against their policy to allow pic taking/give plot info to non-family for security/privacy purposes. This account has been disabled. My computer system is set up to alert me if something downloads without my permission so it was caught almost immediately. That's what you want the memorials you want to control transferred to you. Celine McKay Removing pics at their request is Respect. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. Ancestry manages Find a Grave. 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. cemeteries found in Pimpama, Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list.. We had collected written history of his life and contributions to Montgomery county Md. the email is from his daughter (she claim it's his daughter) but sounds like it's pretending his daughter. If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. Findagrave has mounted information against my permission, and I'm having to retain an attorney because of find-a-grave's unscrupulous behavior. 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. 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. 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. 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. You will get no place arguing with FindAGrave's hierarchy or major contributors. They do nothing about it. 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 ? The free plan is basic. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. . Desired outcome: The rationale: They do not want a resting place for the dead to be devourered by FindAGrave's cyber knowitall undertakers. Find a Grave states that this is against their guidelines. Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. For example, I have a cousin whose memorial was posted, no picture of the headstone, no information on all her pass husbands ( she was married 6 times, only one mentioned because it was on her obituary which was posted in an El Paso, Texas newspaper. This should only be about putting up memorials and helping people find their loved ones, THAT'S IT. God bless you all ! Just so you know. Are you going to say "facebook is public, not yours. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. 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). I was wondering if they shut down. 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. The bottom line some families just want to be left alone. 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. To a point, I don't blame him. I don't know who took your daughter's photo (or anyone else in here). 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. Desired outcome: My older brother was put up on findagrave without my family's permission, which my mother found out about years ago, and she wasn't given a reply when she requested to have it removed. Within 5 miles of your location. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. dead people have no privacy (when people die privacy is gone) it's not right. Maybe a mom from my father who died 1974. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section. This is very basic courtesy. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. 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. You then control exactly what's on the memorial. people would mistaken that she had died. Remove the name of the original creator & the number from their count when the memorial is transferred to a family member. A trojan virus downloaded onto my computer when I was on Find A Grave and clicked on a family name within a memorial. I, just like you, add individual memorials so that future generations can utilize the information as they may need or want. Back then it was a site consisting of records of celebrities and their burial sites. 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. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. 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. An alternative - Forever Missed. And almost as many gravestone photos. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. I have been a member of Find-A-Grave for close to 9 months and submitted over a thousand photos and memorials that many people are grateful to find. I can see that people have different points of few, but some posts here have been rather tackless, almost cruel and cruel. If you don't want her known, then remove her headstone or put her in a more private place (urn). 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. Claim it and get a lot of features. There are also the ones on a power trip that treat memorial pages like Pokemon(TM) cards. In my case I created a memoral 4 my Grandmother and also a memorial for a favoured child who died in infancy. From there this dysfunctional woman took over my mother's memorial in addition to the already 50,000 memorials she has under her belt. The site would consist solely of faked pictures. Legally and geneticly they are not related at all. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. dead person family can still object if they dont want. I take GREAT pride in linking people with their deceased family members to connect these families, piece them back together, after death. I have helped many people find long lost ancestors from several generations back with many not knowing where their ancestors were buried. How ridiculous! Is this your company? My nephew passed on new year's eve. Sigh of relief. Sad life when people have nothing better to do with their time. This is not hard work. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. 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 It is very obvious that he is upset with Find-A-Grave. 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! if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. What is the Find a Grave Community? Everyone feels differently about this though. Nobody would love f## site. 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. When I add names, etc. And yes, they are a husband-wife . Since my daughter's crime is unsolved I have reported this to the detectives on the case. At the time he was a soldier in the 26th Cameronians Regiment. I have sent this person several messages and no response there will be action taken against her too. Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. May I add most of the memorials r created by bored housewives who make a game of how many of these things they can make. If you spend gas and money doing this on your own, tough [censored], you can't complain about anything, YOU CHOSE to do the work, get over it. Once redeemed these souls may enter heaven and start having children. Stone doesn't last forever . Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. now findagrave even suspended me and deleted my dead freind burial records. It is both hurtful and embarrassing to family members. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. TeeJLee, From my and others' experience, findagrave sends messages via every email. It is a numbers game and there is no effort put into true research, the bios are limited if they even provide one. from 5 Stanford Green, Walkinstown, Dublin ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. This is very basic courtesy. This person has harassed me even on created memorials I worked hard on. Added almost 3000 memorials. 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. With no regard for the family Megan Heyl also added time sensitive material that is really none of her business i.e. My parents and grandparents memorials were hijacked by Patsy Lubben DiMarco. My mother-in-law's site is totally inaccurate; says where she's buried. Findagrave.com user terms require anyone managing a memorial to turn management control over to a direct relative when requested. ^^^^^Seems to me that they are taking advantage of the people doing the photography. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Therefore, those records are not searchable. Find a Grave is an online community project. Historical Society. 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. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com I feel it is their family member and they should be allowed to honor them. When I checked, I fond that somebody already did and the info is all wrong as well. Learn more about requesting management here. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. 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. She said "you can not ruin people precious hard work" which makes me underlook her. Weve updated the security on the site. Find A Grave is eventually going to be sued and it will undoubtedly take down the site and their business. However with "Forever Missed" you r the creator and nobody can come along and take control. Failure of Wendy Ebenstein Norman to transfer my grandfather's Memorial Page to me, after numerous requests. Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? Many f## people are very unfriednly, when ladybug reported you, findagrave banned you so you can NOT see anything. Next disgusting is a point of view. think how bad it would mean. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. [1] The new "Complaints" page was created by the same person, Mr. Pritchard, who contributed the 13 complaints.