the site should really remove that photo especially if your 6-yr daugther had not died. Failure of Wendy Ebenstein Norman to transfer my grandfather's Memorial Page to me, after numerous requests. or "PRECIOUS HARD WORK" I have a good clue who is doing this to our flowers we leave on confederate veterans memorials. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. When I started genealogy research 2 years ago I was grateful to find information on loved ones. This should only be about putting up memorials and helping people find their loved ones, THAT'S IT. Concerns Anne McKay buried in Templeogue cemetery,Dublin,Ireland- date of death 13 February 1962. Ask for permission. I contacted FindAGrave and they ignored my requests even though their new rules of conduct r very explicit that when confronted these "major contributors" supposed to turn memorials back to the family. The same thing has happened to me and my suggestion never went through. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. It's totally against what their mission is. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. You wrote: Transfer management of my grandparents memorials to me, their granddaughter. Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". 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) I use it to the best of my ability to help others. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. FindAGrave is LSD an extension of the Mormon Church. Find a Grave used a photo of me for someone else. I asked for a transfer but got NO RESPONSE. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. 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 You are one of a kind, Findagrave administrators steal my family pages from me and change them. Well, Sharon Haywood, many of the volunteers here don't even hold an ounce of respect when they do this. Forever Missed's top package is something like $30.00 bucks. They don't care if their site is riddled with viruses and unsuspecting computer catch it. This comment was posted by a verified customer. 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. Also F.A.G says they award points, so beef with them. A system error has occurred. Desired outcome: He was the Captain of the brig Resistance during the Revolution and was killed in action at sea north of Barbados. Please include the cemetery ID number or the URL to the cemetery page on Find a Grave. This bored housewife manages OVER 8,600 memorials and ignores requests to transfer. 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. This complaint was posted by a verified customer. Ask for permission. they will ban her. So yeah! So I am very sorry for your loss, as I still have not gotten over mine, fortunately for me, I now have a nine year old granddaughter from my 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. It is essentially a long term lease from the cemetery. Then you are suspended. Find a Grave - Online Search. Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. I am also a member of Ancestry which owns FindaGrave, yet there has been no correction and no help. 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. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. This was a second marriage for Mary Ann when she had been widowed and married James Payne in 1862. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. I have contacted find a grave through their website and received one response but no corrections! Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. or else. Kind regards. Kristy is an internationally known Psychic Medium and Psychic Detective. 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. Find A Grave is not owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. To a point, I don't blame him. Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. 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 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.. Explore All Topics and Services on USA.gov Top But the practice of find a grave to "award" people for creating memorials has become a disgusting practice whereas in order to get the numbers they lose all sense of humanity and compassion. I understand how it would feel really wrong to have a young child, recently gone, posted on the site but I really don't think there's much to be done about it. And Ancestry owns Find a Grave. Not everyone who takes photos of graves is unwilling to respond. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. 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. 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? Meanwhile, I'm calling findagrave now. What is the Find a Grave Community? 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. My comment is not directed at those who do it for their own genealogy or add friends. Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? I too thought that direct family should include aunts and uncles. She refused. I was wondering if they shut down. 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. I know this person and his family . 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. However, there are two key areas where FindAGrave could be made better and should be made better. The site would consist solely of faked pictures. I have no issue with someone adding OLD graves they found while walking the cemeteries. With no regard for the family Megan Heyl also added time sensitive material that is really none of her business i.e. It's a wonderful starting point for research, though I'd never, ever take anything I found on the site as credible in itself. Totally agree. I am 13 years old and I understand this more than the adults doing this out of "the kindness of their hearts." Find a Grave uses volunteers to assemble burial/body disposition details about individuals. 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. Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. it's your choice to take unauthorized headstone and put on findagrave. Choose a topic below to begin. Every one listen, this website is a blessing to everyone that's on it, it was put here to view memorials and find peace. Sharon Haywood. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. We can resolve this issue. For your money u can add videos, music and unlimited photos. Precious hard work needs to respect copyright, do u understand, sharon haywood By the time I got home 2 hours later my family was already loaded. Findagrave is gross and obscene. Yes, I know what they are supposed to do.. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. I tried to inform Find A Gave of the issue but to no avail. just disappeared ? People add information about cemeteries to the site to help identify the final disposition information of people buried there. This is not even "precious hard work" when you steal the headstone photo and put on your own findagrave.com What they do believe in concerning an after life is an eternal plain that is tended by a mother and father God. 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. Get a life. . Send Find a Grave a PM on FB and let them know you want memorials transferred. The nice thing about "Forever Missed" the memorial is yours. Bill Sky-Eagle. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. I refuse to wait 2 weeks, which is what I've been told by "Findagrave". "Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect dealing with this." If findagrave will call me back, i'll let them know the name of the stalker who is a contributor on findagrave. 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! 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. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Approximately 1 Reports Found. Being a republican or democrat should have nothing to do with findagrave and southern history of our confederate veterans memorials. That shows me they DID NOT do the research correctly on the memorial. 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 monitor controls about 300,000 or more memorials and is on a power trip and politics. Previously, I had a friend write me my other experience on 'people who hate memorials listed as burial details unknown'. 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. People like that just want to get numbers and be big on the web site. Not just steal. Anne Maher McKay Showing 1-1 | Showing Page 1 of 1. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. TeeJLee, What process? People add information to the site by walking a cemetery and taking pictures, or from obituaries, other records or from information they have about family members. we are adults providing precious information to those who cannot visit a grave site. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. Are you upset with public death certificates published online? He then served for four and a half. I got a kick from this off their faq page: Hey James, 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. So contact ancestry.Com about this. 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". 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. I gladly turn them over to family members who want to put information and pictures. Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. Many Find A Grave ghouls r also members of ancestry . "Find A Grave's" support generally ignores family requests in favour of their cyber ghouls who r constantly on the lookout to create just one more memorial in hopes of hitting the million mark. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records World's largest gravesite collection. Many people enjoy walking through cemeteries and taking pictures. Yes Virginia. There was a problem getting your location. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some They just would not listen. So, NO the I wouldn't trust anyone who did genealogy research using Find A Grave. 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. Thanks for your help! If you follow the process, you can get the change made - but it isn't a speedy process. It's definitely not a contest. I made no comments about the timeline of adding memorials, scanning of obituaries, nor any comment about how many memorials certain people have. dead people have no privacy (when people die privacy is gone) it's not right. 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 Contributors need to respect that, Desired outcome: Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. In many cases the correct markers can't be located or definitely identified, especially when they are old. The person who has my grandparents on his list of memorials has 25, 000 and has been there for 15 years. Man it's their photo not your photo. So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. 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. Anyone else wants to make "corrections", like a bored housewife, YOU get to decline. Their top contributors do not research people. 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. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. 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. Action, and change of name on Memorial or transfer to myself so I can put pertinent information on the Memorial. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section. Nothing has changed and no one has contacted me regarding the matter. 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). Findagrave sucks. About the company This site has been active for more than 20 years, first appearing online way back in 1995. I never heard back so it's still there. Do u know. This browser does not support getting your location. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. they have family/friends help them compete for the right and privacy. And They do not need member ID or profile link. 1. Someone needs to get rid of these evil people to stop what they doing or get this site shut down!. Other details can be found and verified on one of the family history websites - some of which are free. Your argument is that findagrave is an open, safe space for individuals who can create memorials of family members and friends. This includes both general and info of a more private nature that most families do nor want published on the net. They are more interested in grabbing a tombstone in hopes of getting brownie points. BBB Scam Tracker Still Need Assistance? you are lucky enough to find findagrave steal your daughter photo but it's just a fortune you find out, many people online may use your daughter photos already.