find a grave complaints

This allows people to add tombstones they come across in their cemetery explorations . Seriously? if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. Their memorials should be taken over by Find A Grave, and Find A Grave can follow the rules it sets forth. Nobody is asking you to do anything so don't worry about it. And almost as many gravestone photos. This is true even on Newspapers.com (also owned by Ancestry). Findagrave does not help with suggested edits. Jul 19 2017. Action, and change of name on Memorial or transfer to myself so I can put pertinent information on the Memorial. Not true. The family story and history is greatly important; to me, and to others. The "known disposition" is the key - you have to know the disposition BEFORE you add a memorial. IS THIS THE "FAMILY VALUES" ANCESTRY GIVES SUCH GREAT LIP SERVICE TO ? I am a private person in life and I want privacy when I die. The new "Complaints" page was created by the same person, Mr. Pritchard, who contributed the 13 complaints. An alternative - Forever Missed. I think Find a Grave is a great site, but, I'm a little concerned with some certain people postings, especially on my ancestors that have been posted by people who do not do the research or who put in the wrong information. It's bad players like these that makes you question the motives of some of the [censored] contributors. Most likely FindAGrave will also threaten u with law enforcement for stalking in addition to legal action. 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." So, NO the I wouldn't trust anyone who did genealogy research using Find A Grave. My nephew passed on new year's eve. Graves do not have copyrights either. There was a problem getting your location. As for Obit's find a grave dose say not to add names of living family members but some people still add them. 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. 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. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? 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. I'll believe it when I see it; I can't imagine this being anywhere on the internet. If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. I have been a member of Find a Grave for almost 16 years, and work constantly to upgrade other Find a Grave memorials. I even added a picture of my relative and the person told@ me to take it down. I am also a member of Ancestry which owns FindaGrave, yet there has been no correction and no help. For the child - the original marker withered away with the passing of time. Copyrights are used for written material for the purpose of "making lawful copies". Personal Services: Find A Grave. I do not just run through grave yards and posts memorials for people I do not know or am related to. The headstone is the dead and their family, not yours. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. 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. Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. And sharon shout out loud "this is my precious hard work" Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. Stealing ppl headstone on your camera and put online on your own findagrave page, is not even hard work, it's vandalism, Reading sharon haywood post i just wanna laugh at her. This appears to be especially true for African American individuals and other individuals deemed to be not important enough, I am guessing. However there is not a lot that can be done about it. So yeah! I want to RIP. 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). If so, we already had this talk. Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. My Find a Grave ID is: [protected] You've closed your mind to anything other . 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. Contact Us - Find A Grave Contact Us We'd love to hear from you. Are you going to say "facebook is public, not yours. Everyone feels differently about this though. Imagine if people were making money from posting these photos. Thanks for your help! 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. Only family can create memorials under 90 days and Id suggest a year. This comment was posted by a verified customer. 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 . Truly pathetic. The fact alone that you are completely disregarding this mothers concerns shows how much you actually care. Claim it and get a lot of features. 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. Bill Sky-Eagle. Please reset your password. How ridiculous! Find a Grave is a volunteer project. 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. My daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered and the manager posted numerous newspaper articles about this in the bio section. 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. This person has harassed me even on created memorials I worked hard on. Nothing has been done and I'm upset! IF IT BOTHERS YOU, GO FIND THE BURIAL YOURSELF IF YOU THINK IT"S EASY. 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. Search above to list available cemeteries. About the company This site has been active for more than 20 years, first appearing online way back in 1995. I got threatened with police action because the evil administrators refused to give my account back after it was removed. I can google my name and find every city I've lived in, and all the way back to 1971 when I fell off a high diving board because its in the local newspaper. A trojan virus downloaded onto my computer when I was on Find A Grave and clicked on a family name within a memorial. 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. "Findagrave" has been given 24 hours to transfer Robert Paul Carmichael #[protected] and Jessie Jacobs Carmichael #[protected] memorials into my care. 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. 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]. Find a Grave singles out only certain people. So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. 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. Sometimes if you initiate polite conversation, they will comply or explain why they won't. so please everyone do not turn this beautiful website into a horror story. the important is all funeral and headstone photos must be authorized and legitimate and the owner let you use. 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. Go find something else to do, and remember when you're a VOLUNTEER that means YOU CHOOSE to do the work without any payment. What is the Find a Grave Community? There have been 250K claims filed against the government. Even if it's only photo share, if you not ask owner. Filing a complaint with local law enforcement though, is just plain wrong, a waste of taxpayer money. We welcome you to Grave Matters. She's also violating her fiduciary role as a "Findagrave" volunteer. There is a problem with your email/password. It's a wonderful starting point for research, though I'd never, ever take anything I found on the site as credible in itself. Within 5 kilometers of your location. What I do know is this tracking down ancestor graves is HARD work. Find a Grave is a fantastic app that allows you to add to the world's largest online cemetery database and search for graves. Interesting. Many memorials are created with information about survivors. Therefore, those records are not searchable. 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. All in all, I will say it again. Within 5 miles of your location. He then served for four and a half. Since my daughter's crime is unsolved I have reported this to the detectives on the case. Do you want your child forgotten? Man it's their photo not your photo. If you don't like it, just log off. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! 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. It is in fact not precious hard work, it is simply walking around and taking pictures of graves. So then what, do you expect to get paid anyway? I attempted to get Megan Heyl to turn these memorials back over to the family. 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. FindAGrave Administrators- Caleb, Mikenna, and Amber. 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. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? I've only received 1 complaint telling me (mind you not asking me) to remove the memorial. Anne Maher McKay Then they boot you out or ban u. Near the bottom of the edit page, you will see Other, press '+Suggest other corrections'.

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