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Desired outcome is for Wendy EBENSTEIN Norman to transfer my grandfather's Find a Grave Memorial Page to me. I've been sent many messages of great thanks for doing so, including from many adoptees. In most cases they don't. Please, get your morals together, get in touch with reality, and then get back to me and clear up what you have stated. More precisely people who want to create a memorial for a deceased loved one. if findagrave not allow, it's disrespectful to that real-dead person. they have family/friends help them compete for the right and privacy. This is a cemetery site, not just a memorial site. IF IT BOTHERS YOU, GO FIND THE BURIAL YOURSELF IF YOU THINK IT"S EASY. I only record what is mentioned on the stone. I do not care how many countless hours "Find A Grave's cyber ghouls put into it. This website uses future generations as an excuse to take photos of children, babies, adults, of all ages and post them online. Also, how long has it been since you emailed them? cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Says their third great grandfather was the brother of my third great grandfather. How FindAGrave Could - and Should - Be Made Better Find A Grave is open to anyone creating a memorial for a deceased person with a known disposition. Often obituaries are no longer findable, after a certain length of time. The process of asking findagrave to give you a memorial someone else is managing? Create a findagrave.com account and then click "suggest edits" and then there will be an option to request management of the memorial. Finally, ### is neither all bad or all good, but some issues need to be addressed in civilized matter and in fairness to all users. Sometimes if you ask nicely, someone will comply with your wishes. I've corrected Ms. DiMarco's errors and removed info the family doesn't want to share. If you have a complaint about Find a Grave, first contact the site administrator. And They do not need member ID or profile link. When I started genealogy research 2 years ago I was grateful to find information on loved ones. I too thought that direct family should include aunts and uncles. Now This person is going after my family full bore on FamilySearch and refusing me my own family as per FINDAGRAVES rules. The person who has invaded my family's privacy has created 55 thousand of these things. Not true! Find and visit a loved one's final resting place anywhere, anytime. 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. Find a Grave is connected to Ancestry. 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. Begin your search by either entering the cemetery name and location (by city, county, state, or country), or you can browse cemeteries by location. So then what, do you expect to get paid anyway? (they are in many places) Marriages and divorces? God forbid you had a famous relative? Find a Grave singles out only certain people. Terminate Brenda Beatty McGraw. 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). 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." For immediate removal: Please remove Memorial #[protected]. especially towards Chinese superstitious people. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. I attempted to get Megan Heyl to turn these memorials back over to the family. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Yes, I know what they are supposed to do.. 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! There are spelling errors and incorrect info. all the info that told about who he was related to, and the story that was in the newspaper is gone from his web site now . I'll write again to let everyone know the outcome of this. Your argument is that findagrave is an open, safe space for individuals who can create memorials of family members and friends. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. if you not know the person, you take their headstone, put on findagrave. And he is friends with [censored] staff because he had something done to one of my postings so that it could not be edited. Man it's their photo not your photo. What is the Difference Between BillionGraves and Find A Grave for Find a Grave - Apps on Google Play Forums - Find a Grave Another example is Captain Samuel Chew, who died on 4 Mar 1778. Choose a topic below to begin. I have been in a cemetery when a church group of about 30 swooped in and started downloading headstones. I have contacted find a grave through their website and received one response but no corrections! if you think dead has no privacy, WRONG. Find A Grave Review - Genealogy Explained To a point, I don't blame him. The new "Complaints" page was created by the same person, Mr. Pritchard, who contributed the 13 complaints. Read full review of Find A Grave and 1 comment. Furthermore, nobody actually "owns" a grave. That is true, however I have requested several times even sent the find a grave and as you said they dont care. John Charles Chandler (1835-1911) - Find a Grave Memorial Flower Abuse On Find A Grave - FuneralDirect Don't buy into it. Stop awarding points like trophies. . if realy so (if so). U can also change photos and music any time u wantno restrictions. It isn't about money or the amount of headstones I can download, it is about carrying on family history. The free plan is basic. These ghouls harvest photos from non private trees and then post the info on Find A Grave. 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 am a contributor with over 800 memorials added, mostly from the 1800's. 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. Have you tried contacting him on the memorial's Edit page? I was wondering if they shut down. My condolences to you and your family. FindAGrave Addicts - Genealogy Wise I have complained to Find A Grave several times about misinformation on my family site (father, grandfather, grandmother and great grandparents) and use of their head stones without my permission. I'm going to contact them again and if it's not resolved I will have to see what legal action I can take, Find A Grave's top contributor cyber ghouls r banned from photographing tombstones. Find contact information for federal, state, and local government officials. When confronted they claim they r performing.a service if families want it or not. 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. Megan Heyl to give my son back. 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). Put a new memorial or photo on an existing one, and use the memorial's location and photo to make it more visible. Once you r booted out the personal data is cateloged and deceased loved one is rebaptized into the Mormon faith. If that means I have a rock to mark my burial site, so be it. Ancestry manages Find a Grave. A system error has occurred. Jul 19 2017. everyone wants the records to be as correct as we can get them! My heart goes out to you. 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. It's totally against what their mission is. On Ancestry, in the "global" index for body dispositions that are unknown, surviving relatives are mentioned on those find a grave memorial pages. For the child - the original marker withered away with the passing of time. Some of us are private people and just want to be left alone. Search the BBB Directory | Better Business Bureau. Start with Trust People add information about cemeteries to the site to help identify the final disposition information of people buried there. I think it's very selfish to want to keep them to yourself. Not even the ones I paid to sponsor! But what they did do is give control to someone who claims to be related through my third great grandfathers brother. My lawyer has been contacted. It isn't particularly onerous, but it does require patience - - - and being civil. I want to RIP. As for Obit's find a grave dose say not to add names of living family members but some people still add them. Do not bring up respect when you yourself seem to have never even processed the topic. He then served for four and a half. There are two types of Memorials you can create..the basic similar to Find A Grave is free. Bill Sky-Eagle. Kind regards, 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. They are about a month behind in their email correspondence. God bless you all ! 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 If anyone asks me to remove their family members headstone I will gladly do so, if you can prove you are a direct relative. As a young man he joined. 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 with love or to research their kin. You wrote: Editor's Review: Find A Grave is a free resource for finding burial places and headstones around the world. Anyone who makes a free FindAGrave account can add memorial pages. Wowmost of you really need to get a life. Q: Where did you see anything at all, ANYWHERE, about Find A Grave themselves "saying" they "award points"? I have sent this person several messages and no response there will be action taken against her too. I can see that people have different points of few, but some posts here have been rather tackless, almost cruel and cruel. Some families just want 2 be left alone without rehashing family ties. If you have specific examples, please forward those in the email to us. So you consider adding a memorial on there before the person is even buried as empathetic? so, u guys can also see that, steal people family/friend funeral is stupid. 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. I've got 10 memorials, TEN, and have been a member for 14 years on Find a Grave. This commonplace.Memorial Park themed cemeteries. Are you going to say "facebook is public, not yours. FindAGrave has more than 154 million memorials on its site and is a valuable research tool. PropertyProf Blog - Typepad 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". Find a Grave is a volunteer project. If you complain to FindAGrave's hierarchy you are either suspended or blocked from the site. This is very basic courtesy. It is invasion of privacy, and simply does not follow any morals. You don't not belong on complaintsboard. 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. The whole point of a grave stone is to publicly honor the person's life. Forms, by Agency Find a U.S. federal government form by choosing the agency that publishes it. Whether that is seen in person or photographed and posted online, I guess I don't see the difference. 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. I am not dead, yet! yes ask findagrave admin delete that photo. 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 They're making a tidy bundle off of your work. Big, fat demented I don't want her u can have her circus freak, Megan Heyl is holding my decessed 6 month old son's memorial hostage and refuses to turn ownership back to me. The person who stole them claims to be related although they arent and they have never met any of my family. Method 1 Searching Individual Headstones 1 Visit the cemetery if you know where it is. I started on there when it first started as a way to link my family and friends family for future generations, but once they started making it a contest it became distasteful and grotesque. Doesn't bring back my daughter, but at least helps. Many private cemeteries have banned FindAGravd's top contributor cyber ghouls from taking photos of tombstones. Ask the Community "How do I?" questions about the Find a Grave website. Best wishes, A person by the name of Joan Donnelly Ellis stole my partners photo from the funeral home web site and changed the obituary, she had no business doing that. Find a Grave used a photo of me for someone else. FindAGrave is LSD an extension of the Mormon Church. especially if the girl is even NOT DEAD YET. Find a Grave - Online Search. We'd love to hear from you. If she isn't corrected, my family and I will take further action. I lost my daughter in 1978. REMOVE THE SUBJECT MEMORIAL: [protected], This person Brenda Beatty McGraw, working for Find a Grave constantly documents false vital statistics concerning my family tree. Sharon Haywood. 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. Graves do not have copyrights either. You don't have to play Looney tunes with a top contributor ever. But this past month has been a nightmare. Sad, because I do not want to return to the site now. This is totally wrong. 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). I couldn't care less about the number of memorials I create (you refer to these as "points"; I assure you, they are not); have GREAT empathy, compassion and respect when it comes to the dead, and certainly don't chase bodies. Open to both member questions and member answers. 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. At the time he was a soldier in the 26th Cameronians Regiment. They are by states of where the person was buried. I use it to the best of my ability to help others. Most likely FindAGrave will also threaten u with law enforcement for stalking in addition to legal action. New York Cemeteries FamilySearch I have only been a member maybe 6 months I would never delete anyones work. 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. Reported Problem: Not accurate - Their data conflicts with my data. Find a Grave on the App Store View social follower numbers, contact emails, reviews and podcasts like Grave Matters. I am absolutely revolted! FuryH, Sure, sure if you're anal enough to enjoy all that cataloging and picture takin, etc then fine, but your getting screwed and smiling about it Might want to learn some self respect. That sucks. - had parents of someone posted in the wrong cemetery, so I photocopied the page from the cemetery book & posted it on the pages for her parents to show correct place of burial, Ladybug threw a fit, reported me & I got the boot; Ladybug was rude as heck to me in several emails, but I guess that doesnt matter. You must ask permission from the deceased person's family before you take those headstone photos. Nobody would love f## site. They were being my managed by Patsy Lubben DiMarco who IGNORES transfer requests. Therefore, those records are not searchable. They email the requester and tell them that they sent a message to the memorial owner. "if you can prove you are a direct relative"How is proving done over the internet to a stranger ? Spare me. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. They stated I was 'harassing' them, despite me trying to calm the situation to get my account restored. Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. based on information from your browser. She was an infant and her headstone on find a grave is a way of keeping her memory alive with some Search tips Photo of Antioch Pioneer Cemetery by Harold & Wanda Blackwell On this day Tony Meehan was born on this date in 1943. For what it is worth, when I fulfill a photo request, I never stand on a grave. This allows people to add tombstones they come across in their cemetery explorations . There have been 250K claims filed against the government. Or at least you were, as I'm replying to this years after your post. It is a disgusting desecration on my sister's grave and memory! I have been a member of FindaGrave for many years. 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. Not just steal. When I got to my ggg grandmother, I went to connect her memorial to one of her daughter's memorials which just so happened to be managed by a person named "Scout" who LITERALLY is managing over 200,000 Ancestry company - "Findagrave" is effectively holding my grandparents memorials hostage. TeeJLee, What process? And sharon shout out loud "this is my precious hard work" File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Contact Us - Find A Grave Contact Us We'd love to hear from you. 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 ----- And as far as "trampling on a grave" I am ALWAYS careful to NOT step on any grave (provided there's still any indication of one) and use my zoom lens instead. A problem occurred. Review the Help section for answers to the most common questions. Can I charge money as a Photo Volunteer? Find more than 951,266 complaints| Ripoff Report I have no way to access to my account. this is serious violation to your daughter's personal image/reputation. yes it's funeral site. i added family memorials for genealogy purposes so that future generations would easily track ancestors. I agree with you Singatune, Find A Grave - Complaints Board - Resolving consumer complaints since 2004 I probably could get it back if I bought Megan Heyl a cart load of cheezos. Billion graves have a lot of stones too. 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. My last name - there only 7 of us suppose to be as.Actually only 2ofbus and the rest wife and children. because findagrave should NOT allow people take unauthorized headstone and claim "DEAD PEOPLE PRIVACY IS GONE". 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 Home Funeral Services Grave Solutions Grave Solutions 224 inquiries | Funeral Services File Complaint All Photos | Videos 1134 Round Pebble Ln Reston, VA 20194-1016 | Get Directions (703) 742-4678 Company Rating B View Rating Explanation based on 0 reviews. We can resolve this issue. You've closed your mind to anything other . Ask for permission. 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]. It is owned by Ancestry and Ancestry is not owned by the church. Findagrave does not relinquish hold on a memorial when their representative is not reachable to contact. Seriously? Find A Grave is eventually going to be sued and it will undoubtedly take down the site and their business. 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. Anne Maher McKay Be mindful of what you say and you must have respect in dealing with this. 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. So I took it upon myself to purchase a brand new grave marker. If they deny, I would then forward the email to support@findagrave.com, to request an immediate release of ownership of memorial, from current owner to you. The day of publicly available data is here and increases daily. Saying "there is no reason" is like a petulant child plugging their ears. 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. As a result, misspelled names, incorrect dates of birth and dates of death, unrelated family members and the list goes on, are written in these memorials. If you don't have cemetery burial information they shouldn't be put up. And, they have placed a lot of misinformation on their sites. Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience." Find a grave.com photographed my 6 year old daughter's headstone and put it online. If people want to keep stuff private, then they shouldnt print obituaries. Find a Grave

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