Find a GraveReviews of findagrave.com

Is this some joke of a website? Total strangers trawling through cemetery records then adding them as their personal memorial records. Families should own their own family members memorial records and no one else. Surely there are copyright issues that should be applied and this site taken down immediately. My Father paid for a new headstone for my Great Grandparents and we took a photo of it and uploaded it to a newly created memorial. Someone then sends me a message saying it is a duplicate and could I remove it and now using my photo on their memorial record. How can anyone accumulate nearly two million headstones and claim that they now’own’ these graves. It is totally sickening and lacks any dignity or integrity whatsoever. The owners of this site should be prosecuted and have this site removed and banned from operating in this way

You don’t allow other people to manage other family’s graves ! And then there is disrespectful people who think they own my families graves ! Disgusting policy from an awful company !

They are theives. They stole 2 memorials from me and refused to give me credit. I am sick of it and so done giving second chances. Burn for it find a grave. Karma is real and may you feel the heat hard.

I been on Findagrave for over 11 years and it seems to be getting worse than better. Customer support is terrible. They delete memorials without letting the creator know. They have no way of blocking unwanted members from contacting you.. you got to accept all or none. So I finally decided none is the best option. Also the number of adverts is sometimes ridiculous. And they just increased the cost of sponsoring memorials from 5$ to 10$ and the new format is also terrible.. So I will not be sponsoring anymore memorials there. Or adding many more memorials there.. I have started to delete most of my memorials that were there. I will only keep the few that I sponsor. The ones I have a particular interest in I will move to my own websites. I do not feel like letting Findagrave make money off my research while they provide an unresponsive and toxic environment to persist.

Nightmare for relatives doing genealogy research. Memorial managers are very possessive about the memorials they manage. They completely disregard any sources you provide by not even reading them. They think they’re Gods. They remind me of the elder government officials running our country who desperately cling to power and refuse to allow younger generations who actually use technology to make sources-based contributions. Some managers never bother to reply to messages at all. One manager posted an unmarked newspaper clipping (no source) stating that a relative died in Alabama when he never lived there. In his bio she wrote he died in London and in an email to me she wrote that she believed he died in Canada. I believe this woman is incapable of managing her own memorial, much less the memorial of my 3x great grandfather. Would I recommend findagrave? No. Will I opt out? Yes. Been using site for six months and had nothing but problems with greedy, self-righteous Memorial managers.

They no longer have reviews for the cemetery. My mom and brother are in, it no longer recognizes the name of Greenhill cemetery in San Pedro or Palo Verdes. Also, if you stay on the site long enough, it will tell you that it is scanning your hard drive and it will tell you that your Norton is no longer working, so I don’t have Norton

LESS than ONE STAR! I have requested to manage one of my great aunt's children's memorial. (She is my first cousin once removed) I have done extensive time-consuming research and posted beautiful pictures of her as a younger person that I acquired from family onto her Memorial. She in my family tree which Find A Grave asks us now if we are related If we are family why does FInd A Grave want to know? ... I have been turned down, and must work with a person that is currently managing my ancestor’s memorial page that won’t communicate with me. I pray, he will allow me to manage her page b/c I’m tired of begging Find A Grave employees. I have been told, by a Find A Grave employee (that I have to wait 21 days to have the edits approved by a senior employee at Find a Grave) b/c he ( the current manager) won’t do them and is not related to anyone in my family tree... If being a relative isn't that important, why are they asking? Thx J.

There is no accountability to the volunteers that are disrespectful to family members trying to get transfers. There needs to be away to look these graves after transfers to family members, exspically when dealing with volunteers who are just in it for the number listing. The one that holds the majority of my family and is not related to my family. He grabbed them back in 2012 did very few things, other volunteers added information. He put my grandmothers birth certificate at the time I asked for her transfer. This is a response I received from him about a transfer of my 2nd great grandfather. "Since you very recently burst upon the scene, you immediately became a grabber, a collector. This site is not a candy wagon spewing out candy to see how much candy a kid can stuff in their candy bag. Memorials are not to be viewed as property, as something to OWN. A huge number of contributors have spent an enormous amount of hours making this site the valuable resource that it is. You have not shown any inclination to add new memorials, but just to request transfers of already existing ones." I didn’t know about the 2great grandparent transfer rules, (the one that held his wife in another city transferred without hesitation). All the other transfers were within that rules. I asked for my aunt but before transferring her. He went through every one of my family members and started putting marriage licenses and other items, and requested a load of corrections to them. There are other family members that fall within that rule, when I ask for transfers what is he going to add to them before transfering. The generation things needs to change, most of the 2nd generation in the USA is from immigrants that came to this country in the 1800s. These families should be able to put information in that we know is correct, and be able to tell their story. These graves are peoples ancestors and should never be allowed to be held by non family members. Personally I’m not jumping on the bandwagon and grabbing people I don’t know, and telling their family history, that is for each family to do themselves. Maybe find a grave should get rid of totals of what volunteers have contributed, so it’s not a completion to see how many they can grab, how many contributions they made, how many they mange, and how many hold. They would definitely weed out the bad volunteers. Because when it comes down to it these graves each have a history, and should never be used as a game.