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I just joined the Find A Grave group because when looking for the exact location within the cemetery in which my mother is buried, I found a picture of her headstone on your website. I deeply resent that a stranger took a picture of her grave, put it on the Internet, and is asking for money for someone to sponsor her gravesite.

How presumptuous of this group to use and dishonor my mother by trying to make a profit from her death.

I would like to know how to get this picture and her name removed from your site immediately. and deleted from your website records.

Location: Walnut Creek, California

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Send an email to edit(at)findagrave(dot)com and tell them you want your mother and her info removed and give them the URL of the memorial. All done.

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Why did you join Find A Grave if you were not looking for the very data that you are complaining was entered by another person?

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Sir, I believe you don't have your facts straight. Find A Grave does not sell any data that is entered on their site, period!!

If your mother is buried in a private cemetery, then you possibly have an issue, but public burial sites are just that, they are public and folks join, free of charge, sites such as Find A Grave to share genealogical facts with folks from other parts of the country. I happen to live in S. C.

and have been thanked many times by folks in other parts of the country, for memorials I have created for their relatives that lived in my area. Public information is just that, it is public, and a person's name, birth, and death info is public info.

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You're the first person I've ever seen that complained that a 'stranger' took a picture of a headstone. Contributors to *** all over the world do this so that others may view or that a family or friend may 'visit' a loved one's grave who might not otherwise be able to.

Get real. Nobody is trying to 'pimp' your mother's grave.

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Wow, this all seems a bit over the top. *** has its drawbacks I guess but trying to support the website by asking every entry (not just 'your' mother's memorial) is rather minimal when you look at the fact that relatively few memorials actually get sponsors.

Sponsoring a memorial just means that no ads will show up when its viewed which I happen to like the idea of. These sites are not operated with free, unlimited resources. Everything costs money, like the computer you are reading this on. I rather like the fact that we can choose whether to support them or not based, in part, on our ability to do so and if we like the product enough to.

Google, Yahoo and so many others are much worse with advertising, and many sites only let you see a small bit of info and want you to pay for the rest. Ever try looking up a person's phone number and address?

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Try writing the profiteers at ancestry.com as they now own find a grave, which also has ALWAYS been for profit despite the lies they told on their website and despite the crushing stupidity of many of the volunteers who don't know what click-through link profits are, and aparently think that the $5 sponsorship fee money goes out in the air and evaporates. Let ancestry.com KNOW that this practice of making money off dead people's memorials is no way to spread good will on the internet. support@***.com, admin@***.com

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Tanner Lynn, perhaps you are more knowledgeable than I on this subject, but can you tell me when, and how many times, Find A Grave has forced you to pay a $5 memorial sponsorship fee? I already have the answer - NONE, if you look at the agreement that Find A Grave made with ancestry.com when they were acquired, you will find that ancestry.com agreed that Find A Grave would remain a free site.

Secondly, it seems that you have a problem with the "profiters" in our society, which is a trendy thing currently for the uninformed, so would you be so kind as to tell me where you get your money to live on and by what process you attain that money? I would suspect that somewhere along the line a profit had to be made in order to subsidize you and your liberal ilk.

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