Find A Grave

Find A Grave owner Jim Tipton is a thief he creates a website for members to add burial information thus creating so called "memorials" he uses these memorials for ad space and charges members to sponsor these memorials. He makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the deaths of others loved ones and provides no service to the survivors.

He and his administration have a set of so called "faq's" that only apply to a few. Find A Grave members constantly steals obituaries, steals photos and information from newspapers, websites and funeral homes. Information provided by the family to the various media with permission for the information to be used only in those media forms NOT Find A Grave.

Find A Grave is notorious for violating copyrights and allowing its members to violate copyrights. Members are out thousands of dollars from their free work so that Jim Tipton can make a profit.

I caught him right after he had changed church records because he indicated that he had changed the information from unknown to Elizabeth Yant at the church website. Now he wrote an e-msil to.me saying he was going to make certain I was no longer a DAR member by disproving my ancestor's lineage.

Is he changing other records in his position? He accused me of being a liar when I applied with the DAR with a supplemental, meaning they had proved her lineage before with another member, and I only had to provide evidence. birth. death and marriage certificates, which I did, for the first five generations of lineage to Elizabeth Rothrock.

How can they let him possibly tamper with my family information, and bring my integrity into question? I earned what I received after many hours of research.

I've been being stalked by another member since January. Find A Grave Admins, an Senior Admins are doing nothing.

This individual is all over me and my family. She watches my every move. She creates, sponsors, and adds flowers to my family's memorials. She lies about her relationship to gain memorials from other managers.

She reports my family memorials as duplicates to hers which she creates using information from me. She posts incorrect information and rejects edits. She's even blocked the edit features on some of the memorials using a second account. It's maddening.

I could go on about all she's done, including messaging me via the edit feature after a senior admin told us to refrain from any contact on their website. This will never end. I even called Ancestry and of course they were if no help. This person needs to be removed from the website, but instead she's rewarded for creating thousands of memorials, some with the intention to harass.

I wish I'd never found Find A Grave. I ran into it by accident on Ancestry. If Ancestry can't offer a proper support system and telephone number they shouldn't be operating the site. I've purchased many sponsorships at $10.00 a piece.

I want to leave. There are no refunds. Even when they merge memorials and give your stalker the finished memorial you've got to beg for the refund of money they stole from you.

Greedy, disgusting company! The Admins are condescending and useless.

I manage my parents and grandparents memorials. Somehow someone was allowed to add my mother's sibling without my edit approval.

Also, someone was allowed to change and delete a photo on my father's without edit approval. The reason I managed them is for stuff like this not to happen. If a family member is the manager no one should be able to make the changes unless it's the managed relative. Find A Grave should not be allowed to override the approval.

This is sensitive and my dad was remarried and I suspect it was his widow messing around. I wanted my parents connected since my mother passed 28 years before my father. They were married 20 years. The widow made everything about her when my father passed including where he was buried and not next to my mom like planned.

I wanted my kids to see some history between the grandparents and great grandparents. Managed accounts should have an option for privacy and members should NOT be allowed to add or change anything.

I left Find A Grave for various reasons, One is that there is a contributor whos on the site hours before sun up and hours past sun down creating memorials and making sure no one gets them. I have been a photographer since 2015 and I have put in so much effort into them, and this person has done nothing but belittle me and tried his damnest to get me off the site for the stupidest reasons.

this person made complaints of duplicates, etc. to which by the way this person has been doing way more then me. He has made verbal and mental abuse to other contributors and got away with it. This contributor has had complaints against to admins and nothing has been done, he continues to get away with it and he sits on his hind end and laughs about it.

Admins favors this contributor for whatever reason, no matter what proof is sent to them, they favor this god awful contributor and If I ever rejoin, I will give this person a piece of my mind and I do not care what the admins have to say about it. I specifically asked admins to send my memorials to the contributors I know who will care for them in the event of my retirement of the site. When I did retire, they did not honor my request and this jokester of a contributor managed about 95% of what I had. and his numbers are now over 200,000 memorials and the photos that he does have were copyright from not only mine and does NOT credit me for my work, this person has done it to others too.

this person creates memorials for the deceased the SECOND the obituary is posted. How Sickning. I got booted off Find A Grave because of this person and he has his messages turned off (I wonder why).

So, I don't even bother with Find A Grave anymore. Too much stress and disappointment, not to mention the continuous abuse.