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Find A Grave -Jim Tipton Thief
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...
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Location
San Antonio, Texas
Product
Find A Grave Website
New Reviewer
To actually speak with someone
This phone number is not to actual website find a grave it is the phone number to ancestry.com Not sure exactly who thought this was cute but this is a automated line to Ancestry
User's recommendation: Don’t contact us number in regards to findagrave.com.
ID
Location
Virginia Beach, Virginia
New Reviewer
Access bio on ancestor
I have tried to talk to someone about how to access the bio about my ancestor George Washington Taylor that says on his find a grave page exists. I have not had the issue resolved and am very frustrated. I have been doing family research for approx nine years and have always found find a grave to have info that I needed, so this is very disappointing to me. If you can help, that would be great!
ID
Pros
- Excellent research tool
Cons
- No links to access bio
Preferred solution
Let the company propose a solution
Two years latet
After two years I finally got find aastaastzs grave to remove my immediate family from their data base. Hosanna.Find a grave is a nightmare. They take photos of deceased family members. Then their experts construct a poor family tree with all sorts of errors and paster the info all over the net. Find a grave sucks bigtime.
ID
Location
Hilliard, Ohio
New Reviewer
An upsetting shakedown scheme
They have listed my uncle's burial place in the wrong cemetery. This would be upsetting enough but to add insult to injury, to even bring this to their attention I would have to pay a membership fee. This is a shakedown.
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ID
Product
Find A Grave Website
Pros
- Ability to search for a gravesite
Cons
- Anyone can post untrue information
- Incorrect info and unprofesstional
- Inability to file complaints with company
Preferred solution
fix the error
Sucks
FindAGrave sucks. You go there to create a memorial for a deceased relative or friend only to have your labours gobbled up by FindAGrave's top contributions cyber ghouls Stay away
User's recommendation: FindaGrave sucks.
ID
Location
Hilliard, Ohio
New Reviewer
Loss of all the graves and cemeteries that I had and now cannot be found.
I have been a member of findagrave.com for years before ancestry.com took it over. I forgot my password and my email was no longer useful.,I started a new page with my main info. I was able to at least see the cemeteries that I search for but, today I can't find anything. The search for my family's graves are saying not found. Ancestry.com is a greedy Company and a waste of time.
User's recommendation: Don't use this sight.
ID
Cons
- Unresponsive administrators
- Needs a better way to contact when there are errors
Preferred solution
I would like for findagrave would actually find the graves being searched and still have access to my family graves.
This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ
Verified Reviewer New ReviewerInvitation
Contributors act like they are doing the institutions a favour. Were all adults here and clearly aint nobody got time for catering their every whim.
User's recommendation: Be a decent delegator and ‘Get–R–Done!’.
ID
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Service
Find A Grave Genealogy Record
Pros
- Helping future generation relatives find pertinent
- Finding relatives
Cons
- Old website
- Incorrect info and unprofesstional
- Maintenance of memorials
Loss
$25000
Preferred solution
Removing Patricia Presson Carlson as a contributor and ban future accounts from her.
New Reviewer
Find a grave sucks
Original review updated by user Mar 13, 2022
I have been banned from Find A Grave for provoking a fight with one of their top contributors who took over the memorials I made for my parents and infant son. The woman refused to turn the memorials back over to me. Furthermore what started out as a memorial turned into a genealogical junkyard after this top contributor got done with it. Most of the research was inaccurate adding 1st cousins with the same name and roughly the same age. Secondly I do not like the idea of strangers poking around in my family tree - especially if the information is wrong. Find a grave support is useless. They take the side of the contributor and I am the one who gets banned for confronting this person. User's recommendation: Stay away from the site. It will only cause you grief.
ID
Product
Find A Grave Website
Cons
- Dealing with top contributors who added inaccurate info
- Dealing with horders
Loss
$25
Preferred solution
Memorials I made removed from Find A Grave's data base.
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Verified Reviewer New ReviewerScam: Misleading Info & Invasion of privacy.
FindAGrave lures unsuspecting people to the site who have just lost a loved one. FindAGrave entices these individuals to create a "free" online virtual memorial. Once the memorial is created the individuals who created it are banned. Next FindAGrave has one of their major contributors man the Memorial. They in turn copy all personal data, catalogue it, then send it off to their Salt Lake City Headquarters to be used in conjunction with some of their other endeavors - most likely marketing i.e. robo calls in addition misleading sales literature.
User's recommendation: Avoid this site. It will only cause you grief. If you need more proof do a google search FindAGrave complaints.
1 comment
ID
Pros
- Finding information in cemeteries
Cons
- Incorrect info and unprofesstional
- Failing to allow close family data being entered into memorials
- No communication
Preferred solution
Megan Heyl/FindAGrave to delete all family info including photos from their data base.
Family concerns
I am Joseph Kelly's sister. I am trying to post a memory. But unable to. Please contact me. Why am I unable to post anything?
ID
Location
Toms River, New Jersey
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Verified Reviewer New ReviewerCOMPLAINT
My friend Sylvia M.Sharpe 1945-**** was buried in Santa Monica.Someone went to the cemetery,took a picture of the gravesite and posted it online.Who gave permission?I find that is an invasion of privacy and lack of respect for the dead.I confronted the woman who posted it on the phone and she hang up on me.Very suspicious.Is that not illegal?
1 comment
ID
Location
La Puente, California
Preferred solution
Apology
New Reviewer
Terrible SIte
Can't sign in or even get to the screen to log in at all. The site apparently has been revamped. I would give 0 stars if I could. So much information to add to my ancestor's information and can't even access the site. Don't Do
User's recommendation: Don't recommend.
ID
Product
Find A Grave Website
Preferred solution
Let the company propose a solution
Deleting messages
This site has removed me over things that I didn't post. An angry exrelative of my deceased friend has been doing all of this.
User's recommendation: Beware, even non family members can have you removed.
ID
Location
Fairborn, Ohio
New Reviewer
What is wrong with your site
Your website is not working it does not post graves I know are on here so what is wrong with your site
1 comment
ID
Location
Fort Worth, Texas
Preferred solution
Answer the question
New Reviewer
What is wrong with your site
I type the name on the grave stone and it says it can't find it but it was on family tree your website won't find graves I know should be on here
ID
Location
Fort Worth, Texas
Preferred solution
Answer to my question
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