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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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#368241 Review #368241 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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San Antonio, Texas
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Find A Grave Website
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I sent 3 notes on the contact page and nobody responds

I have been trying to contact Find A Grave to no avail!!! Ive sent numerous notes and communications and I get NO RESPONSE
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Transfer of memorial

I recently learned my nephew, Jay Frank Waldron, passed away and was buried at a later time. The memorial created for him has the number 23325****. The memorial was not entered into a cemetery; and left at "cremated". The memorial was done by SJB (#4779****). I was...
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#3905182 Review #3905182 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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Corinth, New York
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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.

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Virginia Beach, Virginia

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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!
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#3742625 Review #3742625 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Pros
  • Excellent research tool
Cons
  • No links to access bio
Preferred solution
Let the company propose a solution

Two years latet

1.1
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.
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#3562717 Review #3562717 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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Hilliard, Ohio
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An upsetting shakedown scheme

1.0
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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You're not on Find A Grave because it is 100% free.

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#3481706 Review #3481706 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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Find A Grave Website
Pros
  • Ability to search for a gravesite
Cons
  • Incorrect info and unprofesstional
  • Inability to file complaints with company
  • Anyone can post untrue information
Preferred solution
fix the error

Sucks

1.0
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.

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#3466449 Review #3466449 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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Hilliard, Ohio
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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.

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#3455078 Review #3455078 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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  • Needs a better way to contact when there are errors
  • Unresponsive administrators
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I would like for findagrave would actually find the graves being searched and still have access to my family graves.

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Invitation

3.4
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!’.

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#3448300 Review #3448300 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Service
Find A Grave Genealogy Record
Pros
  • Finding relatives
  • Helping future generation relatives find pertinent
Cons
  • Old website
  • Maintenance of memorials
  • Incorrect info and unprofesstional
Loss
$25000
Preferred solution
Removing Patricia Presson Carlson as a contributor and ban future accounts from her.
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Find a grave sucks

1.0
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.

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#3402708 Review #3402708 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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Find A Grave Website
Cons
  • Dealing with horders
  • Dealing with top contributors who added inaccurate info
Loss
$25
Preferred solution
Memorials I made removed from Find A Grave's data base.

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Scam: Misleading Info & Invasion of privacy.

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Find A Grave - Scam: Misleading Info & Invasion of privacy.
Find A Grave - Scam: 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.

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How does Find A Grave "lure" or "entice" people to create memorials? As to the rest, well, let's just say, it's what comes out of the south end of a bull walking north.

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#3386425 Review #3386425 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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  • Finding information in cemeteries
Cons
  • No communication
  • Failing to allow close family data being entered into memorials
  • Incorrect info and unprofesstional
Preferred solution
Megan Heyl/FindAGrave to delete all family info including photos from their data base.

Family concerns

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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?
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Toms River, New Jersey

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COMPLAINT

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?
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No one needed permission to photograph the grave or to post said photo online. There cannot be an expectation of privacy for something that is in public view.

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#3359193 Review #3359193 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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La Puente, California
Preferred solution
Apology
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Terrible SIte

1.0
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.

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Find A Grave Website
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Deleting messages

1.0
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.

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Fairborn, Ohio

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