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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

Two years latet

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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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An upsetting shakedown scheme

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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
  • Anyone can post untrue information
  • Inability to file complaints with company
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.
Cons
  • Unresponsive administrators
  • Needs a better way to contact when there are errors
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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

3.3
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
  • Helping future generation relatives find pertinent
  • Finding relatives
Cons
  • Incorrect info and unprofesstional
  • Old website
  • Maintenance of memorials
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

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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.
Product
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.
Pros
  • Finding information in cemeteries
Cons
  • Incorrect info and unprofesstional
  • No communication
  • Failing to allow close family data being entered into memorials
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
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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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Let the company propose a solution

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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#3110932 Review #3110932 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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Fairborn, Ohio
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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
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The site doesn't post graves. The members of the site create memorials.

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#3069122 Review #3069122 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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Fort Worth, Texas
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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
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Fort Worth, Texas
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Answer to my question

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Terrible online community. Terrible admin.

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Was a member for over 10 years. Has contributed more than 6000 memorials. At first I felt good about what I was doing but after a few nasty messages I gave up and quit contributing. A couple years later I decided to try it again. I enjoyed what I was doing and felt like I was helping people (for awhile). Then I discovered how nasty many of the other members are. And how worthless the administration is. If you want to be belittled. Told off. Argued with. Reported for any slight other members feel you committed (you'll then receive an email from admin telling you you've been reported, which means you are automatically guilty, and other penalties may occur). This site is nothing but a haven for cyber bullies.

User's recommendation: Don't do it.

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My mom has done Find A Grave since inception traveling around our county taking pictures and posting. She received a book from a family asking her to post their info.

She also takes requests to go find graves. She passes on admin rights to any one who asks.

She has been bullied on Find A Grave for over a year now. A person with 4 identities somehow knows every time she makes an entry and then duplicates her entry and asks for a merge and reports.

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6000 memorials is excessive. Nobody creates that much volume and has any feeling for what they do.

FindAGrave encourages such compulsive behavior. If u cannot break free u need help.

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#3014499 Review #3014499 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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  • Nice site
Cons
  • Poor staff

GPS inside graveyard directions are incorrect

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Set GPS at grave. Walk away from that grave. I want to find that grave from the GPS I just set from the other side of the cemetery and the directions on how to find that grave again using the GPS I set doesnt take me back to that grave. It is way off the mark.
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