Find a Grave Arvostelua 

Bullies on the site. Seriously bad ones. I was threatened daily until I finally disconnected my account. Turned it in to the site managers and never heard back. As soon as I disconnected they told me they couldn't do anything since I disconnected from them. What a waste of time. I agree with all the other reviews about people wanting to have as many as they can have. And they do NOT give you your relative like their policy says. Lazy customer service, which is no service at all. Not sure what this site if for, maybe just to have a photo of the gravesite, but certainly nothing more. They had wrong info on my immediate family and one guy told me if I wanted it changed I needed to send him all the records and certificates (death, birth etc.). That's not up to them. Frustration abound.

They allowed me to correct my grandmother’s dates of birth and death (given incorrectly by a 3rd or 4th cousin) - but now someone called Julia has taken over my account (no relation) and I cannot sign in to make further corrections, recently discovered. So Julia is now responsible for altering history.

Find a Grave is a joke. I made pages for my nephews adopted family. A man listed the cemeteries before I did and they gave him my pages. I thought you were entitled to the pages of family members? Now some egotistical old man who didn’t even care that was my extended family has them? Unbelievable.

the Find a grave is a must if you are doing Ancestry searches . you just have to know how to use it correctly and some of the information you have to provide yourself , and one of the really good things i like about it is the Volunteers all over the world who will happily take a photo on request . you have to remember that most of the Memorials are put on by the Users so you have to search a bit and hopefully someone can help , and you can also contact there support staff who are always very helpful

The site is a scam. Their software will not find any of my six relatives graves at the Seaview Cemetary in Rockland Maine. It also sells my information and the opt-out link is not recognized

If you are doing geneology then this is a must use site along with the ryserson index in Australia.

The sort of people complaining seem to be similar to the ones that think they own the road outside their place and no one else should park there.

Quality varies as per any site that relies on volunteers (who don't suddenly become Einsteins).

I have had the worst experience with Find A Grave, There's a contributor who spends 24/7 collecting obituaries the Second it gets posted and doesn't allow anyone else to grab, This contributor does NOT go to cemeteries and volunteers what so ever, He has more memorials than photographs, When I left the site, I specifically asked find a grave to send them to a few of my Find A Grave friends to which by the way, 100% failed to do so, and that one contributor I did NOT want to get any of my memorials grabbed like 90% of em!! and changed what I had done. One thing that drove me crazy is that this person removes the period by the middle initial which I dont have a clue why, Its not his to start with. Admins cherish this person since He has broken all the rules in the Find A Grave thing, Create duplicates, sending nasty emails to others, etc. and I got yelled at by the admins for duplicates. Like I don't think so. This person did his damnest to get rid of me, well he has succeeded. I got tired of this same thing over and over again. For someone who managed nearly 200k memorials and photos which btw most of them were copyright from other peoples work is less than 20k, what does that say? I had more photos than memorials which means I was a true volunteer, I dont sit around all day and all night collecting memorials so no one gets them and get mad everytime someone asks for a transfer cause your losing 1 memorial.. oh boo hoo...

I agreed to take photos. A couple of days later I asked advice and assistance via a web chat. I agreed to pay $2 for a phone call from an"expert". I felt this a bit off. While processing the "$2" payment via Paypal I saw that Patpal was going to transfer $74.

ZERO Stars. Find a Grave is a poorly-managed, user unfriendly site purportedly providing individuals with information about the final resting place of loved-ones and friends. THEY ARE NOT. Find A Grave is one of the private information-gathering arms of a cult which places great significance on family history to support their spurious doctrine of being baptized for the dead. That being said, you will find that about 75% of the people reviewing Find A Grave give it one star (or less). EVERYTHING they do is biased toward their own organization. They "allow" people to give them free research and post it to their site as if it were true. God forbid it if you should ever have to correct information submitted by a member who has been on the site for 14 years and contributed 23,000 memorials. THEY ARE GODS -- you don't dare correct them (even if it was wrong information they "memorialized" about your own parents!!!). I just want to save people the hearthache of going on ANY family history website with the false hope of getting help from them. All you will do is give free information for them to make money off of, and end up with a bunch of someone else's poorly-researched, hastily-posted information about your loved-ones and friends. Don't CONTRIBUTE a single thing -- and don't believe the garbage they churn out as they laugh all the way to the bank at your expense.

Zero stars. Some people complain about "grave harvesting" folk who get a kick out of "owning" other people's memorials which they have no connection with. And that's one problem. But THEN when a family member comes along with useful information and tries to take over the management of a family member's memorial they are refused! The robotic people who run this site have no genuine interest they are just in it for the money. Avoid this site!

Auf der Suche nach einem Bekannten bin ich auf "finde ein Grab" aufmerksam geworden. Anfangs war ich von der Idee begeistert. Nach umfangreicher Recherche komme ich leider zu dem Schluss, das es sich NUR um eine "Geldgier-Seite" handelt, die - wie viele böse Webseiten - im angelsächsischen Raum ansässig ist. Hochintelligent und mit sehr viel Geld aufgezogen. Bei meinem letzten Besuch wurde ich innerhalb weniger Minuten mit mehr als 30 Werbespots/Tracking "zugemüllt". Mein Fazit: Es bestätigt mir, dass es viel zu viele Idi....... gibt. KB

Is this some joke of a website? Total strangers trawling through cemetery records then adding them as their personal memorial records. Families should own their own family members memorial records and no one else. Surely there are copyright issues that should be applied and this site taken down immediately. My Father paid for a new headstone for my Great Grandparents and we took a photo of it and uploaded it to a newly created memorial. Someone then sends me a message saying it is a duplicate and could I remove it and now using my photo on their memorial record. How can anyone accumulate nearly two million headstones and claim that they now’own’ these graves. It is totally sickening and lacks any dignity or integrity whatsoever. The owners of this site should be prosecuted and have this site removed and banned from operating in this way

You don’t allow other people to manage other family’s graves ! And then there is disrespectful people who think they own my families graves ! Disgusting policy from an awful company !

They are theives. They stole 2 memorials from me and refused to give me credit. I am sick of it and so done giving second chances. Burn for it find a grave. Karma is real and may you feel the heat hard.

I been on Findagrave for over 11 years and it seems to be getting worse than better. Customer support is terrible. They delete memorials without letting the creator know. They have no way of blocking unwanted members from contacting you.. you got to accept all or none. So I finally decided none is the best option.

Also the number of adverts is sometimes ridiculous. And they just increased the cost of sponsoring memorials from 5$ to 10$ and the new format is also terrible.. So I will not be sponsoring anymore memorials there. Or adding many more memorials there..

I have started to delete most of my memorials that were there. I will only keep the few that I sponsor. The ones I have a particular interest in I will move to my own websites. I do not feel like letting Findagrave make money off my research while they provide an unresponsive and toxic environment to persist.

Nightmare for relatives doing genealogy research. Memorial managers are very possessive about the memorials they manage. They completely disregard any sources you provide by not even reading them. They think they’re Gods. They remind me of the elder government officials running our country who desperately cling to power and refuse to allow younger generations who actually use technology to make sources-based contributions. Some managers never bother to reply to messages at all. One manager posted an unmarked newspaper clipping (no source) stating that a relative died in Alabama when he never lived there. In his bio she wrote he died in London and in an email to me she wrote that she believed he died in Canada. I believe this woman is incapable of managing her own memorial, much less the memorial of my 3x great grandfather. Would I recommend findagrave? No. Will I opt out? Yes. Been using site for six months and had nothing but problems with greedy, self-righteous Memorial managers.

They no longer have reviews for the cemetery. My mom and brother are in, it no longer recognizes the name of Greenhill cemetery in San Pedro or Palo Verdes. Also, if you stay on the site long enough, it will tell you that it is scanning your hard drive and it will tell you that your Norton is no longer working, so I don’t have Norton

LESS than ONE STAR!
I have requested to manage one of my great aunt's children's memorial. (She is my first cousin once removed) I have done extensive time-consuming research and posted beautiful pictures of her as a younger person that I acquired from family onto her Memorial. She in my family tree which Find A Grave asks us now if we are related If we are family why does FInd A Grave want to know? ... I have been turned down, and must work with a person that is currently managing my ancestor’s memorial page that won’t communicate with me. I pray, he will allow me to manage her page b/c I’m tired of begging Find A Grave employees. I have been told, by a Find A Grave employee (that I have to wait 21 days to have the edits approved by a senior employee at Find a Grave) b/c he ( the current manager) won’t do them and is not related to anyone in my family tree... If being a relative isn't that important, why are they asking? Thx J.

There is no accountability to the volunteers that are disrespectful to family members trying to get transfers. There needs to be away to look these graves after transfers to family members, exspically when dealing with volunteers who are just in it for the number listing.

The one that holds the majority of my family and is not related to my family. He grabbed them back in 2012 did very few things, other volunteers added information. He put my grandmothers birth certificate at the time I asked for her transfer.

This is a response I received from him about a transfer of my 2nd great grandfather.

"Since you very recently burst upon the scene, you immediately became a grabber, a collector.
This site is not a candy wagon spewing out candy to see how much candy a kid can stuff in their candy bag.
Memorials are not to be viewed as property, as something to OWN.
A huge number of contributors have spent an enormous amount of hours making this site the valuable resource that it is. You have not shown any inclination to add new memorials, but just to request transfers of already existing ones."

I didn’t know about the 2great grandparent transfer rules, (the one that held his wife in another city transferred without hesitation).
All the other transfers were within that rules.
I asked for my aunt but before transferring her. He went through every one of my family members and started putting marriage licenses and other items, and requested a load of corrections to them. There are other family members that fall within that rule, when I ask for transfers what is he going to add to them before transfering.

The generation things needs to change, most of the 2nd generation in the USA is from immigrants that came to this country in the 1800s. These families should be able to put information in that we know is correct, and be able to tell their story. These graves are peoples ancestors and should never be allowed to be held by non family members.

Personally I’m not jumping on the bandwagon and grabbing people I don’t know, and telling their family history, that is for each family to do themselves.

Maybe find a grave should get rid of totals of what volunteers have contributed, so it’s not a completion to see how many they can grab, how many contributions they made, how many they mange, and how many hold.
They would definitely weed out the bad volunteers.

Because when it comes down to it these graves each have a history, and should never be used as a game.

Utterly useless customer support and resolving IT issues despite multiple emails.

As has been pointed out in other reviews "grave collectors" have been allowed to take over the site with no real regard to those who actually knew the person or the accuracy of the information.

Each grave represents a REAL PERSON and not just data that is used by ancestry.com to make money.