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I manage just a handful of close kin, parents, deceased brother, grandparents and great grandparents. I do so to honor them. I attached an old photo from 1960's on my brother's memorial. I had edited the photo so none of my living siblings were in the photo. Next thing I knew it had been removed and I had been blocked from adding any pictures to my mom, dad or brother's memorial. I had no clue why they did this ... nor did they bother emailing me they had done so. I emailed them to inquire about this situation. After several days they finally replied. They said someone complained and were claiming they had copyright rights to the picture. Evidently Find a Grave folks do not know or understand copyrights. ANY photo that was taken before Jan. 1, 1978 can not, does not, have copyright capability. I told this and also told them I had a copy of the picture as do several of my siblings. None of us can claim copyrights or ownership. After much thought, I've concluded the sister with mental issues must be the person who told Find a Grave she owned the picture. I seem to live rent free in her head.:) Find a Grave needs to get a clue and learn no one can claim copyrights to pictures prior to 1/1/1978 and they should research any complaint they get to see if the person, like my sister, is nothing more than a busy body that has nothing better to do with their life than to cause problems. I did get them to unblock me from adding pictures, but they still do not want me to post the old picture which makes no sense as they have zero grounds to stand on.
Its seems generally unknown that Find-a-Grave is owned by Ancestry.com. Because the entities are related, for some Find-a-Grave contributors, this may present an unwelcome open copywrite situation. Any info or photos one posts at Fine-a-Grave can (legally) be plagiarized by an Ancestry Member allowing them to creat a Family Tree of the Find-a-Grave's family. Based on personal experience at Ancestry.com, there seems to be a competion amoung some Ancestry members to create the most number of Family Trees. So they go over to Find-a-Grave and plagiarise information and photos. This may be annouying but just another sign that posting hard-won personal data and precious photos on the internet opens up the front door to most everyone. My advise: Watermark photos posted at Find-a-Grave and minimize information posted. If one wishes, use Ancestry.com only for research and/or join Free WikiTree (yes Free) and create your profiles, biographies and classify them as "Private" i.e. unseeable by public until the subject is more than 100 years old etc.
I manage just a handful of close kin, parents, deceased brother, grandparents and great grandparents. I do so to honor them. I attached an old photo from 1960's on my brother's memorial. I had edited the photo so none of my living siblings were in the photo. Next thing I knew it had been removed and I had been blocked from adding any pictures to my mom, dad or brother's memorial. I had no clue why they did this ... nor did they bother emailing me they had done so. I emailed them to inquire about this situation. After several days they finally replied. They said someone complained and were claiming they had copyright rights to the picture. Evidently Find a Grave folks do not know or understand copyrights. ANY photo that was taken before Jan. 1, 1978 can not, does not, have copyright capability. I told this and also told them I had a copy of the picture as do several of my siblings. None of us can claim copyrights or ownership. After much thought, I've concluded the sister with mental issues must be the person who told Find a Grave she owned the picture. I seem to live rent free in her head.:) Find a Grave needs to get a clue and learn no one can claim copyrights to pictures prior to 1/1/1978 and they should research any complaint they get to see if the person, like my sister, is nothing more than a busy body that has nothing better to do with their life than to cause problems. I did get them to unblock me from adding pictures, but they still do not want me to post the old picture which makes no sense as they have zero grounds to stand on.
Awful. They withhold information for 3 months, if you're looking for someone, even a family member, you will not get any grave info for 3 months. Contact them...they don't care. Plus it's controlled by the major contributors, you can't even manage your OWN FAMILY memorials.
Initially found it helpful but I now have members from other branches of the family asking to take over the memorials I put hard work and time into filling out. It's become a competition obviously as this person is supposedly managing almost 4,000 memorials now. Put your egos aside and do not forget,this is about rememberance,not self grandiose.
Findagrave.com is a joke and it's honestly more about who has the most and controls the most memorials. There are people who have over 13,000 memorials and yet we are told they are allowed to have them because they manage them. I have had to ask them several times to remove my great-grandparents, my grandparents, and my father yet they refuse because they think that somehow some random stranger is going to know him as family more than I do. They allow members to violate copyright laws and use copyrighted material without any consequences. I sent them proof 3 times that I had politely asked a person by the name of Herr Strauss to remove them and he has still not responded. I will just file a complaint against findagrave.com for violating my copyrighted material.
I was looking for a friend and her name, info, photograph and the cemetery where she was buried came up. I was so sad my friend had died... until six months later I received a call from her and found out she is still alive. Findagrave.com is totally unreliable. Avoid this site at all costs.
Just looking up immediate family obituaries and this website pops up. Not long after I see that and estranged member of family has control over memorials of people that she had mistreated when they were alive..it makes me very sad and sad to see the falsehoods she has posted. Website was no help to get resolved
Signing in and registering is a nightmare. Half the time it doesn't register things properly. I had to register 4 times, all because I was trying to send flowers to a single grave. The first time I used a Firefox relay email and it said there was something wrong with the email. I didn't blame them for that, but when I used my real email it did the same thing. I had to re-register the second time because it didn't realize the captcha had been completed. Then, even though I activated my account through the email, it didn't register that I did that either and I had to have the activation email sent again. And then after all that, it still wouldn't let me sign in because "Something's wrong with your email/password" ?????Why do you even need to sign in to do something as simple as send a digital flower?
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