Find A Grave Reviews

(based on 60 reviews)

114 of 220 people found this review helpful

I didn't know about Find a Grave until someone told me that my son's grave had been posted on it. Later, I found my mom and dad's grave too. I forced (in one case) the contributors to turn them over to me to protect the information, I had asked that info be removed from my dad's site and they refused. NO ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO POST GRAVES OF NON FAMILY MEMBERS WITHOUT THE FAMILY'S PERMISSION. I have had to sponsor those memorials to get a modicum of control and it is my view that if I have paid to do that, I should have complete control over the sites, including being able to delete posts made.

Find A Grave should be out of business.

In summary, I would not recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

103 of 182 people found this review helpful

I use Find a Grave often as a source of information on individual people in my family tree. I still need to check that the details agree with my own research. The strength is that the individual memorial is based on a recorded burial or a gravestone in an actual cemetery, often someplace far away that I could never visit myself.

Find a Grave uses the power of the Commons - thousands and thousands of volunteers around the world, each with their particular skill or interest, to find and make a memorial based on a cemetery burial record or an actual gravestone. And my access to all this data if freely available for me to search for online.

I have found burials and records of my family members in far away places I would never know about otherwise. A memorial may provide details of my person's death or burial date, an age, perhaps a photo of the gravestone with a readable inscription with birth date and place, spouse name, children's names. How wonderful is that! Knowing the cemetery, I can now search for family names and find other family members buried there.

Often, I end up in contact with the person who... (Read the full review)

In summary, I would recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

124 of 256 people found this review helpful

I do use the site frequently and have found it somewhat useful but riddled with errors. That being said, I became a member in an effort to submit edits. Big mistake! I have wasted my time finding & researching numerous historic documents; taking notes of all pertinent info -- document titles, date, location & persons involved, etc.; transcribed those notes into a "suggested edits" request, to then receive a response of "declined". Requesting "help"/support from Admin is a complete waste of time. They allow "Memorial Mgrs" to "own" the Memorials they manage.
In one month alone, I submitted well over 160 "suggested edits" (all well-researched & well-documented). Dozens of Memorial Managers accepted and made the edits, with the exception of just one! Request to Admin for help/assistance (getting that one Memorial Mgr to do her job) proved to be useless with a response of, "...we respect the decision of our Memorial Mgrs...". Further request to Admin, pointing out FACTS & documented PROOF the edits were warranted/justified were met with the same response. Pointing out how one Memorial can affect numerous others through the spouse/parent links (indirectly affecting siblings, nieces/nephews, aunts/uncles/cousins, grandparents, etc.) was... (Read the full review)

In summary, I would recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

128 of 221 people found this review helpful

I have been on Findagrave for over 11 years. But I finally getting tired of it. They have terrible customer support. The adverts on the pages sometimes get to be too much. They delete memorials without notifying the creator. They have no way of blocking rude members from contacting you.. you either accept message from everyone or no one.. what a mickey mouse system.

I started to delete all the memorials/photos I added (I only managed abt 950 memorials). I will keep the ones I sponsor there... but I will also be moving those to my own website along with any others I find of interest. I am not going to let Findagrave make money off of my research when they do nothing to make the site a safe, comfortable and supportive environment... bye bye Findagrave..

In summary, I would not recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

112 of 197 people found this review helpful

Something needs to be done about this one person on FINDAGRAVE who hoards millions of memorials and has created thousands of fake profiles with fake bios,male and female. This person even creates fake Facebook accounts to appear legit for their findagrave accounts. I've traced this person's fake Facebook profiles for years and fake findagrave accounts. This person even stalked me on ancestry with my DNA results and attached theirselves to my ancestry trees. I removed them and blocked them. They've been on FINDAGRAVE for at least 20 years creating fake accounts and claims to be a distinguished doctor on some of their profiles. I investigated this person's findagrave profiles and Facebook accounts and they are totally fabricated,false. This person also steals deceased people's identities to create profiles and claims to be related in order to decide people into transferring memorials to them. This person sends very mean and nasty messages to many of us contributors on FINDAGRAVE and on our Facebook accounts through messenger. This person has stalked hundreds of people on FINDAGRAVE, FACEBOOK, and on ANCESTRY.COM. This memorial hoarder controls millions of memorials on thousands of fake profiles. This person refuses correct links to family memorials, refuses edits,... (Read the full review)

In summary, I would recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

261 of 592 people found this review helpful

All these posts from Findagrave contributors going on about how hard they work harvesting graves makes my French butt tired. These people live on Findagrave because they r addicted. There is also a certain sense of satisfaction sticking their noses in other peoples business. What they really need is professional help and a long vacation from Findagrave.

In summary, I would not recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

284 of 620 people found this review helpful

Findagrave is a total.waste. It is comprised of bored housewives with nothing better to do than being graveyard ghouls. Whoever collects the most graves in a given month gets a coupon for 20% off at Walmart..Findagrave top.contributors have no sensitivity for the deceased's family. They just cut a smelly
fart and move on in if their presence is wanted or not.

In summary, I would not recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

301 of 545 people found this review helpful

I enjoy searching cemeteries and adding memorial and pictures to the easy format of Find a Grave.
I am not a numbers member, but it annoys me when members do no research but expect transfers only to use the memorial as their family tree data screen or to increase their numbers.

Politely ask for a transfer, tell me how you are related.

I removed my email address from my profile because of the rude members out there, usually the members with little to know memorials added. When did we stop being polite and only commenting crap. Use the contact manager button or note button under edit screen vs using email, at least there is a record of the rudeness.

Members who think sending edits for birth dates etc with no supporting link is acceptable. "Ya ok, let me get the white out"

I am a member who enjoys the peace of a cemetery, I do not enjoy members who find it necessary to be rude, because I want supporting link to amend a date or parent/child.

I do not want to add useless info, like years of census records under the bio.
The one item that should be added to Find a Grave, automatic that... (Read the full review)

In summary, I would recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

316 of 540 people found this review helpful

T's a great resource for discovering and cataloguing real, existing graves. But Findagrave has zero mechanisms for ensuring the accuracy of entered information. Any user can add memorials for anyone. You can add memorials for Goku, Luke Skywalker, and Harry Potter if you want. So people go on there and create error-riddled family trees, including many with entirely fictitious "ancestors" (like this one) that have zero burial information and no one can stop them.

Findagrave's chief vice is laziness--they don't want to bother with conflict mediation and have made the absurd assumption that genealogists are all reasonable and have valid reasons for believing what they believe. But in the last 20 years of doing this, I've found that many southern colonial genealogies found online are absurdly wrong, confusing multiple unrelated lines, badly supported (if at all) and that many genealogists are so lazy they'd rather copy and paste someone else's work than do even a modicum of fact checking. You can throw as much evidence as you want at many Findagrave members, but everyone is subject to cognitive biases--in genealogy I find anchoring bias and herd mentality to be extremely common. Even if you are nice and reasonable, the memorial manager... (Read the full review)

In summary, I would not recommend Find A Grave to a friend.

286 of 511 people found this review helpful

Several of my memorials got transferred to #8 by mistake and then it got transferred to contributors who only interested in numbers. Find a grave administration say they would help, But Caleb asked about my parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, which I think it is a invasion of privacy and refuses to transfer my memorials back to me. They can see I created the memorials but refuses to transfer the memorials back to me.

In summary, I would not recommend Find A Grave to a friend.