ANGEL s Oiv
map-marker San Antonio, Texas

FIND A GRAVE AKA FIND A HEARTACHE

After being a member for 6 years, 6 months, 20 days and contributing over 22, 000 memorials, over 67, 000 photos and fulfilling over 7500 photo request. I was targeted by a jealous member that had a friend that is a administrator. I sent the below email to Jim Tipton requesting a refund for the 10 memorials I sponsored. I have NEVER recieved a refund and all of my years of hard work remain on the site for Jim Tipton to profit from. DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THIS WEBSITE THEIR ADMINISTRATORS EVIL & HEARTLESS!

Contributions to

Find A Grave

"ยข 22,140 Memorials Added

"ยข 22,246 Memorials Managed

"ยข 65 Memorials/week

"ยข 67,206 Photos

"ยข 7 Photo Requests

"ยข 7,562 Volunteer Photos Taken

"ยข 20,152 Virtual Flowers

"ยข 58 Virtual Cemeteries

"ยข 1 Fame Rating

"ยข 10 Sponsorships

a Formal Request for a refund of my sponsorships, also delete all of MY photos and memorials. It is wrong to suspend a members account but leave their copyrighted photos, memorials and sponsorships. You are profit-ting from years of gas, time, efforts and photos we have added over the past 6 years and 6 months and 20 days. It is curious that the administrator that suspended our account is the ONLY administrator in the past 2 years to beat us down in favor of her friends, like merging memorials in favor of her friends when they were not duplicates. She also ignored forwarded SAC's from one of her friends that used my mother in laws memorials to threaten and attack us, this same member has threatened us for two years but that is okay because he has a friend that is a administrator. I have saved all the SAC's and emails in regards to all the attacks and threats by this administrators friend. Note that for four years we never had any complaints but the only complaints for the last to years come from only one administrator..

Remember that many memorials are only sponsored after a volunteer has added a photo, but when the contributor of the memorials wants the volunteer photo removed is just a waste of time and gas. You need to change the volunteer photo program to make it for only the person that maintains the memorial can request volunteer photos since they can complain and have the photos removed...how would you feel if you spent an hour and half in the heat searching for a grave only to be beat down by an administrator for not removing the volunteer, because the member that maintains the memorials wants it removed though it was a volunteer photo request, this is a MAJOR flaw in your program not to mention favoritism of certain members who have friends that are administrators.

Please refund my sponsorships and delete all my contributions to find a grave, that includes memorials and copyrighted photos.

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Guest

Wait a minute! I didn't read your entire post b/c you mentioned you asked for a refund for "sponsoring" memorials.

This information that you've been posting is not yours to decide to post and the website doesn't "own" the information so you shouldn't be giving them money for anything.

I think people are right though the site should be sued for fraud but not for the reasons the contributors think. You've all been used.

Death records are not a matter of public record, and it is not mandatory for a public death notice to be published anywhere. And you can't just post the information anywhere you want, and if you are posting memorials for graves that are less than 75 years old than you are most likely giving fraudsters the information they want.

Think about what you use to answer security questions.

This information was not for you or anyone else on that site to decide to take and post anywhere you want. You should all be charged with crimes.

What made you believe this was appropriate.

Guest

Thousands don't have your experience because they FOLLOW the site rules. If you can't follow them, you don't need to be there.

Guest

I know you all feel abused, and you don't deserve to feel this way. I have used Find A Grave and I just wanted to say that I appreciate what you have done.

You all made the site better. You took the time out of your day to do this, and I appreciate it.

Guest

If you created over 20 thousand memorials and they ban you and keep your memorials f.a.g. it jim tipton stands to make 5 dollars per memorial that's 100 thousand for just 20 thousand memorials.

If a member is banned then all the memorials they created should be removed too! that f.a.g. it jim tipton is a thief when he keeps memorials that members that he has banned from the site for whatever reason.

ph.,uck f.a.g. it jim tipton his is a greedy heartless evil Mormon.

Jessie Jtq

You are not the only one to get fooled into spending time and money to go photograph a grave only to have Tipton's volunteer administrators deleting it...Heck Julie Sohlberg even set up new requests to abuse another volunteer sending them back out in to the cemetery to retake my photos she deleted. She then worked with a group of findagrave cyber stalking bullies to reproduce the memorial she deleted.

Guest

Mrs May you did the right thing by removing all of your contributions before you were victimized again by a f.a.g. administrator.

Be happy that jim tipton cannot profit from your time, gas, batteries etc... In my opinion he is a thief! It is disgusting that people like you are victimized by f.a.g. everyday.

I love that you removed everything you added! Now some other poor fool can waste their time and energy and risk being victimized, better them than you!

Guest

I was a member for 2 years. I volunteered 4 times, I spent much of the day searching for 2 graves while doing so I recorded the other graves in the cemetery, (the cemetery was in a rural area, no office) I put the pictures on the website for the requester.

I claimed the requests first. I noticed someone else had added their pictures but I didn't realize until after I fulfilled the requests. Several months later I noticed my 4 volunteer photos added link only had 2 pictures. Someone had the pictures added to the request I fulfilled after spending 2hours searching for the graves removed and the other person who did not claim the request pictures were still there.

I was devasted I contacted info@***e and they told me they had removed them for the person that made the memorial (not the requester). I felt used and frustrated. Needless to say I removed all the memorials I made and all the pictures I added including the 2 other request pictures since they were subject to removal also. I removed over 2 thousand memorials and 3 thousand pictures.

I still have an account but I do not add anything anymore and will never make that mistake again. Whoever heads the site needs to stop victimizing volunteers.

Volunteers are being used. I agree it is more find a heartache, it has for me.

Guest

dear harry kramar you are right these people are like a cult its scary

Guest

I've had a bad experience with F.A.G too after doing a lot of work. They need to get their act together and stop the abuse by their cult members some of whom contribute very little.

I've been warning people as I come across them of the danger. They care more about harassing people and power plays than they do about honoring the dead.

Guest

I am happy I am no longer a member on that site I just think its important to warn others so they do not get scammed in to wasting their time. I am surprised at the level of abuse they have for volunteers based on the fact Tipton pay check depends on it. I promise I am grateful to not be participating on that site, i did not know the kind of bad stuff that was going on while i was on there had i known i would have left.

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ANGEL s Oiv
map-marker San Antonio, Texas

BEWARE DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO FIND A GRAVE

Updated by user Oct 04, 2012

SINCE POSTING THIS COMPLAINT 3 MEMORIALS I CREATED HAVE BEEN SPONSORED BY OTHER MEMBERS, WHICH PROBABLY EXPLAINS WHY THEY HAVE FAILED TO DELETE MY CONTRIBUTIONS. AT LAST COUNT OVER 180 MEMORIALS THAT I CREATED HAVE BEEN SPONSORED NOT INCLUDING THE 10 I FOOLISHLY...

Original review Aug 30, 2012
WARNING DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO FIND A GRAVE, THEY ARE PROFITING FROM YOUR TIME, GAS AND EFFORTS, NOT TO MENTION FROM SPONSORSHIPS. THEY PROFIT FROM THE PICTURES VOLUNTEERS ADD & MEMORIALS.

VOLUNTEERS ARE THE ONES THAT WALK THE CEMETERIES WHILE OTHERS SIT AT THE COMPUTERS AND COMPLAIN ABOUT OTHER MEMBERS TO THEIR FRIENDS AT FIND A GRAVE. SOME ADMINISTRATORS ARE BIASED AND PLAY FAVORTIES WITH THEIR SO CALLED FRIENDS. THEY ALLOW THEIR FRIENDS TO THREATEN AND ATTACK MEMBERS BUT DO NOTHING ABOUT THAT BUT WHEN SOMEONE SPEAKS UP AGAINST THEIR FRIENDS THEY WASTE NO TIME SUSPENDING THEIR ACCOUNT BUT LEAVING THAT MEMBERS YEARS OF CONTRIBUTIONS & SPONSORSHIPS!!! REPORT THEM TO THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU.

I HOPE SOMEONE ELSE WILL TAP INTO THE GRAVE SEARCH PROGRAM AND BUILD A BETTER UNBIASED WEBSITE WITHOUT THE UNSCRUPULOUS ADMINISTRATION.
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Guest

Your title is perfect! It describes f.a.g.

to a T. You should note that jim tipton is a millionaire made so by volunteers and dummies that spend their time taking pictures of other people's loved ones and stealing obituaries and obituary photos and posting them on f.a.g. as theirs. so much for f.a.g.s so called f.a.q.

True! findagrave sux!

Jessie Jtq

The actual members of this site make it look worse than those telling the truth about this site

Guest
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None of your comments are making any sense...The truth about Find A Grave is they profit from the deaths of our loved ones have strangers photograph gravestones that the family paid for and post those photos on the F.A.G. website without permission from the family and for profit for Jim Tipton to make hundreds of thousands of dollars every year from "volunteers".

Shame on F.A.G. & Jim Tipton!

Jessie Jtq
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I know what they do! The people who appear to belong to this website are nut jobs who stalk bully and harass good people off the site.

Then come here and provide evidence that they are bullies and *** while trying to make good people look bad. This site has no ethics, morals, and least of all rules!!! people should stay away from this site it appears dangerous with no rules keeping it harassment free.

I am leaving the site after reading all the vulgar comments posted by ACTIVE MEMBERS. I have a family I will not endanger their well being by participating on this website.

Jessie Jtq
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I will also not risk investing my time and money just to have it land in the garbage or given away.....

Guest

Find A Grave adminstrators & its members are grave vampires! STOP SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF THE SURVIVORS SO JIM TIPTON CAN PROFIT FROM OUR LOVED ONES DEATHS!!!

Guest

The best thing to do is file a complaint with the BBB. It's a simple process and it does affect their rating.

That being said, you need to have your documentation in order prior to filing. But - if they get bad marks they will eventually fall to an "F" rating and begin to lose sponsors. If they lost sponsors/advertisers they will have no choice but to pack it up.

So - what are you waiting for? File the complaint!

Guest

what a pathetic a joke you are! you are one of those people that jump fences to trample on our loved ones final resting place a place you do not belong!

you should be concerned with your own rather than others loved ones. you buzzards standing on our loved ones graves so you can rack up numbers that's all it is to you numbers, these are people we knew and loved.

I am sick you f.a.g. people lurking over our loved ones grave for the sake of a picture you all are nothing more than dirty buzzards.

Guest

All contributions meaning: memorials, cemetery listings, photos should be deleted when a members account has been suspended.

Jim Tipton rather not delete their contributions since that would mean losing thousands of dollars from sponsorships...

To Jim it's all about the money....not family, friends...

Guest

FIND A GRAVE MEMBER LKAT IS NOTHING BUT A FILTHY VULTURE, SHE STANDS ON FRESHLY BURIED VETERANS GRAVES (BURIED THAT DAY) @ FORT SAM HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. I HAVE WITNESSED HER FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS STANDING ON FRESHLY BURIED VETERANS GRAVES & THEIR SPOUSES GRAVES TAKING PICTURES OF THE TEMPORARY MARKERS SO SHE CAN RUN HOME AND CREATE A MEMORIAL. MY GRANDFATHER WAS BURIED THERE 2 YEARS AGO AND I SAW HER BEING A VULTURE AND ASK WHO SHE WAS AND WHAT SHE WAS DOING...TURNS OUT SHE IS A FIND A GRAVE VULTURE!

FEEDING OFF THE DEATHS OF VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILY

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