Find a GraveReviews of findagrave.com

Find-a-Grave provides a useful service publishing online photographs of gravestones (the sooner the better before they become badly eroded). This enables people to find gravestones of relatives which must be a good thing. But you do get rogue elements, though mostly if someone wants an edit to their family grave, if that person joins Find-a-Grave they can submit an edit or ask the current owner for a transfer. I personally find it difficult when someone decides to do their own research and then asks me to update a memorial I manage, of someone they are not related to. If I refuse, the request can be resubmitted to a Find-a-Grave adviser who has the final say. These advisers do not always make suitable decisions - for example one user decided to expand a name abbreviation and asked me to change the memorial. I was unhappy to change what was carved on the stone, as he could be wrong. The Find-a-Grave adviser let it through, although I manage the memorial. They also let through a lot of poor research. If someone was buried in a place, it does not mean they were born there for instance! Too much educated guess work goes on. This I find extremely frustrating. Also, I would like to be able to block users who submit too many edits - usually too much educated guess work. There is no facility for this. And while the advisers ask for no more than 2 refused edits per day from a user, they cannot prevent more than 2 to managers.