Jim Tipton enjoyed walks through cemeteries and enjoyed reading the various headstones, especially celebrity gravestones. He began his own webpage to keep track of this hobby in 1995.
Find a Grave was launched as a commercial site in 1998, then incorporated in 2000.
In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry.com, stating the genealogy company had “been linking and driving traffic to the site for several years.
As of May 2020, Find a Grave contained over 180 million burial records and 80 million photos.
The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, with both celebrities and regular people.
Though it does not ask permission from immediate family members before uploading the photos, it will remove and take down photos or a URL for a deceased loved one at the request of an immediate family member.
Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their “claim to fame”, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, and educators. Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these types of listings.
During the Covid lockdowns, many people found the webpage both interesting and helpful.
Find a Grave maintains a corporate office in Lehi, Utah.
Jim Tipton enjoyed walks through cemeteries and enjoyed reading the various headstones, especially celebrity gravestones. He began his own webpage to keep track of this hobby in 1995.
Find a Grave was launched as a commercial site in 1998, then incorporated in 2000.
In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry.com, stating the genealogy company had “been linking and driving traffic to the site for several years.
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As of May 2020, Find a Grave contained over 180 million burial records and 80 million photos.
The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, with both celebrities and regular people.
Though it does not ask permission from immediate family members before uploading the photos, it will remove and take down photos or a URL for a deceased loved one at the request of an immediate family member.
Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their “claim to fame”, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, and educators. Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these types of listings.
During the Covid lockdowns, many people found the webpage both interesting and helpful.
Find a Grave maintains a corporate office in Lehi, Utah.
I have an aunt that passed away in January of this year. I found her obituary and tried to find her on Find-A-Grave but could not. She has other family relatives that she needs to be connected with to complete their information. I think she may have been cremated since the obituary did not mention a cemetery. Is it possible to get her put into the Find-A-Grave files if she has been cremated? If so how does one go about this since we can’t identify a specific cemetery?
Thank you for your wonderful service.
Dear Sirs;
I have located an ancestral gravesite (Colonel William Leander Graham, CSA – my great, great grandfather on my mother’s side) in a small, private family cemetery in Tazwell County, Virginia. I have gone to your website to upload pictures, a write up on Colonel Graham. and record the geographic coordinates. When I try to upload any information for Colonel Graham I hit a brick wall as the website will not allow me…there is no cemetery name to select which will enable me to complete this upload.
How do I circumvent this problem…Thanks in advance for your help. r/Andrew T. Hammond, Captain, US Navy (retired)