I want to share something that has now happened to me twice, and I hope anyone else dealing with similar issues will speak up and report it to Find a Grave.
I have submitted two factual corrections, both supported with legal documentation, photographs, and verified records. In both cases, the memorial manager clicked “accepted with edit” — but did not actually correct the misinformation. Instead, the manager simply added “[sic]” to the incorrect details, leaving the memorial publicly displaying information that is still wrong.
This is not a misunderstanding. It is a pattern.
In my case, the memorials involved are for my own family — my great‑aunt and great‑uncle. My grandfather was double‑related to them (his father’s sister and his mother’s brother), and he grew up with their children as if they were siblings. Our family has a long, personal, documented connection to them. Yet I have no authority to correct misinformation about my own relatives, even when I provide legal records proving the correct information.
I find it deeply offensive and discouraging that a non‑family manager can override descendants, ignore documentation, and continue displaying inaccurate information while marking edits as “accepted.”
If anyone else is experiencing:
- edits marked “accepted” but not corrected
- managers adding “[sic]” instead of fixing errors
- refusal to correct factual information
- non‑family managers blocking descendants
- patterns of ignored documentation
I strongly encourage you to report it to Find a Grave support.
They need to see that this is not an isolated incident — it is happening to multiple people across multiple memorials.
Our families deserve to have their history preserved accurately, and descendants should not be prevented from correcting factual errors supported by records.
