You're welcome to use my photos for your personal family tree. For any other purpose, personal, or commercial, permission is required. Just ask.

I'm a part-time photo-getter, giving back to the Find a Grave community for what I've received, and hopefully giving back more.

All memorials I manage, I'm related or have some connection. If you'd like a memorial transferred, let's talk. If you're also related to any memorial I manage, let's talk. There's a lot we can learn from each other.

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If you Request Photo for a memorial...
and here's just my quirky opinion if you request a photo and are not the memorial manager... As a photo volunteer, I have questions, suggestions, and other websites and/or resources that I can share with you the photo requester... but if you are not accepting messages via your Find A Grave Profile (i.e., have messages turned off), there is no way I can reach you.
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More about transfers...
This is for those members who have collected thousands and even hundreds of thousands of memorials, and are sticklers for the "FindaGrave Policy on Transfers"... (and don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate and am grateful for volunteers' contributions who visit cemeteries, photograph headstones, and create Find a Grave memorials for UNrelated strangers.)

Here's my email inquiry to Find a Grave, and the response I received regarding the "transfer policy"...

THE CLIFF NOTES = "it's a guideline, not a rule"...
from the email response below...
"Now, these are the transfer GUIDELINES as to when we (Find a Grave) require transfers to be made. HOWEVER, members can choose to transfer memorials outside of these relationship guidelines, but our team will only step into mediate a transfer within these guidelines." (all caps emphasis is mine)

-----Original Message-----
From: Find a Grave Support
To: acarlson
Sent: Mon, Apr 17, 2023 4:48 pm
Subject: Transfer a Memorial practice v. policy

Hello Annette,
Thank you for contacting Find a Grave.
We would be happy to answer your questions regarding transfers.

You are correct in that memorials are transferred for relatives with these close relationships: child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great-niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great-aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would also include adoptive, step and in-law versions of these relationships. If two members are related within these guidelines and both would like to manage the memorial, the member with the closer relationship should be given management.

Now, these are the transfer guidelines as to when we require transfers to be made. However, members can choose to transfer memorials outside of these relationship guidelines, but our team will only step into mediate a transfer within these guidelines.

Hopefully that helps to provide more clarification.

Sincerely,

Amber
Find a Grave Administrator
findagrave.com

--------------- Original Message ---------------
From: ACarlson
Sent: 4/1/2023 6:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Transfer a Memorial practice v. policy

Hi all,
Question to clarify the "logic" between Transfer a Memorial practice and policy...

(and please, I'm not being a smarta$$ here, just observing)... regarding transfers, the Find a Grave Transfer policy and requests s/b w/i 4 generations... yet the volunteers (and don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate and am grateful for volunteers' contributions) who visit cemeteries, photograph headstones, and create Find a Grave memorials for UNrelated strangers. Now, IF this is a case where you ARE related to the memorial, please forgive my error, and disregard my assumptive comments.

"Transfer requests should be for direct relatives within four generations. This would be your siblings, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren."

With the advent of DNA matches, I would think that, on occasion, I'm related closer than an UNrelated volunteer-photographer, yet, because my relationship is to my 6th great grandfather, or 5th cousin, 3x removed, the memorial transfer can be declined?
Thx,
Annette
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You're welcome to use my photos for your personal family tree. For any other purpose, personal, or commercial, permission is required. Just ask.

I'm a part-time photo-getter, giving back to the Find a Grave community for what I've received, and hopefully giving back more.

All memorials I manage, I'm related or have some connection. If you'd like a memorial transferred, let's talk. If you're also related to any memorial I manage, let's talk. There's a lot we can learn from each other.

====================
If you Request Photo for a memorial...
and here's just my quirky opinion if you request a photo and are not the memorial manager... As a photo volunteer, I have questions, suggestions, and other websites and/or resources that I can share with you the photo requester... but if you are not accepting messages via your Find A Grave Profile (i.e., have messages turned off), there is no way I can reach you.
====================
More about transfers...
This is for those members who have collected thousands and even hundreds of thousands of memorials, and are sticklers for the "FindaGrave Policy on Transfers"... (and don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate and am grateful for volunteers' contributions who visit cemeteries, photograph headstones, and create Find a Grave memorials for UNrelated strangers.)

Here's my email inquiry to Find a Grave, and the response I received regarding the "transfer policy"...

THE CLIFF NOTES = "it's a guideline, not a rule"...
from the email response below...
"Now, these are the transfer GUIDELINES as to when we (Find a Grave) require transfers to be made. HOWEVER, members can choose to transfer memorials outside of these relationship guidelines, but our team will only step into mediate a transfer within these guidelines." (all caps emphasis is mine)

-----Original Message-----
From: Find a Grave Support
To: acarlson
Sent: Mon, Apr 17, 2023 4:48 pm
Subject: Transfer a Memorial practice v. policy

Hello Annette,
Thank you for contacting Find a Grave.
We would be happy to answer your questions regarding transfers.

You are correct in that memorials are transferred for relatives with these close relationships: child, spouse/partner, sibling, parent, grandchild, great-grandchild, grandparent, great-grandparent, niece/nephew, great-niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, great-aunt/uncle, or first cousin. This would also include adoptive, step and in-law versions of these relationships. If two members are related within these guidelines and both would like to manage the memorial, the member with the closer relationship should be given management.

Now, these are the transfer guidelines as to when we require transfers to be made. However, members can choose to transfer memorials outside of these relationship guidelines, but our team will only step into mediate a transfer within these guidelines.

Hopefully that helps to provide more clarification.

Sincerely,

Amber
Find a Grave Administrator
findagrave.com

--------------- Original Message ---------------
From: ACarlson
Sent: 4/1/2023 6:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Transfer a Memorial practice v. policy

Hi all,
Question to clarify the "logic" between Transfer a Memorial practice and policy...

(and please, I'm not being a smarta$$ here, just observing)... regarding transfers, the Find a Grave Transfer policy and requests s/b w/i 4 generations... yet the volunteers (and don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate and am grateful for volunteers' contributions) who visit cemeteries, photograph headstones, and create Find a Grave memorials for UNrelated strangers. Now, IF this is a case where you ARE related to the memorial, please forgive my error, and disregard my assumptive comments.

"Transfer requests should be for direct relatives within four generations. This would be your siblings, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren."

With the advent of DNA matches, I would think that, on occasion, I'm related closer than an UNrelated volunteer-photographer, yet, because my relationship is to my 6th great grandfather, or 5th cousin, 3x removed, the memorial transfer can be declined?
Thx,
Annette
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