If you find your photos on FindAGrave that you did not contribute then you should contact FindAGrave. The site doesn't allow it and they don't search the Internet looking for photos to steal. However, there are people who do copy photos from the Internet and submit them to the FindAGrave. I like to give these folks the benefit of the doubt and maybe they are well meaning and don't understand that images are copyrighted and not free for the taking. Perhaps the feel they have a right to them if they are related?!? Many folks really believe that if it's on the Internet it's free for the taking. I've heard this many times in my capacity as a CC and RootsWeb list/board admin. I am grateful to FindAGrave. Photos of my parents' monuments got lost when I moved and a photo volunteer took pics for me and now they are on FindAGrave. I can visit them whenever I I get to missing my folks even though they are buried 500 miles from where I live. It's unlikely that I will ever return to my hometown again since I have no family left to visit. FindAGrave is the next best thing to being there. If I learned one thing about the Internet it's this: if you don't want it copied then don't upload it. J. Asche On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Mike & Diane <[email protected]> wrote: > > I totally agree with you Jan. I do have some FAG contributors that send me > duplicate photos first then upload them to FAG. > However, I went to FAG looking for a clarification on a name someone was > looking for and found a photo of my own fathers headstone on their site > which # 1 I did not give them permission to use, # 2, the stone hasn't even > been set in the cemetery as yet! It is sitting in my backyard and I know I > haven't given anyone permission to come in my backyard to take a photo of it >  It can't be seen unless you walk in my yard around the back of the house > around the porch and uncover it from the tarps it is under. So how did they > just happen to get a photo of it? They swiped that one for sure! There are > some definite thieves that work on FAG, now mind you, there are some great > people that volunteer there, I have a few that go out and take duplicate > photos of the headstones in the cemeteries so that they can send me a set > for the counties I maintain and they can upload a different set to FAG, that > way they don't break FAG's copyright violations, but when I saw the photo of > my father's headstone on there I went ballistic. I personally won't send FAG > anything and wouldn't P on them if they were on fire at this point. > JMHO, > Diane > >  > NCGenWeb SC > NCGenWeb CC > NCGenWeb Special Projects > -------Original Message------- >