Your Profile page shares information about you such as your member name, your profile photo, how long you have been a Find a Grave member, your Find a Grave member ID, and when you were Last Active.
Last Active
The Last Active status will tell you generally when a member was last active on the site. Find a Grave determines this by the member being signed in to their account and using the site. This is displayed in the top section of the Profile. The statuses are:
This month
Last month
In the past year
Over a year ago
Members with a Last active status of over a year ago have not signed in to their account in over a year. If they don't sign in within 30 days their account will be been marked inactive. Memorials in inactive accounts are managed by Find a Grave and could be transferred to others who would like to manage them. Learn more through Find a Grave Community and Memorial Managers overview and Request to Manage.
Edit Profile
Select Edit Profile from your profile page to edit your public name, add an optional link to your homepage, update your profile photo, or add a bio. (One idea for your homepage could be sharing a link to a website that is related to your research or other activities related to Find a Grave.)
Email Display setting
In your Edit Profile settings, you can choose whether or not to have your email displayed on your Profile.
Messages and Notification settings
Go to your Account Settings under Notifications to enable Messages on your profile page and choose whether or not to have an email sent to you when you get a new message. If you enable Messages you won't see the button on your Profile page, but other members will.
If a member doesn't have an email address displayed and doesn't have Messages enabled, there is still a way to directly contact them if you have a question about a memorial they manage. You can go to the memorial, click on Suggest Edits, and then scroll down and select Contact Manager. Contact the member through this form if you have a question about this memorial or are requesting to manage it.
Learn more about managing memorials in Management Questions.
Learn more about suggesting edits through Sending Suggest Edits and Notes.
Add a bio
There is an option to add a bio about yourself. Only add information that you want to share with others and that agrees with our Terms and Conditions, Community Guidelines and our support site. This gives you an opportunity to share more information with the community such as your research, your interests, and why you're here contributing at Find a Grave.
Contributions
On your Profile, you and other members can see the Contributions box. Contributions that can only be seen by you are your Suggested Edits, Photo Requests Claimed by you and your Virtual Cemeteries that have been set to private. Only you can see your Favorite Cemeteries.
Search member contributions
From a Profile you can search the members contributions using the First Name or Last Name fields.
Other notices regarding Profile pages
In Memoriam or Fallen Graver - This member passed on and their profile page has been linked to their Find a Grave memorial.
Retired Graver - This member has retired from Find a Grave, closing their account.
Deleted User - This member deleted their member account.
The memorials in these accounts are managed by Find a Grave and could be transferred to others who would like to manage them by going to the memorial, selecting Suggest Edits and then the ‘request to manage’ button.