BillionGraves Golden Egg Week 3

BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest has officially begun!

Week #3

It’s Wednesday! And you know what that means… another opportunity to win great prizes with BillionGraves in the Golden Egg Hunt!

For a second week in a row, we had amazing participation in our Golden Egg Hunt. People from all over the world are busy looking through cemeteries for our hidden Easter Eggs, and gathering important gravestone images while they’re at it! A big thank you to all who have participated this far!

Now, on to today’s clue: On a cold morning in the north Atlantic 102 years ago, the unthinkable happened to an unsinkable ship.

Today’s clue: What was the date (day, month and year) of the sinking of the HMS Titanic in the north Atlantic?

At 2:20am, two hours after striking an iceberg, the HMS Titanic sank into the frozen waters 350 miles off the coast of Canada. 1500 passengers lost their lives.

Several ships responded to Titanic’s distress calls and were able to save many. Ships from Nova Scotia played a large role in the recovery of the victims and several of Titanic’s passengers are buried in different municipalities of Halifax.

Fairview Cemetery, in Halifax, has grave sites for over 100 passengers alone! However, this cemetery remains untouched by BillionGraves. We want to change that!

To all of our Canadian friends out there, we have a mission for you, should you choose to accept. Let’s document this cemetery and preserve these headstones and memories for years to come!

See Fairview Cemetery on BillionGraves here: http://billiongraves.com/pages/cemeteries/TitanicgravesFairviewCemetery/219167)

Read more about the Halifax Connection to the Titanic here: http://www.novascotia.ca/titanic/connection.asp

There you have it! Now get out into the cemeteries and find some BillionGraves Golden Eggs!

Remember to follow all the guidelines and rules to qualify for the challenge each week! A quick refresher on the basic rules:

• The clue will be for a specific date (day, month AND year) of a significant moment in national or global history that you will need to find on a headstone between the Wednesday and Sunday (11:59pm GMT) of that week.
• If you find a headstone with the special date as either the Birth or Death date (day, month AND year), you’ve found a BillionGraves Easter Egg!
• Take a picture and upload it to BillionGraves through the mobile application
• Copy and paste the URL into the comments section of this Blog post.

For a full recap of all the rules check them out HERE!

NOTICE:

• 1 egg winner per person per week. Multiple submissions will aid in the chance of getting the Golden Egg.
• Submissions of headstones will only be used if the full date is included on the inscription of the headstone. Unmarked graves or incomplete graves will not be included unless the actual original burial record (not just typed transcription of a burial index) is added to the record.

Good luck, BillionGravers and Happy Egg Hunting!

BillionGraves Golden Egg Week 2 Winners

 BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest Winners!

Week #2

Week 2 of the BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest is officially over! Another incredible week with 176,769 photos taken and 208,038 new records transcribed! A big THANK YOU to everyone who contributed this weekend and found 5 Golden Eggs all over the world! Check out the leaderboard HERE!

This week’s Golden Egg clue was the date that NASA introduced the Mercury Seven astronaut team to the world, April 9, 1959. 

For our Facebook friends, there was a bonus question for an extra entry into the contest. The question: Only one member from the Original Mercury Seven Astronauts stepped foot on the moon, was “Captain” Alan Shepard. Congrats to Jessica Blanton for winning this week’s bonus entry!

Here are the 6 entries submitted over the weekend!

The winners of the BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest for week 2 are:

Bronze Egg ($10 Amazon gift card): Robert Alan Carter

Silver Egg ($20 Anker Backup Battery): Jessica Blanton

Golden Egg ($40 Ogio Newt Tablet Case): Zoey

****Winner’s check your BillionGraves email for information about claiming your prize!****

A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this week’s Golden Egg contest! Didn’t win this week? Don’t worry, you can still win a Golden Egg during week 3 of the Golden Egg Contest! So grab your phone, and start planning your trip to the cemetery this weekend! Remember, you need the clue to participate, so follow us on Facebook HERE and tune in this Wednesday for this week’s Golden Egg clue.

Happy BillionGraves’ing!

BillionGraves Golden Egg Week 2

BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest has officially begun!

Week #2

Happy Hump Day, BillionGravers! Why is today so great? Is it because the work week’s half over? Or because today we come out with our second clue for the BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest?! I hope it’s the latter because we’ve got a good clue for you today.

First off, we had AMAZING participation in our first week of the Egg Hunt. We had 17 Egg submissions from all over the world. Thanks for helping us kick off this promotion with a bang! Now, get ready for another week of Egg hunting!

Here’s today’s clue:

On this day (April 9), NASA introduced the United States’ first astronauts to the world. These old test pilots would participate in Project Mercury, America’s first manned spaceflight program. Known as the “Mercury Seven”, these men were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. This program was pivotal in the Space Race, as it helped prove technology, develop new and innovative systems, and provide crucial information and experience that would lead man to the moon by the end of the 60’s.

The clue: What was the date (day, month and year) that NASA introduced the Mercury Seven astronaut team to the world?  

Hint: The year for this week’s Egg Hunt clue can be found in the video below.

Remember to follow all the guidelines and rules to qualify for the challenge each week! A quick refresher on the basic rules:

• The clue will be for a specific date (day, month AND year) of a significant moment in national or global history that you will need to find on a headstone between the Wednesday and Sunday (12:00 AM GMT) of that week.
• If you find a headstone with the special date (day, month AND year), you’ve found a BillionGraves Easter Egg!
• Take a picture and upload it to BillionGraves through the mobile application
• Copy and paste the URL into the comments section of this Blog post.

For a full recap of all the rules check them out HERE!

NOTICE:

• 1 egg winner per person per week. Multiple submissions will aid in the chance of getting the Golden Egg.
• Submissions must be attached to this blog post in it’s full form. No other hyperlink other than of a new record will be accepted.
• Submissions of headstones will only be used if the full date is included on the inscription of the headstone. Unmarked graves or incomplete graves will not be included unless the actual original burial record (not just typed transcription of a burial index) is added to the record.

Check out our BillionGraves Facebook post today for our Bonus Question! Answer the question correctly and you could win an entry into the Golden Egg Hunt! -> HERE!

Every correct answer to the Bonus Question will qualify you for a raffle for one individual to be included in the Golden Egg contest. Only 1 entry per Facebook User. User MUST “like” the BillionGraves Facebook page to qualify.

Good luck, BillionGravers! Happy Egg Hunting!

BillionGraves iOS App now available in 25 languages!

BillionGraves iOS App now available in 25 languages!

Last month we announced our international collaboration with MyHeritage to make BillionGraves available to every person in the world. Today we are happy to announce the release of our BillionGraves app in the iTunes markets in 25 languages!

That’s right, the BillionGraves app is now available in 25 languages!! For those of you who have always wondered what the BG app looked like in Dutch, or Hebrew; well, now you’ll be able to find out!

In this release there are also several bug fixes as well as enhancements to the on-device transcription features including handling of Hebrew dates.

The launch of the iOS app is only the first of many enhancements that will be coming very soon to BillionGraves. Some of these enhancement include the website and Android app available in 25 languages as well.  Follow us on Facebook HERE to keep up to date with the latest news about new features!

Get the new BillionGraves app on iTunes NOW!

BillionGraves Golden Egg Week 1 Winners

 BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest Winners!

Week #1

Week 1 of the BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest is officially over! What an incredible start to April with 82,502 photos taken and 90,705 new records transcribed! A big THANK YOU to everyone who contributed this weekend and found 17 Golden Eggs all over the world! Check out the leaderboard HERE!

This week’s Golden Egg clue was the date that Pope John Paul II passed away, April 2, 2005. Here are the 17 entries submitted over the weekend!

The winners of the BillionGraves Golden Egg Contest for week 1 are:

Bronze Egg ($10 Amazon gift card): Paulwuzhere

Silver Egg ($20 Amazon gift card): Kathleen

Golden Egg ($40 Amazon gift card): Paul R. Smith

****Winner’s check your BillionGraves email for information about claiming your prize!****

A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this week’s Golden Egg contest! Didn’t win this week? Don’t worry, you can still win a Golden Egg during week 2 of the Golden Egg Contest! So grab your phone, and start planning your trip to the cemetery this weekend! Remember, you need the clue to participate, so follow us on Facebook HERE and tune in this Wednesday for this week’s Golden Egg clue.

Happy BillionGraves’ing!