As the records keep pouring in by the thousands, transcribers are persistently making them available to be searched. Now we are happy to announce that those records will be more readily available to genealogists worldwide.
Similar to our relationship with Family Search, BillionGraves has also teamed up with Ancestry to make BillionGraves records available to be indexed and referenced on Ancestry.com. This means that anyone searching for family records on Ancestry can have access to BillionGraves records without having to do a separate search on the BillionGraves page.
We are very excited to be partnered with such a fantastic company! This new development will vastly increase the amount of access people worldwide will have in finding and preserving family records.
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Does that mean that we now have to pay Ancestry to get to see our own work?
No, anyone can see all the BillionGraves records both on Ancestry and BillionGraves whether you have an account or not.
BillionGraves will ALWAYS be a free service. Our primary goal is and will always be to make records found in cemeteries readily available to people everywhere. We will ensure this by leaving both our website AND mobile app free of charge. For our avid users, we offer extended services including extra record watches, access to all BillionGraves records on your mobile device, and virtual walkthroughs of any cemetery on your device and more are offered through our BillionGraves Plus Account. This is available for only $9.99 per year and coming soon, users will be able to earn the same features by uploading or transcribing enough records (see below).
Are you still associated with FamilySearch?
Oh yes, Regine, we definitely are!
I think it’s great – well done!
So will people on ancestry be able to link the photos from BG to their ancestry accounts or just the information? Will the photos be downloadable?
Eric,
Yes, the photos will be downloadable (for your personal use). If you use it for anything besides personal use, we only ask that you cite the source in the form of a link to the image on the BillionGraves website.
And yes, the people on ancestry will be able to link the photos from BG to their ancestry accounts!
I am just wondering by chance if you’d have my Gr-Grandfather grave site, his name is Benjamin J Kirkpatrick, he was living in Arkansas, Hico twp. Benton Co. Ar. I have been searching for him for year’s,. this is the last time I had located him being 72 yr’ old and as above mentioned where he was living, I am beginning to think that someone just forgot to bury him !!
Dianna
Dianna,
I did a quick search on our records but I didn’t see anyone matching that information, but new records are uploaded every day so keep checking back!
Two things you can do:
1. Set up an account through BillionGraves (if you don’t already have one) and for the month of February you can set up a record watch for his last name. So you can be notified of when new records with that last name are uploaded. (See the most recent blog post–Free in February–for details on how to do that.)
or
2. If you know the cemetery where he was buried, you can set up a request for someone in that area to go to the cemetery to find and photograph his headstone.
Will BillionGraves also be available on AncestryLibrary.com?
Harry, I’m not entirely sure what AncestryLibrary.com is, and when I looked it up, I didn’t have access to it. So I’m assuming that if it’s part of Ancestry, then it will be available on it. To be sure, contact Ancestry support and see what they can tell you.
Sorry I can’t be of more help here!
ancestrylibrary can only be used in your public library it is not for home use. you must have a library card to use it at your local library.
Great, maybe ancestry will give a descent search capablilty for records on billingraves
Thank you Billion graves and Ancestry for teaming up to provide such a wonderful tool for all of us that spend hours researching our family’s. Your hard work is appreciated by all.
Yay! The more searchable, the better.
Have you considered having a LIKE button on here? I often want to pass along kudos, but hate to clutter up the comments with saying the same thing as others. I could simply LIKE your blog, and LIKE certain comments.
Lori, thanks for the suggestion. I’ll pass this along to our developers and see if we can do that! Thanks!
A great idea.
Amazing idea!! And a great way to get more UK Based graveyards photographed and indexed as I’m sure more UK researchers will want the info to link on their Ancestry trees. I had previously done a few sessions of photgraphing for you but this now gives me far more incentive!! big thanks x