BillionGraves and The Federation of Genealogical Societies partner to image War of 1812 Participants
BillionGraves and The Federation of Genealogical Societies partner to image all cemetery markers for War of 1812 Participants The Federation of Genealogical Societies also launches a major fundraising campaign for the Preserve the Pensions Project to honor the memory of these veterans in the…
June 50,000 Challenge Results!
The final results are in and the numbers speak for themselves! 728,751 photos were taken, 589,361 records were transcribed(with an additional 750,000 images waiting to be transcribed)! With over 4,500 new BillionGraves users! In total volunteers made over 1,318,112 contributions during the month of June! BillionGraves is growing faster than ever…
Connecting BG records to FamilySearch just got easier!
Let’s admit it. We all like new stuff. The only thing better than new stuff is new FREE stuff! Well, we are here to make your week a little better by introducing our new transcription page and enhanced record connector to FamilySearch! For the past…
A State of Growth – 9 Million Records | 109,000 Users!
The BillionGraves team is proud to announce that we have reached 9,000,000 million records, and 109,394 users! This is a big milestone in growth of BillionGraves! Thanks to all the contributors around the world! For those of you who prefer to see stats in a pretty little picture,…
New Android App 2.3(41) Released!
We are delighted to announce the latest (and greatest) Android application is now available on the Google Play store! 2.3 Version 41 Thanks to our users for their feedback and testing of the new Android version. With your help we’ve been able to make…
Cyber Attacks 101: Is Your Genealogy Safe?
Yesterday, our friends over at Ancestry.com say they were hit by what’s called a DDoS Attack, or a “Distributed Denial of Service” attack. It has temporarily shut down Ancestry.com and their affiliated mobile application, Find A Grave, which is frustrating for the company and users…
