Free in February
BillionGraves loves all of our users! To show how much we appreciate you, we are giving you (yes, everyone) a FREE BillionGraves Plus subscription for the month of February! (For our users who have already purchased BillionGraves Plus, we’ll give you an extra month on…
BillionGraves Teams Up with Ancestry
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…
A Bigger and Better BillionGraves
Exciting news! BillionGraves has been adopted into a new family! BillionGraves was recently acquired by Otter Creek Holdings (based in Ogden, Utah). Otter Creek Holdings and it’s subsidiaries, My Legacy Memorial and Legacy Mobile, understand the connection people have to Family History. So BillionGraves could not have…
Give the Gift of Family this Year
Winter is in the air at BillionGraves! The BillionGraves team wishes you the best during this holiday season and hopes that it is full of family, friends, and warm memories. This truly is the most wonderful time of the year! After the holiday rush is…
Bitten by the BillionGraves Bug
My first experience with BillionGraves was on an uncharacteristically warm October afternoon with a boy whose dream vacation is driving to some ghost town’s forgotten cemetery to take pictures. Let’s just say I wasn’t quite as enthusiastic as he was. But he swore that I would have…
BillionGraves Backpack
To take photos for BillionGraves, all you really need is you phone, right? True, but you won’t regret having a few extra items with you to make your trip to the cemetery as smooth as silk. We’ve compiled a list of suggestions for you to…
Working Together
Since the BillionGraves Index is now available on FamilySearch.org, a large group from FamilySearch employees decided to learn more about what BillionGraves is all about. So they headed to the Murray Cemetery in Utah to give the app a try. Some people took pictures, and…
BillionGraves: In a State of Growth
BillionGraves gained a lot of momentum in May, and we are thrilled with the growth we’re experiencing. Let’s keep up the momentum and celebrate! For the month of June, the Leaderboard will show which region around the world is gathering the most new uploads. Regions…
Million More in May: Thank You and Results
Congratulations! We had a monumental month at BillionGraves, and it’s all thanks to you. At BillionGraves, we’re all about bigger and better goals. Even our name is an audacious goal: One Billion Graves. Some people think it’s an impossible number, but there are truly a billion headstones…
Million More in May: Check the Leaderboard!
We had a record-breaking weekend this Memorial Day weekend, and we are so appreciative of everyone’s efforts. Some of you noticed that services were down for a period yesterday—one of our servers was acting up because of the huge amounts of traffic to our site…
Million More in May: Happy Memorial Day!
Happy Memorial Day weekend to those in the US! At a time when we pause to remember those who fought for our freedom, we visit our cemeteries and show our love with tokens and kind words. In honor of Memorial Day, some members of the…
Why BillionGraves Uses GPS-Encoded Photos
Many people have been asking us lately why they can’t submit photos taken with traditional cameras to the BillionGraves database. The BillionGraves database is unique in that it contains GPS information. By adding GPS data to each headstone image, cemetery and location data is attached…