23 Dec 2024

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Competitions

August Image Rush! 

The summer months are coming to a close here at BillionGraves and that means it’s time for one last summer competition! Let the image rush begin! The Goal: The goal this month is to get as many images as possible while the weather’s still good…

Stories

The Brick Wall Breakthrough 

Norma Storrs Keating—a professional genealogist for over 20 years—was stumped. She was working on a project for a client named Emmett (name has been changed), but could find no trace of his maternal grandmother. Emmett has been estranged from his mother for a few years,…

Stories

The Power of a Picture 

Connor Murphy (of Houston, Texas) didn’t know he was going to provide the missing link between a father and son when he organized over 30 volunteers to photograph the Calvary Hills Cemetery for his Eagle Scout project. His main goal was to “get all the…