7 Ways to Become the Photographer Every Genealogist Loves!
In transcribing images for BillionGraves as well as other genealogical records, I have been extremely frustrated in trying to decipher blurry, obscured, or faded records. I feel personally responsible when I can’t correctly transcribe an image because I know that means it won’t be accessible…
A Huge Success
The BillionGraves/My Legacy Memorial team was very excited about our experience at the MBNA Monument Industry show this month. We met a lot of fantastic people and were excited to see the latest and greatest in the industry. At the show, the team also announced…
Otter Creek Holdings Announces Groundbreaking Technology: LegacyTec
Otter Creek Holdings—in conjunction with BillionGraves, My Legacy Memorial, and Legacy Mobile—is proud to announce the release of groundbreaking technology in Family History: LegacyTec. Hudson Gunn, Vice President of Otter Creek Holdings, announced it at MBNA’s Industry show this weekend. LegacyTec gives you access to…
3 Million Milestone
This week was a big one for BillionGraves as we hit two major milestones: 3,000,000 records and 30,000 users! This is a phenomenal achievement seeing as BillionGraves is barely a year and a half old! And we owe it all to YOU! Thanks to our…
BillionGraves goes to MBNA Monument Industry Show
The BillionGraves team along with My Legacy Memorial will be going to the Monument Builders of North America’s (MBNA) Industry show this week. MBNA hosts this show—which only happens once every two years—for monument builders and memorialists from all over the country for three full…
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…