Working Around the Changing Seasons
The seasons are changing on us, and with new seasons comes new obstacles for recording headstones. Follow these tips as you continue taking photos during fall and winter. Leaves The leaves are falling, and they are making it hard to photograph headstones. Clearing off headstones…
BillionGraves Update 2.0.1
Version 2.0.1 is now available. While this update fixes minor issues, updating your app helps ensure everything is running smoothly. Don’t forget to update your BillionGraves app. Details for a Few Fixes: [list type=”check”] The Account View and Add Cemetery View display bug is fixed….
Organizing Teams for the BillionGraves iPad Giveaway
Are you trying to find motivation for where to donate youriPad 2? There are plenty of opportunities in your own community. We’ll give you an example. I recently spoke with a fourth grade teacher in my area. Her class has two autistic children in it….
The Importance of Staying Current
For those who are following the continuing steam of helpful updates, BillionGraves has recently released a version 2.0.1 of the BillionGraves app for Android and for Apple. While no solution is perfect, each step gets us closer. We try to not make it huge burden…
BillionGraves Team iPad Giveaway
BillionGraves wants to donate brand new iPads to the schools or charities of your choice. Hopefully lots of them! We are pleased to announce our first ever Team iPad Giveaway competition. This new contest will run from November 1st until the last day of 2011….
BillionGraves Team Achievements
All– Many of you have seen the event that we launched on Veterans Day in the US: Team iPad Giveaway In the effort to continue building a bevy of image-takers that can keep our powerful volunteer transcription team busy–we have launched the following event: BillionGraves…
BillionGraves 2.0 for iOS and Android
BillionGraves 2.0 is now available for iOS and Android. This new release comes with many new features and fixes: Simple New Design An all new simplified design makes it much easier to use. The new layout looks great in both portrait and landscape views, and…
Veterans Day USA 11/11/2011
On Friday, November 11th, the United States will observe Veterans Day to honor and thank all military personnel who have served in all wars. There will be special parades, church services, and American flags will be displayed and hung at half mast. At 11 AM…
What a response!
As many of you may recall–we posted some encouragement in the form of an email plea for more images. The response on that very day–was overwhelming. We experienced the largest single day of uploads ever recorded. 20% more uploads than our previous biggest day ever…
Android Update Version 1.3
Today we released version 1.3 of the Android version of the app. Most of the updates are things you won’t notice—fine-tuning, bug fixes, etc. However, with this update we’ve made peace with several phone models that were formerly hostile to the BillionGraves software. Android phones…
September T-shirt Winners
Today’s the last day to upload photos for a September t-shirt. Here are this month’s winners: Ddwertman lmwillett Sophie mlmckenzie smflatness Gayle sadie63 Jeremyeguzman waynedaz Simini WizardAlex J_and_K marnweeks lisabug If you’ve crossed the 1,000 threshold (for either GPS-tagged photos or transcriptions) and you have…
Another Successful Saturday
This weekend we held our mapping event in Sandy, Utah, USA. We spread the word as best we could to the genealogy community, and we were pleasantly surprised by some new faces among the usual suspects. We started out the day by training everyone on…