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…
Group Effort
Our records continue to grow, and we couldn’t be more appreciative of our volunteers! We hope you’re having a great month capturing and transcribing images. Have you gone out to the cemetery with a group yet? As you know, we highly recommend it. Not only…
Mother’s Day
With a day devoted to honoring mothers coming up here in the US, we thought we’d honor some here at BillionGraves. Our database of headstones is a great resource for your personal family history research, but did you know it also provides other interesting data…
Million More in May: Picture-taking Tips
Here we are in week two, Our records, we have quite a few. There’s still more to go— but that much, you know!— So let’s add some more to the queue! Remember, to reach our goal of 1,000,000 new records this month, we just need two…
Million More in May: Join Forces!
Wow! We’ve had record uploads every day so far in May! Keep up the good work—we’ll still need thousands more images, so let’s make the weekends our highest uploading days. Keep watching that Leaderboard to see how you’re doing—if you are among the top 25…
Calling All Transcribers
Did you notice the rewards program for transcribers on the BillionGraves website? Go check it out if you haven’t! In addition to the rewards you can earn by uploading pictures of your local cemetery, you can also earn rewards by transcribing images for our database….
