Getting Started with BillionGraves
[en] The Challenge BillionGraves has a goal to record one billion headstones across the world. Recording headstones with their specific GPS location will allow people researching their family history to access headstone information from anywhere in the world. Using your GPS enabled smartphone, you can…
Tip: Capacitive Gloves
We found another tip to help you continue to collect images this winter: capacitive gloves. These gloves have conductive fingertips to allow you to use your tablet or smartphone while wearing them! Grab a pair and head out to your nearest cemetery and keep working…
Image Review Process
We love and appreciate all the hard work and time you put in to gathering headstone images. Your work is helping family history enthusiasts everywhere. Because we want to make sure all of the images on BillionGraves are useable, we have always had a system…
Training Materials for BillionGraves
We want everyone to participate in the BillionGraves project, so we’ve created some basic tutorials and training materials for you. The materials can be read online or printed for your convenience. Take our quick reference guide with you to the cemetery to help you on…
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…
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…
