Documenting Cemeteries with BillionGraves
Cathy Wallace
Content
Welcome
53s
Speaker's Introduction
51s
Introduction
10m 16s
Getting Started
9m 10s
Pack a Cemetery Bag
9m 3s
Upload Your Photos
6m 18s
Transcribe
6m 31s
Genealogical Research
9m 47s
Announcements / prizes
1m 38s
Questions / answers
5m 11s
About this webinar
If headstones could talk, they would have a lot of stories to tell. But they can't, so BillionGraves is the next best thing. BillionGraves is the world's largest GPS-linked cemetery data resource. As you take photos with the BillionGraves app on your phone, each gravestone is automatically marked with a GPS location. The data is then transcribed by volunteers, plotted on cemetery maps, and preserved on BillionGraves, FamilySearch, and MyHeritage websites for millions of families around the globe for generations to come.
About the speaker
Cathy Wallace is the Special Projects Coordinator for BillionGraves. She writes BillionGraves’ blog posts, manages projects, and helps to plan cemetery events around the world. Cathy is an avid geneal...
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Comments (77)
The ability to find a name in a very large cemetery is an amazing feature.
very informative
Idea's for when ever I am in a cemetery period!! Great webinar!!
I enjoyed this webinar so much!!! I usually use findagrave but this one is so easy!!!!! I like that it will GPS it right away too!! Thank you so much!!!!
Very informative!
Very Good,Thank You
I thought that an opportunity was missed. Taking photos of headstones couldn't be as much fun as portrayed. However my motivation to do so would be my past usage of grave stone info from the internet. It would be a way for me to provide payback. I still wonder about new burials in a previously photo'd site. The answer suggested that I'd have to walk the entire cemetery to find deaths after 2019.
Absolutely the best webinar ever. So informative and nicely paced. I have taken some pictures of headstones in Canada and others in Mexico. It is nice to know that these can go into the BillionGraves World Wide Commitment.
Thanks for your nice comments, Patricia! I'm glad you enjoyed the webinar and thanks for supporting BillionGraves!