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BillionGraves is sponsoring its 6th annual Million More in May Competition to add one million gravestone images and one million transcribed records to the BillionGraves database in the month of May.
What is BillionGraves?
- BillionGraves is a free website to look up headstone photos from around the world. It is the world’s largest GPS cemetery database.
- Volunteers use smartphones to take GPS tagged photos of headstones.
- Photos are uploaded to the BillionGraves website. Photos are transcribed by volunteers.
- Photos can be easily accessed for research online.
How do you participate in the competition?
It’s easy and free to participate. You can take photos of headstones in cemeteries near you with your mobile device or you can transcribe photos that others have taken and make them searchable on the site. The ultimate goal is to preserve and document over one million headstones from around the world in just one month!
- Want to take pictures? Start by getting the app on your mobile device. (Download the iOS app or the Android app).
- Want to transcribe photos? Learn how to get started.
How does the competition work?
DarrelMay 7, 2017
What is different between Billion Graves and Find a Grave? It looks like they are both doing the same service.
vickieMay 4, 2017
I tried to put a message up on our relief society online fbbook page and the person in charge just wouldn't put it up. I wanted to let them know the can also be of help putting in information doing head stones ..because on this site it will match up what we have in family search with the head stones....maybe one day she might do it.