Transcribing BillionGraves Records on a Mobile Phone

Transcribing BillionGraves Records on a Mobile Phone

Transcribing BillionGraves records on a mobile phone makes it possible for you to serve while you are on the go! Transcribing used to be done only on computers but now you can also transcribe names and dates from gravestones on your iOS or Android phone. This is...
BillionGraves Million More in May Madness 2017

BillionGraves Million More in May Madness 2017

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...
How to Clean Gravestones on Memorial Day

How to Clean Gravestones on Memorial Day

This Memorial Day, take the time to clean the gravestones of your ancestors. Cleaning can turn back time to make your loved one’s final resting place nearly as beautiful as the day their family members gathered there to wish them farewell. Some weathering, erosion,...
Hand Symbolism on Gravestones

Hand Symbolism on Gravestones

BillionGraves has written an article about hand symbolism on gravestones, explaining what the symbols mean and how it can reveal how our ancestors lived and what they believed. One of the most common gravestone symbols on tombstones is the hand. There are clasped...
How to Clean Gravestones on Memorial Day

How to Clean Gravestones on Memorial Day

This Memorial Day, take the time to clean the gravestones of your ancestors. Cleaning can turn back time to make your loved one’s final resting place nearly as beautiful as the day their family members gathered there to wish them farewell. Some weathering, erosion,...
Use Gravestone Clues to Find Your Ancestors

Use Gravestone Clues to Find Your Ancestors

Gravestone clues may be just the thing you need to break through your genealogical brick walls and find your ancestors! Headstones are frequently overlooked as tools for family history research but YOU can be a gravestone detective! Even if you know the names and key...
Cemetery Projects for Youth Groups & Families

Cemetery Projects for Youth Groups & Families

Here’s a COVID-friendly idea for a youth group or your family: take photos of gravestones. Using the BillionGraves app, each gravestone is automatically marked with a GPS location. The data is then transcribed by volunteers, plotted on cemetery maps, and made...
Missionaries Taking Photos of Gravestones

Missionaries Taking Photos of Gravestones

From the BillionGraves blog: Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spent most of their time sharing messages of faith with community members and helping those in need of service. They still do, but the...
Find a Grave for Memorial Day

Find a Grave for Memorial Day

On Memorial Day next Monday, May 25, many people plan to connect with their ancestors by visiting their graves. BillionGraves.com makes it easy to locate and visit a grave or simply view your ancestors’ headstones from home. Learn how to find a gravestone at the...
10 Ways Family History Can Help You Sanctify the Sabbath

10 Ways Family History Can Help You Sanctify the Sabbath

From the FamilySearch Blog: Outside of the temple, the home is the most holy sanctuary there is—a place where families are counseled to maintain the spirit and to strengthen familial bonds. Committing to a family-focused Sabbath will sanctify its restorative power and...
My Favorite Family History Apps

My Favorite Family History Apps

Carissa Rasmussen has published a list of her favorite family history mobile apps in the article “My Favorite Family History Apps” published in Meridian magazine. Here are her top three: FamilySearch Tree, by FamilySearch International, Android and iOS,...

Billion Graves

The website billiongraves.com is attempting to photograph and index a billion sites from the world’s cemeteries to provide an expansive family history database, all tagged with GPS locations. The video below explains how they are asking for your help to collect and...

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