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==== BillionGraves ==== | ==== BillionGraves ==== | ||
[http://www.billiongraves.com BillionGraves] is a newer site that allows anyone to download an app for their iPhone or Android device (for Android users, the website will indicate which Android devices do NOT work with their app, often this can depend on either the wireless carrier or the device, occasionally both), then go out to a cemetery and take pictures of the headstones. The app tags the photos with the GPS location, thus it effectively maps the cemetery, which makes it easy to find the location on the web or on the smartphone app. This site is very new, so coverage is not to the level of Find A Grave or Interment.net, but thousands of headstones are photographed and uploaded every week to the site. | [http://www.billiongraves.com BillionGraves] is a newer site that allows anyone to download an app for their iPhone or Android device (for Android users, the website will indicate which Android devices do NOT work with their app, often this can depend on either the wireless carrier or the device, occasionally both), then go out to a cemetery and take pictures of the headstones. The app tags the photos with the GPS location, thus it effectively maps the cemetery, which makes it easy to find the location on the web or on the smartphone app. This site is very new, so coverage is not to the level of Find A Grave or Interment.net, but thousands of headstones are photographed and uploaded every week to the site. | ||
One feature of this site is that one can search the database by cemetery, or search the entire site overall for a name. This can be useful if you believe a person to be buried in one cemetery, when in fact the burial took place at a nearby cemetery, this can happen especially where more than one cemetery is close to where you think the burial is, as some cemeteries may be in fact on adjoining properties, or across the road from each other. <br> | |||
==== Names in Stone ==== | ==== Names in Stone ==== | ||