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[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 is easily done because of the GPS features offered by the smartphone app used for taking pictures of the headstones. | One feature of this site is that one can search the database by cemetery, or search the entire site overall for a name. This is easily done because of the GPS features offered by the smartphone app used for taking pictures of the headstones. | ||
FamilySearch announced on 27 April 2012 that they would incorporate searches for data from this site into the FamilySearch.org website, meaning that the same data will be searchable on either site, there may be a slight lag time between when data is indexed on BillionGraves and when the same data will show up in the search results at FamilySearch. See this [https://www.familysearch.org/blog/billiongraves/ blog post] for more information. | |||
==== Names in Stone ==== | ==== Names in Stone ==== | ||