Findmypast Adds Over 1 Million Scottish Monumental Records Online
If you have Scottish heritage, Findmypast is a site that you need to be using, as they already...
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Tag: cemetery records
BillionGraves – A Million More in May 2017
The arrival of May signals the beginning of BillionGraves’ 6th Annual “Million More in May” Competition! Their goal is simple, they are aiming to get 1 million new headstones photographed, transcribed and added to the BillionGraves database during May. Be in it to win.
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Let’s Go to the Cemetery!
October is fast approaching, so it’s Spring in the southern half of the world, with Autumn...
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Is Your Family Buried Here?
Queensland genealogy group, the Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society are looking for...
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Be a Part of the Find A Grave Community Day 2015
Last year Ancestry organised the “Find A Grave Community Day”, and it was an amazing...
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BillionGraves has March Madness
With the seasons changing to Spring in the northern hemisphere, and Autumn in the south – it’s a good time to get out and visit some cemeteries. And BillionGraves gives you even more reasons to …
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Canadian Headstones Website Hits the 1 Million Photographs Mark
Last week CanadianHeadstones.com, Canada’s primary website for cemetery headstones hit the amazing figure of ONE MILLION photographs on their site! One million is a huge number in any context, but when you’re talking about photographs, that’s a LOT of photographs even for the avid photographer!
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100 Million Reasons to Check Out the “Find A Grave” Cemetery Website
Find A Grave is the original cemetery website. One that’s been going for 19 years in fact. I’m sure all of you have ended up on it at some stage to check a record or two, while some of may have even uploaded some photographs. If you haven’t, obviously plenty of others have as just this week it was announced that the 100 millionth photograph had just been uploaded to Find A Grave.
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BillionGraves Gives Away iPads
If you think you misread that title, no you didn’t. BillionGraves are indeed giving away iPads. But, (yes there is a but) you do have to work for it!
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Canadian Headstone Photos Project
Got Canadian roots? If so, listen up. Dick Eastman’s newsletter first introduced me to the Canadian Headstone Photos Project a couple of years ago, and since then I have been watching this project grow over time. Now I know that not every Australian has Canadian connections, but many do, so I thought this would be of interest.
Read MoreHighlight: Tales from Bush Graves
For this highlight, let me introduce you to a new book that has recently been published. Tales from Bush Graves recounts the stories of 218 people who met their death in the Queensland bush, with most of these were caused by fever, accidents, suicide, and murders. The stories have been reconstructed from the actual inquests, with many including newspaper accounts of the day.
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