The presentation for this week's workshop was a comparison of three cemetery websites. We discussed Find A Grave, Billion Graves and Interment. The sites provide opportunities for volunteers to photograph tombstones or provide additional information for their ancestors.
FindAGrave.com has the largest database and is the only one that includes both obituaries and photographs. In many cases families are linked and you can locate many memorials from an original search. Be sure to scroll down on the page to find other people with the same surname in that cemetery, town, county, state or country!
BillionGraves.com has a mission to locate each tombstone pictured by GPS. Transcribers work to note information included on the tombstone.
Interment.net cannot be searched by surname, as it contains cemetery listings that have been submitted by volunteers from personal research, funeral homes, cemetery associations and others. You can search by location and then check any cemetery list that is available.
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