BillionGraves helps you document, honor and preserve the graves of every person and family who has ever lived. With your help we can create the most comprehensive family history database of photos and records from all the world’s cemeteries. Join our quest with the BillionGraves app to shoot and share photos of headstones from your own cemetery visits—anywhere in the world. Find the headstones you’re looking for, and help us identify even more!
Using BillionGraves is SIMPLE, REWARDING, and FUN:
1. Visit a cemetery (in your hometown, on vacation, on a break from business trips)
2. Use your smartphone camera to take and upload photos of all the headstones you can find
3. Tell friends and family about your experience, and build a network of like-minded folks around the world!
Features:
- Search the world’s largest collection of cemeteries, graves and their GPS locations for FREE
- Discover photos, memories and stories about your family.
- Add a local cemetery, right where you live or wherever you visit
- Use our built-in maps to guide you to family headstones at any cemetery anywhere in the world
- Request headstone photos anywhere in the world
- Find cemeteries near you and user your smartphone camera to fulfill photo requests in seconds
- Link multiple headstone photos
- Save and share memorials with friends and family
- Patent-pending technology
- Many more genealogy resources available online at BillionGraves.com
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4.44 out of 5
78 ratings
in United Kingdom
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Catch the past before it vanishes!
Visiting the odd cemetery from time to time I was surprised how many memorials were lost, fallen over or ‘recycled’. Many had inscriptions that were fading or the underlying stone is being eaten away and becoming unreadable. BG manages to capture these memorials before they suffer oblivion and can let you see them (usually) in a better condition than you would today. Check whether you can help and cover your local Cemy before it is too late - it’s great exercise and you’ll help many people trace their ancestors!
Unnecessarily Difficult to Use
I have been volunteering to take photos of graves for another organisation for years. Their app isn’t brilliant but it is much easier to use than this one!
Brilliant!
This is a great thing!! You can find people to visit their gravesite when you can’t remember or you don’t know. Or for people who are housebound. Brilliant idea.
Great cause, poor App
Continually frustrated by how clunky the App is. Visited a cemetery this afternoon and could not get it to let me add the cemetery. So I went ahead and photographed 80 gravestones. In the App it said they weren’t assigned to a cemetery, but it would let me assign them to one. The only option was to upload them, so I did. It then uploads them to a totally random cemetery somewhere else in the country. Again, there is no option to change the assigned cemetery. After googling for help, it seems I have to email support and they will sort it. All in all a very poor experience, which is such a shame when it’s such a good cause.
Crashes
Keeps Crashing when trying to search!
Full of bugs
Won’t open. Immediately crashes and closes on sign-in.
Billion Graves
Really find the app easy and quick to use and love the fact I can pop into a cemetery as I walk by to grab a couple as well as finding requested graves to help someone out.
Few options, not very stable
I've been using this for just less than a year. It's basic functions are easy to use but there is no transcribe option. Editing only allows you to erase!
Initially I loaded a bunch of photos onto the wrong cemetery as the one I was at had not been defined. A year later after Billiongraves supposedly moved the photos to the correct site, they still show up incorrectly on my iPhone 4S.
I tried using the full site on my phone to get more features but it basically freezes.
Quite a disappointing app.
Crashes all the time
Has potential to be a great site, but it (and the website) crashes all the time on my iPad. Sort it out!!
Great software
Excellent software, easy to use and helpful. Hopefully will get more and more headstones.
Just a shame it is not optimised for iPad mini, but great on iPhone.
