Digitizing Graveyards Problem You are here The grave is here UVA Confederate Cemetery UVA Cemetery and Columbarium Founded in 1828 Over 850 graves Resting place of UVA Presidents faculty community members ID: 796184
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Lindsey Brinton & Joseph Glass
Digitizing Graveyards
Slide2Problem
You are here
The grave is here
Slide3UVA Confederate Cemetery
Slide4Slide5Slide6UVA Cemetery and Columbarium
Founded in 1828
Over 850 graves
Resting place of UVA Presidents, faculty, community members
Slide7Slide8Slide9Slide10Photographed over 1000 gravestones
Took rubbings for illegible inscriptions and connected them to image file names
Uploaded photos onto virtual cemetery in Findagrave.com
What we did
Slide1181 million grave records
Virtual Cemeteries
Upload photos, biographical info, leave memorials and comments
Contact other users uploading information on the same family lines
Request for specific cemeteries to be uploaded
Findagrave.com
Slide12Smartphone app allows you to take a picture of each grave, then upload it along with exact GPS coordinates
You can personally extract the information, or leave it for online users
Once indexed, those photos to create a worldwide searchable database
Request for specific cemeteries to be uploaded
Completely free
Billiongraves.com
Slide13Stay out of the glare
Early morning, afternoon, and overcast days are good
Get it all
- Full names and dates, inscriptions
Keep it steady Keep hands and feet outside the photo at all times
Tips for taking graveyard photos
Slide14Stay out of the glare
Slide15Get it all: Wrong
Slide16Get it all: Right
Slide17Keep it steady: Wrong
Slide18Keep it steady: Right
Slide19Keep it steady: Very Wrong
Slide20www.Billiongraves.com
www.Findagrave.com
www.Geneology.com
www.Familysearch.org
https://familysearch.org/blog/preserving-memories-billion-graves/?cid=fsHomeMemD2012
Website Resources
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