10 Things You Never Knew About Funeral Home History
10 things you never knew about funeral home history? Yes. Burial ceremonies have existed since the beginning of time but many traditions have changed. Our ancestors’ experiences when someone died were quite different from our own. The first funeral home in the United States was…
What’s New, BillionGraves? 10 Great New Features!
What’s new, BillionGraves? Well, a LOT! Here are 10 great new features for you to explore on the BillionGraves website. There’s something here for every BillionGraves fan! So whether you are a volunteer photographer, transcriber, or family history researcher, these new features are sure to…
10 Steps to Planning a Group Cemetery Event
Across the world, gravestones are deteriorating, and erosion is erasing the precious details of our ancestors’ lives. BillionGraves, the world’s largest GPS-linked cemetery database, can help. The BillionGraves smartphone app can be used to document gravestones. Then, even if a loved one’s gravestone is damaged…
Lake View Cemetery: One of the Prettiest in the World
Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the prettiest garden cemeteries in the world. With more than 115,000 gravestones, it is also huge. If you go, bring your walking shoes! There is something about this cemetery that makes me think of these song…
Types of Gravestones: from Fieldstone to Granite
Understanding the different types of gravestones used throughout history can help genealogists and family historians figure out when a marker was placed. Our ancestors were likely to have grave markers made of one of the following materials depending on when they lived: Types of Gravestones:…
Gravestone Cleaning Tips from BillionGraves
Gravestone cleaning can turn back the wheels of time to make your ancestor’s final resting place nearly as beautiful as the day their family members gathered there to wish them farewell. Time has been hard on gravestones that were originally considered nearly permanent. Weathering, erosion,…
