020613_2008_3MillionMil1.png

The BillionGraves team is proud to announce that we have reached 9,000,000 million records, and 109,394 users! This is a big milestone in growth of BillionGraves! Thanks to all the contributors around the world! For those of you who prefer to see stats in a pretty little picture, we’ve created this small info graphic for you! 🙂

 

State_of_Growth_Full_9milWe are reaching each Million Mark faster and faster each time around. This time, it only took 39 days for our transcribers to create another million records! We are photographing headstones at a break-neck speed! Taking only 33 days to take 1 million pictures! With new partnerships and dedicated contributors, we are growing our headstone record database internationally! With 580,000 records coming from the US, that means that nearly 420,000 records are coming from outside the US! That is a huge change for us and a huge advantage to those searching for ancestors overseas!

We want to thank everyone who helped us reach 9,000,000 so quickly! We couldn’t have done it without the wonderful contributors who are visiting and photographing cemeteries throughout the world as well as all those transcribing all those images!

IF you want some additional stats to feed your craving, here are some additional statistics:

109,394 Total BillionGraves Users
15,597 different cemeteries contain more than 1 record
Top 5 Cemeteries with records:
Calvary Cemetery, Kansas, USA: 135,697 Records
Greenwood Cemetery, Florida, USA: 121,328 Records
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Australia: 103,261 Records
Riverside Cemetery, Illinois, USA: 62,384 Records
Woodlawn Cemetery, S. Dakota, USA: 60,488 Records
108 different countries with searchable records.
Top 10 Countries with searchable records:
USA: 7,021,710
Australia: 667,251
United Kingdom: 466,686
Canada: 380,021
New Zealand: 99,176
Sweden: 45,020
The Netherlands: 39,765
Thailand: 10,893
728,000 Images waiting to be transcribed and added our searchable database!
4158 Users helped transcribe the last 1 million records
3058 Users help take the photos of the last 1 million records
 
Who took the 9 millionth photo?
jkpeters189

 

Who transcribed the 9 millionth record?
VeganHiker

 

Please visit our leaderboard to keep up on our current state of growth! Thanks again!

 

-The BillionGraves Team