August has been a photo-, map-, and transcription-filled month, and you all have been amazing in the process. Every one of you contributing to BillionGraves has contributed to the awesome growth we’ve seen and to the growing number of complete cemetery records and photos that are now available.
Looking Back at August
There have been thousands of photos uploaded, and there have been many thousands of records transcribed. In fact, there have been so many transcriptions from dedicated individuals that even though we said this month’s promotion would only give t-shirts to those who uploaded photos from the app that we’re sending t-shirts to individuals who transcribed over 1,000 images in August. (If you’re one of these great people, check your email and please get your t-shirt size and shipping information to me as soon as possible.)
Here are this month’s winners and their totals (as of around 10:00 p.m. GMT):
Photo collectors:
  • Dswillet (10504)
  • Gableboy (2327)
  • Mitchowl (8087)
  • PapaMoose (1014)
  • ValerieC84 (1088)
  • GeneologyMaster (1151)
  • Hokie374 (9016)
  • tjalbrecht (5269)
  • ladyr0wan (1210)
  • DdraigGoch (1618)
  • crex (1159)
  • Anne Ryan (1998)
  • Bmathis (1452)
  • Rbemis01 (4127)
  • MichaelMcCormick
  • Chynna67 (1433)
  • Vickytb (1120)
  • TaraDuncan (1078)
  • waterfreak2009 (1925)
  • Chrisser (2115)
  • Joe&Murphy (1572)
  • huntingsage (1137)
  • grave_hopper (1169)
  • shelter (1737)
  • masters001 (1047)
  • dvdmovieking (1006)
  • Catirrel (1089)

Transcribers (if a transcriber already earned a t-shirt from uploading photos, he or she doesn’t get another one):
  • trishkovach (11536)
  • DdraigGoch (10961)
  • RWhisnant (10197)
  • EAC61 (6577)
  • Rbemis01 (5181)
  • SouthPawPhilly (5080)
  • Anne Ryan (3222)
  • Finnsh (3140)
  • Chynna67 (3115)
  • juicyjaffa (2429)
  • dvdmovieking (2141)
  • MollyM (2042)
  • Russell808 (1834)
  • tjalbrecht (1729)
  • grave_hopper (1425)
  • cemeteryschlep (1365)
  • foxhunt (1298)
  • sls1966 (1268)
  • deacent (1151)
  • Bmathis (1059)
  • delmonic1970 (1019)

To everyone, even those who didn’t make it into the over-1,000 club, thank you so much for your contributions to the BillionGraves project!
Looking Forward to September
Now that August is over, what are we going to do for September? For starters, we’re going to duplicate last month’s t-shirt contest: If you upload 1,000 GPS-verified* photos OR transcribe 1,000 photos, you will earn a BillionGraves t-shirt. For those of you who have already won your t-shirt, you won’t get another one if you cross the 1,000-photo threshold, but I hope you won’t let your cemetery-mapping habits falter.
Also, even if you’ve already won your t-shirt, don’t stop there! Let your spouses, friends, children, grandchildren, cousins, neighbors—even complete strangers—know about BillionGraves. The more people we have working on the project, the more cemeteries we can get mapped out, and the more ancestors we can help each other find.
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*GPS-verified photos are headstone photos that come through the free BillionGraves app for iPhone and Android.