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The BillionGraves team is proud to announce that we have reached 14,000,000 million GPS headstone records, and 170,896 users! This is a big milestone in growth of BillonGraves! 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_14_MillionWith record breaking rainfall across the United States and world-wide holidays, our contributors are still cranking out millions of records! This time, it only took 67 days for our transcribers to create another million records! With new partnerships and dedicated contributors, we are growing our headstone record database internationally! With 562,345 records coming from the US, that means that nearly 440,000 records are coming from outside the US! That is a huge change for us and a huge advantage to those searching for ancestors overseas!

With more than 14 million GPS tagged headstone records (which excludes the millions of searchable “Supporting Records” also found on BillionGraves) BillionGraves maintains its place as the world’s largest and fastest growing collection of GPS tagged headstones in the world! That is incredible! We want to thank everyone who helped us reach 14,000,000 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:

170,896 Total BillionGraves Users
30,421 different cemeteries contain more than 1 GPS headstone record
138 different countries with searchable GPS headstone records. (Added 8 more countries!)
Top 5 Photographers who contributed to the last 1 million records:
1. Jim Lohr: 80,343 (United States)
2. Sabrina: 50,771 (Croatia)
3. OurFamilyBefore: 34,535 (United States)
4. lavi: 31,240 (Israel)
5. Eagle Scout Project: 30,013 (United States)
Top 5 Transcribers who contributed to the last 1 million records:
1. JoMore: 42,519 (United States)
2. HonestAbe: 30,397 (United States)
3. Stephen_Smith: 22,028 (United States)
4. NashvilleLady: 18,590 (United States)
5. Carolyn: 17,842 (United States)
What top Countries contributed the last 1 million records?
1. United States: 562,345
2. Australia: 106,225
3. Israel: 75,011
4. Canada: 67,753
5. United Kingdom: 39,490
6. New Zealand: 29,287
7. Czech Republic: 18,945
8. Croatia: 12,431
9. Hungary: 11,586
10. Poland: 11,354
What top US states contributed the last 1 million records?
1. California: 114,460
2. Pennsylvania: 42,155
3. Arizona: 41,022
4. Idaho: 35,113
5: Texas: 30,306
6. Washington: 29,764
7. Ohio: 23,142
8. Oklahoma: 19,808
9. Iowa: 19,605
10. Illinois: 18,132
Top 10 Countries with searchable GPS headstone records: (Includes All 13 Million Records)
Note this is searchable GPS records and does not include photos waiting for transcription.
(#) Is previous ranking.
1. (1) USA: 10,150,920
2. (2) Australia: 1,105,947
3. (3) Canada: 747,847
4. (4) United Kingdom: 657,388
5. (5) New Zealand: 268,378
6. (6) Israel: 234,706
7. (7) Germany: 125,230
8. (8) Poland: 106,693
9. (13) Czech Republic: 82,300
10. (10) Belgium: 75,271
788,889 Images waiting to be transcribed and added our searchable database!
3,274 Users helped transcribe the last 1 million GPS headstone records
3,284 Users help take the photos of the last 1 million GPS headstone records
 
Who took the 14 millionth photo?
DebJ
Who transcribed the 14 millionth GPS headstone record?
DebJ
Please visit our leaderboard to keep up on our current state of growth! Thanks again!
-The BillionGraves Team