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The BillionGraves team is proud to announce that we have reached 11,000,000 million GPS headstone records, and 129,394 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_11_MilWe are reaching each Million Mark faster and faster each time around. This time, it only took 57 days for our transcribers to create another million records! With the summer coming to a close and cold weather kicking in, there is no stopping our transcribers from creating another million records to share with the world! With new partnerships and dedicated contributors, we are growing our headstone record database internationally! With 630,000 records coming from the US, that means that nearly 370,000 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 11,000,000 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:

129,394 Total BillionGraves Users
15,597 different cemeteries contain more than 1 GPS headstone record
Top 5 Cemeteries with GPS headstone records:
Calvary Cemetery, Kansas, USA: 161,613 Records
Greenwood Cemetery, Florida, USA: 140,721 Records
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Australia: 123,048 Records
Riverside Cemetery, Illinois, USA: 83,299 Records
Woodlawn Cemetery, S. Dakota, USA: 76,839 Records
134 different countries with searchable GPS headstone records.
Top 10 Countries with searchable GPS headstone records:
USA: 8,365,625
Australia: 817,419
United Kingdom: 543,345
Canada: 511,294
New Zealand: 171,603
Germany: 71,309
Poland: 60,545
The Netherlands: 57,445
Sweden: 56,391
Israel: 44,649
945,749 Images waiting to be transcribed and added our searchable database!
2,940 Users helped transcribe the last 1 million GPS headstone records
4,171 Users help take the photos of the last 1 million GPS headstone records
 
Who took the 11 millionth photo?
odowdft

 

Who transcribed the 11 millionth GPS headstone record?
pdsrim

 

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

 

-The BillionGraves Team