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The BillionGraves team is proud to announce that we have reached 13,000,000 million GPS headstone records, and 147,022 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_13_MillionEven with the cold weather and feet of snow in some areas of the world, our contributors are still cranking out millions of records! This time, it only took 79 days for our transcribers to create another million records! With new partnerships and dedicated contributors, we are growing our headstone record database internationally! With 506,405 records coming from the US, that means that nearly 495,000 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 13,000,000 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:

147,022 Total BillionGraves Users
30,421 different cemeteries contain more than 1 GPS headstone record
130 different countries with searchable GPS headstone records. (Added 6 more countries!)
Top 5 Photographers who contributed to the last 1 million records:
1. Tombstoneguy: 59,382 (United States)
2. Sabrina: 57,487 (Croatia)
3. Lunn Ellis: 52,201 (Canada)
4. rmconie: 38,067 (Canada)
5. sbayles: 28,315 (United States)
Top 5 Transcribers who contributed to the last 1 million records:
1. NashvilleLady: 27,713 (United States)
2. HonestAbe: 23,620 (United States)
3. Gergely_Juhasz: 22,011 (Hungary)
4. ladywhy: 20,571 (United States)
5. Angel: 18,278 (Australia)
What top Countries contributed the last 1 million records?
1. United States: 506,405
2. Canada: 104,167
3. Australia: 102,106
4. Israel: 72051
5. United Kingdom: 37,757
6. New Zealand: 35,117
7. Hungary: 23,995
8. Germany: 20,952
9. Belgium: 17,849
10. Czech Republic: 13,276
What top US states contributed the last 1 million records?
1. California: 119,152
2. Virginia: 46,405
3. Texas: 42,102
4. Pennsylvania: 37,221
5: Alabama: 21,838
6. Arizona: 20,462
7. Georgia: 19,963
8. Florida: 19,229
9. Nevada: 15,442
10. North Carolina: 14,572
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: 9,425,765
2. (2) Australia: 980,396
3. (4) Canada: 672,385
4. (3) United Kingdom: 609,556
5. (5) New Zealand: 233,801
6. (9) Israel: 139,841
7. (6) Germany: 113,221
8. (7) Poland: 75,389
9. (8) The Netherlands: 72,677
10. (12) Belgium: 64,435
622,406 Images waiting to be transcribed and added our searchable database!
3,374 Users helped transcribe the last 1 million GPS headstone records
3,665 Users help take the photos of the last 1 million GPS headstone records
 
Who took the 13 millionth photo?
pennyt
Who transcribed the 13 millionth GPS headstone record?
gemini1945

 

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

 

-The BillionGraves Team