I Found My Uncle!
Have you ever wondered if your contributions to BillionGraves are really making a difference? Well, they certainly do. Here’s just one of the many stories of the people who are benefitting from YOUR contributions: Diane, a resident of Ontario, Canada, was on a quest to…
Coming Soon: Legacy Mobile Launch Winner!
We are in the process of calculating the entries for the winner of the Legacy Mobile Launch iPad mini giveaway for the month of April. The winner will be posted here, on the BillionGraves blog, tomorrow! Stay tuned!
Million More in May!
It’s back! The second annual “Million More in May” competition is here! Start getting excited for some friendly competition and taking pictures in the warmer weather! Here’s how it works: The Challenge: The goal is to add a million more images to BillionGraves during the…
Last Week of Legacy Mobile Launch: Tell a friend!
It’s the final week of the Legacy Mobile Launch, which means this is your last chance to win the iPad mini! For the fourth and final entry this week, we want you to tell a friend about Legacy Mobile! Spread the news about this handy…
Biking and BillionGraves: 1700 miles, 42 days, 5 Cemeteries
Meet Denis, the BillionGraves biker. Okay, so he didn’t bike 1700 miles down the west U.S. coast ONLY to take pictures for BillionGraves, but he definitely made it a priority last fall to stop at every cemetery he passed to take as many pictures as…
Legacy Mobile Launch: Week 3
Getting excited about possibly winning the iPad mini this month? Here’s a third way you can enter to win! We want to hear from YOU! How do you like Legacy Mobile? To enter to win the iPad mini, simply comment below this post and let…
Legacy Mobile Launch—Week 2 Entry
It’s the second week of our Legacy Mobile Launch and the app is spreading like wildfire! People are downloading it left and right, and are talking about how excited they are about it (just check out the comments on the Facebook page). For this second…
Legacy Mobile is Available for Download!
Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for: Legacy Mobile is available for download from the Apple AppStore! Otter Creek Holdings announced its release at RootsTech2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The setting for this announcement was ideal in that this new app will change the…
Legacy Mobile Launch
Legacy Mobile is the free app that allows you to take your family tree with you wherever you go and uses the latest genealogy technology: LegacyTec. It syncs with FamilySearch and BillionGraves (and other genealogy sites coming very soon!) to give you the best mobile…
March Winners!
Thank you everyone for participating in our March friendly competitions. We had 221,818 records uploaded with this month and 292,950 records transcribed! That puts this month in the top four record months of all time! We sure had fun watching the records pour in and the transcribers…
It’s the Last Weekend!
This is the last weekend of March BillionGraves Madness! Where do you stand on the bracket? If you’re not on there, don’t worry! You have until Sunday night (March 31) at midnight (UTC time) to get your photos in! Make sure your photos are uploaded…
RootsTech “Wow” Moments
Thanks to Jyl Pattee’s challenge at the Keynote session on Friday, I decided to find some “Wow” moments during my time at RootsTech. While traveling to all 50 states, Jyl made “Wow” moments by taking jumping pictures by roadsigns. Well, I decided to travel a…
