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Digitizing Graveyards

Digitizing Graveyards. Lindsey Brinton & Joseph Glass. The grave is here. You are here. Problem. UVA Confederate Cemetery. Founded in 1828 Over 850 graves Resting place of UVA Presidents, faculty, community members. UVA Cemetery and Columbarium. Photographed over 1000 gravestones

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Digitizing Graveyards

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  1. Digitizing Graveyards Lindsey Brinton & Joseph Glass

  2. The grave is here You are here Problem

  3. UVA Confederate Cemetery

  4. Founded in 1828 • Over 850 graves • Resting place of UVA Presidents, faculty, community members UVA Cemetery and Columbarium

  5. Photographed over 1000 gravestones • Took rubbings for illegible inscriptions and connected them to image file names • Uploaded photos onto virtual cemetery in Findagrave.com What we did

  6. 81 million grave records • Virtual Cemeteries • Upload photos, biographical info, leave memorials and comments • Contact other users uploading information on the same family lines • Request for specific cemeteries to be uploaded Findagrave.com

  7. Smartphone app allows you to take a picture of each grave, then upload it along with exact GPS coordinates • You can personally extract the information, or leave it for online users • Once indexed, those photos to create a worldwide searchable database • Request for specific cemeteries to be uploaded • Completely free Billiongraves.com

  8. Stay out of the glare • Early morning, afternoon, and overcast days are good • Get it all - Full names and dates, inscriptions • Keep it steady • Keep hands and feet outside the photo at all times Tips for taking graveyard photos

  9. Stay out of the glare

  10. Get it all: Wrong

  11. Get it all: Right

  12. Keep it steady: Wrong

  13. Keep it steady: Right

  14. Keep it steady: Very Wrong

  15. www.Billiongraves.com • www.Findagrave.com • www.Geneology.com • www.Familysearch.org • https://familysearch.org/blog/preserving-memories-billion-graves/?cid=fsHomeMemD2012 Website Resources

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