BillionGraves

I really enjoyed participating in a service project to photograph gravestones. The actual photography was easy. I couldn’t get my selfie stick to work with the app. We had a 5 level mausoleum to photograph, so it was tough to get up over 12 feet to see the top rows. I also had to get help to verify my account, which the tech support was able to do without any complications. Thank you for this app! I’ll be looking for a way to do this again.

It’s an interesting app, however it’s search function is flawed. When filling out the criteria for the search you might as well be searching for Santa Claus. Because if you put in the last name. state, city and county of the deceased you get the entire state or at least a subset of it. The app developers should be willing to give people accurate information and not fill the screen with tombstone images that aren’t accurate. The app should come back with this: “Sorry this grave has not been photographed. Would you like to have one of our volunteer grave photographers take a picture of your loved ones gravesite? If so, please provide your loved one’s detailed information and we will get the word out.” Then, when a volunteer is photographing a gravesite they know they are truly helping a family’s memory continue. Your current database search engine for a deceased is nothing short of a disappointing experience. It should be proactive. Inviting each one to ask for volunteer help in the matter. And not give up in disappointment! This app could be an fantastic family experience if I was developing it. Or, if you are willing to really take some advice from an experienced application developer. Family grave history doesn’t need to be lost! Denny H. Naples, Fl

I’ve been working on my family tree for years. I was excited to find this app. While the cemetery I need is on here. There’s no real easy way to search and some of the uploaded images are very bad with fingers in them taken from weird angles and there’s no way for me to know which images I’ve already looked at on the map. A full list and better images would be very useful. Also away to know what images I’ve already looked at. It’s great having pictures of the grave markers to research and I really hope to be able to utilize this app in my research.

This app has too many bugs to mention. First one is pretty lame though: clicking on “Dashboard” the app closes. Seriously? Apps up to date, as latest build of 2 months ago. The app does not scale typeface properly if you are not using the default font size. Some users, myself included, prefer a larger font, but you cannot read it as it overlays on top on the underlying sentence. I’ll have to continue to use the web version. Kind of a hassle. I’ve recorded hundreds of headstones and prefer ease and speed.

I only gave it Three stars as I’m having trouble negotiating app. I take pictures that don’t show. Went back to cemetery and retook which worked. Today took 3 pictures that I can see on phone but I do not see on website. One is picture of cemetery gate and one is a repeat pic that could not be transcribed before—cannot find and when I try to ask for help, I am directed to pages and pages of questions!!