I am not sure what to think of the new Transcribe feature. Sure it helps get names into the system, but I feel that it promotes lazy documentation.

I tried using Billion Graves (mobile based grave logging system). I got really annoyed with the horrible quality of peoples pictures for markers and the lack of any desire to transcribe markers.

Since I found FindAGrave, I have always thought of it as the quality information/documentation source vs others.

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My biggest pet peeve is improperly collected or cataloged data. That is why I love this project so much. It is neat to bust out the Ancestry.com account and do some sleuthing on a family to complete a memorial but I really just like the peace of going to a cemetery, taking a ton of photos, and coming home and uploading/transcribing them.

I try to fulfill requests from time to time but I mainly pick a cemetery and start methodically logging the entire thing. This way, I have photos and GPS coordinates of all graves.

If anyone can assist with stones that need translation, it would be very helpful. I have created a virtual cemetery of stones that I cannot translate. I haven't bothered with Spanish stones because Google Translate works like a champ with it. The tough ones are the Middle East and Asian ones because I cannot identify their character sets to even attempt a translation.

##Please do not take offense to me sending you the GPS location of a grave. This is public information, I just happened to go to the site and collect it. It is very annoying going to a large cemetery and not being able to find a marker. The GPS gives you about a 40 foot circle of where to look. It ultimately aides your family, current generation, and future generations (who will most likely be plugged in and not know what a paper map is).##

I am not sure what to think of the new Transcribe feature. Sure it helps get names into the system, but I feel that it promotes lazy documentation.

I tried using Billion Graves (mobile based grave logging system). I got really annoyed with the horrible quality of peoples pictures for markers and the lack of any desire to transcribe markers.

Since I found FindAGrave, I have always thought of it as the quality information/documentation source vs others.

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My biggest pet peeve is improperly collected or cataloged data. That is why I love this project so much. It is neat to bust out the Ancestry.com account and do some sleuthing on a family to complete a memorial but I really just like the peace of going to a cemetery, taking a ton of photos, and coming home and uploading/transcribing them.

I try to fulfill requests from time to time but I mainly pick a cemetery and start methodically logging the entire thing. This way, I have photos and GPS coordinates of all graves.

If anyone can assist with stones that need translation, it would be very helpful. I have created a virtual cemetery of stones that I cannot translate. I haven't bothered with Spanish stones because Google Translate works like a champ with it. The tough ones are the Middle East and Asian ones because I cannot identify their character sets to even attempt a translation.

##Please do not take offense to me sending you the GPS location of a grave. This is public information, I just happened to go to the site and collect it. It is very annoying going to a large cemetery and not being able to find a marker. The GPS gives you about a 40 foot circle of where to look. It ultimately aides your family, current generation, and future generations (who will most likely be plugged in and not know what a paper map is).##