Sunday, May 14, 2017
Gravesite plunder
Yesterday, we participated in an Eagle Scout project that was most interesting. We all downloaded the app "Billion Graves" on our phones, then took pictures of the headstones at a local cemetery. The app recorded the picture and the GPS location. Then the records will be indexed so that they are searchable for those that are trying to find their ancestors. It was fascinating. I didn't read all of the headstones, but a few caught my eye. We found headstones with Raiders football team logos, Harry Potter, temples, music notes and instruments. It was interesting to see how a simple decoration or pictures could really tell you a lot about the person. We enjoyed doing the project. I thought that the information that you could get from a headstone was much greater than just names and dates, it was like ancestry plunder and spoils!
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