Halloween Fun - Finding Dead People

Visiting a graveyard is a spooky, sure to be fun activity with friends and family and a huge help for family history research. Kids love the headstone hunt! Instagram: ancestrybyaimee Facebook: @aimeecross2

Headstone hunting is a blast! Kids love the assignment to find a family name and are so excited when they find the grave stone in question! End the event with fun Halloween food and you have a sure winner!

What better way to celebrate Halloween than to perform service with your friends and family! Family's appreciate seeing photographs of their ancestor's headstones and genealogists rely on the information in their genealogy research. The information provided extends family trees and can help determine ancestry. This is a great way to make family search fun!

Instructions are outlined to photograph grave markers for FindAGrave and BillionGraves. All you need is a cellphone or a tablet!

0:00 Spooky music intro
0:53 Fun and service??
1:00 Genealogists need headstone information
1:39 Finding dead people
2:01 Find A Grave website origins
2:55 How Find A Grave works
3:55 BillionGraves website origins and improvements
5:10 How you can help
5:55 How to answer a photo request
6:20 Group photographing
6:48 How to use Find A Grave app
8:11 How to use Billion Grave app
9:00 At the cemetery
10:12 Photographing a grave stone

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Cemetery Photo by Scott Rodgerson on Unsplash www.unsplash.com/s/photos/cemetery?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText

Organ photograph by Uoaei1, CC BY-SA 4.0 www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dramatic Organ Music by InspectorJ www.freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/402095

Opening music "Something Elated" by Broke for Free.
www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Something_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Something_EP_-_05_Something_Elated

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