This section of the website is for resource volunteers and anyone else who might like to help. The special volunteer menu above (and below) will let you see all the different pages in this part of the website.
The Gravestone Photographic Resource project is an attempt to provide a much needed on-line resource for family historians as well as making a photographic record of as many grave monuments as possible..
The initial project aim was to place online details of all UK gravestones or monuments that are currently legible for people born before 1901. However this restiction is not at all rigid and there are now many monuments on the site of people born in the twentith century. Indeed, grave monuments from the mid twentieth century (1930 - 1970) are the most popular photos requested. Thus volumteers are now encouraged take photos of all legible monuments but if time is limited then to just concentrate on the older ones.
Besides English graves, the project has now been extended to cover other countries and now includes grave monuments from:
All the work of the project is carried out by volunteeers. They take the photographic images and often produce the input that is used to update the project data base and web pages.
The project initially concentrated on East Anglia where its founder and main volunteer (Charles Sale) was based. He has already indexed many church and municipal cemetaries in English counties of Suffolk and Norfolk.
The timetable for other areas will be very dependant upon where other volunteers are based and how much time they can give to the project.
You can help by becoming a volunteer: have a look at the become a volunteer page.
The project is important because over time more and more grave monuments are being lost mainly through neglect and vandalism.
Have a look at the following pages to see how monuments become illegible because of a number of different factors: