Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

FAQ topics

1. About the Gravestone Photographic Resource project (GPR)
2. Cemeteries
3. Comments and help
4. Damage to Grave Monuments
5. Graves
6. Navigation
7. Other researchers
8. Photographing grave monuments
9. Researching names
10. Volunteer FAQs

About the Gravestone Photographic Resource project (GPR)

1. Amount of detail displayed on the GPR website
2. How often is the index updated?
3. How can I help the gravestone photographic resource project?
4. How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error on the database?
5. Is the GPR a primary or secondary genealogical source?
6. Main database tables used by the GPR
7. What is the Gravestone Photographic Resource project?
8. When and why was the GPR created?
9. Who owns the copyright of gravestone photographic resource images?
10. Why are the new English counties not listed on the GPR?
11. Why is there no charge?

Navigation

1. How do I move around the Gravestone Photographic Resource (GPR) website?
2. What are the differences between the lists on GPR cemetery pages?
3. What special lists are available within the GPR?

Researching names

1. How can I find a name if I only have part of it?
2. How can I find all the references for a particular name within all the cemeteries in a city, town or village?
3. How can I find out if there are any entries in the resource for a particular name?
4. How can I list the latest One Name Family additions?
5. How can I search for a newly added surname?
6. How can I search for a particular maiden name?
7. How can I search for a particular surname?
8. How can I see if there are different spellings of a name held within the resource?
9. How can the GPR help to resolve research DEAD ENDS?
10. How do I find a family group in a cemetery?
11. How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error about a name?
12. How do I use the quick search system?
13. How does the GPR find maiden names?
14. If there are a huge number of names for the surname I am research, how do I make the results more manageable?
15. Is the GPR a primary or secondary genealogical source?
16. What do I do if there are no results for the full name I input?
17. What does the GPR mean by family name and how do I find them?
18. Why are all the names on a grave monument recorded?
19. Why are some names listed many times?
20. Why are there no dates on some records?
21. Why are there not more records for gravestones from the 1900s?
22. Why do the dates on the index not match the dates I already know about?
23. Why is there a black thumbnail image?

Other researchers

1. How can I find out if anyone else has requested the image I am interested in?
2. How can I found out who else is researching families within a particular cemetery?

Images

1. Can I get a copy of a tombstone memorial image?
2. Gravestone memorial images
3. How do I add a memorial image to the GPR?
4. How do I send photos to the GPR?
5. How do I view GPR images I have requested?
6. What do I do if the image I requested is not displayed or is the wrong grave?
7. What is the size of monument images stored by the GPR?
8. Why is there a black thumbnail image?
9. Why are there so few images for some churchyards?
10. Why is there no image for a grave monument?

Cemeteries

1. Are there different types of cemeteries listed on the GPR?
2. Are there different types of War Memoral on GPR
3. How can I find a particular cemetery or churchyard?
4. How can I find all the references for a particular name within all the cemeteries in a city, town or village?
5. How can I get a particular cemetery added to the projects database?
6. How do I find a family group in a cemetery?
7. How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error with a cemetery?
8. Why are there different lists on cemetery pages?
9. Why are there no cemeteries from my locality indexed?
10. Why are there so few photographs for some churchyards?
11. Why is there no photograph of a grave monument?

Graves

1. Can I get a copy of a tombstone memorial image?
2. Gravestone memorial images
3. How do I add a tombstone memorial image to the GPR?
4. How do I find the location of a grave in a cemetery?
5. How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error on the database?
6. What are the different names for grave stones?
7. What are the relationship codes used within the GPR?
8. What is the oldest grave monument within the GPR?
9. What size of the grave monument images are stored by the GPR?
10. Why are all the names on a grave monument recorded?
11. How to take photographs of grave monuments?
12. Tips for taking photographs of grave monuments?

Damage to Grave Monuments

1. cemetery change of use
2. damage
3. frost damage
4. ivy damage
5. lichen and moss damage
6. mechanical damage
7. plant damage
8. water errosion
9. wind errosion
10. vandalism

Photographing grave monuments

1. How to take photographs of grave monuments?
2. Tips for taking photographs of grave monuments?

Comments and help

1. How do I add a comment or help request?
2. How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error on the database?
3. What do I do if the image I requested is not displayed or is the wrong grave?

Volunteer FAQs

1. Are there any hints on how to take grave monument photos?
2. How do I become a volunteer?
3. How do I index the photos I have taken?
4. How do I send photos to the GPR?
5. What do volunteer do?
6. What type of camera do I need?
7. Who owns the copyright of the photos I take and send to GPR?