Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Please note that there is also useful information in the How To Things with GPR section.
FAQ topics
About the Gravestone Photographic Resource project (GPR)
- Amount of detail displayed on the GPR website
- How often is the index updated?
- How can I help the gravestone photographic resource project?
- How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error on the database?
- Is the GPR a primary or secondary genealogical source?
- Main database tables used by the GPR
- What is the Gravestone Photographic Resource project?
- When and why was the GPR created?
- Who owns the copyright of gravestone photographic resource images?
- Why are the new English counties not listed on the GPR?
- Why is there no charge?
Navigation
Researching names
- How can I find a name if I only have part of it?
- How can I find all the references for a particular name within all the cemeteries in a city, town or village?
- How can I find out if there are any entries in the resource for a particular name?
- How can I list the latest One Name Family additions?
- How can I search for a newly added surname?
- How can I search for a particular maiden name?
- How can I search for a particular surname?
- How can I see if there are different spellings of a name held within the resource?
- How can the GPR help to resolve research DEAD ENDS?
- How do I find a family group in a cemetery?
- How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error about a name?
- How do I use the quick search system?
- How does the GPR find maiden names?
- If there are a huge number of names for the surname I am research, how do I make the results more manageable?
- Is the GPR a primary or secondary genealogical source?
- What do I do if there are no results for the full name I input?
- What does the GPR mean by family name and how do I find them?
- Why are all the names on a grave monument recorded?
- Why are some names listed many times?
- Why are there no dates on some records?
- Why are there not more records for gravestones from the 1900s?
- Why do the dates on the index not match the dates I already know about?
- Why is there a black thumbnail image?
Other researchers
Images
- Can I get a copy of a tombstone memorial image?
- Gravestone memorial images
- How do I add a memorial image to the GPR?
- How do I send photos to the GPR?
- How do I view GPR images I have requested?
- What do I do if the image I requested is not displayed or is the wrong grave?
- What is the size of monument images stored by the GPR?
- Why is there a black thumbnail image?
- Why are there so few images for some churchyards?
- Why is there no image for a grave monument?
Cemeteries
- Are there different types of cemeteries listed on the GPR?
- Are there different types of War Memoral on GPR
- How can I find a particular cemetery or churchyard?
- How can I find all the references for a particular name within all the cemeteries in a city, town or village?
- How can I get a particular cemetery added to the projects database?
- How do I find a family group in a cemetery?
- How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error with a cemetery?
- Why are there different lists on cemetery pages?
- Why are there no cemeteries from my locality indexed?
- Why are there so few photographs for some churchyards?
- Why is there no photograph of a grave monument?
Graves
- Can I get a copy of a tombstone memorial image?
- Gravestone memorial images
- How do I add a tombstone memorial image to the GPR?
- How do I find the location of a grave in a cemetery?
- How do I notify the GPR that I have discovered an error on the database?
- What are the different names for grave stones?
- What are the relationship codes used within the GPR?
- What is the oldest grave monument within the GPR?
- What size of the grave monument images are stored by the GPR?
- Why are all the names on a grave monument recorded?
- How to take photographs of grave monuments?
- Tips for taking photographs of grave monuments?