Gravestone Photographic Resource

What can you get from the GPR website

1. List of all the grave monuments within a cemetery that were legible when they were photographed by a GPR volunteer.
2. See all the names mentioned on a grave monument together with their relationships to each other.
3. List all the cemeteries that have been photographed and indexed by the GPR.
   These can be viewed by
   • country
   • state
   • county
   • city, town or village
4. Get a high quality copy of the photograph(s) taken of a specific grave monument.
5. See all the high quality images you have ever requested.
6. Provide help in your research using the website FAQ and How To systems.

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What is special about the GPR

1. It is FREE!
2. You do not need to login to use it.
3. It has SEARCH facilities that make it easy to find a specific person.
4. Helps you find different spellings of surnames stored on the GPR database. For instance, you can see all the versions of the surname Nickel: (e.g. Nichol, Nicholl, Nickolls, Nichols, Nickalls, Nickel, Nickell, Nickels, Nickle, Nickles, Nickoll, Nickolls, Nichol, Nicole, Nicoll, Nicolls).
5. Lets you see all the records for a specific SURNAME, MAIDEN NAME or FAMILY NAME (A family name is where there is a surname as the last forename.)
6. Shows you all the different surnames stored in its database.
7. Helps you find the location of a specific grave within a cemetery.

What is special about grave monument photographs?

1. Grave monument photographs are a PRIME SOURCE for use in genealogy research.
2. They often contain information not available anywhere else.
3. The relationships given on grave monuments often resolve research DEAD ENDS.
4. Helps you find an ancestor's child who you know nothing about because the child was born and died between census dates.
5. Helps you find the burial location and the exact date of death (or burial).
6. Helps you find unknown details about a man's wife(s).

What do people say about the GPR?

You can see what people think about the GPR by looking at their comments.

The latest comment was added to the website on 22/11/2020 at 01:22:

Title: Janet Fyfe McLachlan

Comment: Thanks very much for the information on my grandmother's grave: Cemetery name: Dean 2e Cemetery location: Lothian Scotland GPR cemetery number: 601 Iain

There is also a system on the website that allows you to ask for help with your research:

The latest help request was added to the website on 28/10/2020 at 01:46:

Title: incorrect image

Comment: Your service is amazing and I am really grateful to all involved. However the image you have for the grave of Mary Ethel Thompson is not correct. It is an image of the grave of other family members. To put it another way images of graves 24090 and 24059 are of the same grave. Mary Ethel Thompson died and was born in 1890, her parents were William E Thompson 1850-1931 and Mary Ann Thompson 1854-1931.

What else can you get from the GPR?

Besides having grave monument photographs, the GPR also has an image collection of most of its cemeteries, churches and war memorials.

Who runs the GPR?

The GPR is run by Charles Sale. He set it up in 1998 and has written all the code used by the website.

In the beginning, Charles did everything but now he has many volunteers who photogaphs cemeteries. These photographs are then used to extract all the names and other details mentioned on the monument.

To make the GPR even better, please think about photographing your local churchyard or cemetery. It is easy to register as a new volunteer.