We are pleased to announce that the Global Cemeteries Project is reorganizing as a functional project and relaunching as the new Cemeterist Project! This change will help us to better align with our member badge, as well as serve as the foundation to better support WikiTree during the Year of Accuracy.
In order to meet WikiTree's global mission, and the goals of this project, our members will be those who volunteer to partake in a series of tasks in their local areas, from start to finish:
- photographing tombstones, markers, monuments, and memorials;
- transcribing the data contained within these photographs to ancestor profiles, while also ensuring that all duplicates are merged to the lowest number;
- honor our ancestors by creating biographies that conform to the WikiTree Style Guide, and are connected to the main WikiTree family tree;
- finding and adding additional reliable sources for the profiles we create or edit (e.g., Birth, Marriage, and Death Records; Census Records;);
- identifying and grouping these profiles through the use of relevant cemetery and regional categories; and
- documenting the history of cemeteries through the use of free-space pages.
If you have your camera in hand and are ready to start working your local cemeteries, please submit your 'Answer' below and let us know what area you will be documenting cemeteries in!
GCP Members, please submit a new request to join the Cemeterist Project!
