The Global Cemetery Project is looking for members to join us!
Do you enjoy photographing gravestones? Would you like to see WikiTree reach its goal of documenting the final resting place of as many ancestors across the world as possible and sourcing them on profiles? Then the Global Cemeteries Project is for you!
The goal of the Global Cemeteries Project is to photograph gravestones and monuments, transcribe them, cite them, and get them on to the profile page so as to document the final resting place of our ancestors using original content.
There are many style and policy reasons for our community and the Global Cemeteries Project to want to present original biographies and content, not simply copied text from other websites such as FindAGrave and BillionGraves. Original content is the type of data and information (e.g. biographies, images, research, etc.) that you create yourself, using completely original elements.
The tasks of the Global Cemeteries Project include:
1) Photograph tombstones and add them to existing profiles
2) Create and maintain basic free space pages for all known cemeteries within each team's area
3) Establish and maintain a simple, easy-to-use, and useful category structure for all cemeteries
4) Increase the number of documented burials on WikiTree and improve existing profiles
The project is divided into teams, each headed up by a Project Coordinator. Most of these teams are geographical, and are sub-divided by country and again by region/state/country/province etc.
What does a Cemeterist actually do? HERE is a link!
We NEED you! Many of our local teams around the world are in need of field workers. If you are interested in a particular locale, then let us know! Also, we are in need of a membership coordinator who will answer the G2G post for membership who will also update the teams’ pages.
If you are interested (and I hope you are!), please ANSWER THIS POST, not comment! We look forward to hearing from YOU!
