Billion Graves vs. Find a Grave vs. Interment.net - Ohio vs. OhioGravestones.org - etc. etc.

 Per: "BillionGraves" (besides "AI" there is "CI"!) 
 "Cemetery Intelligence".
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"FamilySearch" - BillionGraves vs. Find a Grave

Also:

FamilySearch - Wiki - Ohio Cemeteries
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Cyndi's List - Ohio Cemeteries Links
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Interment.net - Ohio
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Obituary Index by R.B. Hayes Presidential Library
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Ohio Gravestones.org
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"BillionGraves" Blog has published Part 2 of its three-part installment about identifying gravestone symbols

(Above photo taken by Linda Ellis 
at the South Murray Ridge Cemetery
Lorain County, Ohio)

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"CLUB, SOCIETY, AND FRATERNITY GRAVESTONE SYMBOLS: PART 2"

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"BillionGraves" is, in my opinion, growing but it falls short of having a billion graves posted on its website.  

Also, unlike "Find A Grave" which is still a free website; "BillionGraves" gives the options of joining as a free member or an upgrade to a paid subscriber account.
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That said, however, the BillionGraves Blog offers some interesting and useful posts worthy of a reader's time. This second part post on the subject of identifying symbols on grave markers or the medallion type flag holders (this is a 3-part series on the subject) is one that is quite useful to most of us who frequent cemeteries.  
Historical notes about the symbols and the organization they represent are with the corresponding sample photographs.  

This is certainly a handy reference guide to save and refer to whenever needed.   

Sharing a helpful Blog Post by BillionGraves about Military Flag Holders at cemeteries

I rarely use the website "BillionGraves" but do have a free account.  So, that is my reason for not sharing more links from "BillionGraves", however, "BillionGraves" has a Blog and its post of August 6, 2019: "Military Flag Holders at the Cemetery"caught my eye as one to spend some time reading and sharing with others. 

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You can check with the local county Veterans Services Office in Ohio about obtaining a veteran flag holder if one is permitted at the cemetery where the veteran is buried. 

Sharing a Blog Post from "Famicity" by Erin Harris

Sharing this blog post from Erin Harris on "Famicity" 

"Find the Final Resting Place of Your Ancestors Using BillionGraves"

BillionGraves

Quoting from Erin Harris:

"Finding death records and even visiting cemeteries to learn about our ancestors can be an important piece to genealogy research.

Sometimes visiting a cemetery just isn’t possible because of travel or other limitations.

Here’s a website that has a mission to document every headstone from every cemetery in the world in their searchable online database with an image and geographic location that is accessible to anyone, everywhere."

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Utilizing Both "Billion Graves" and "Google Local Guides" Leads to Better Locating and Documenting Obscure Cemeteries & Sharing Results with Other Researchers

I am pleased to share information and links from Kerry Porter who enjoys "raising awareness of obscure cemeteries" -- And she is doing a great job of it! 

Sharing information from Kerry about the advantages of using both "Billion Graves" and "Google Local Guide" programs:

"Billion Graves":

"A quick summary of why I use Billion Graves is quite simply that it helps me the best to find obscure cemeteries while on the road and document them efficiently. When I first started many years ago Find A Grave did not have a mobile app and was completely archaic in its ability to document and upload photos of cemeteries. Billion Graves is free. Billion Graves offers a great system that I have thoroughly enjoyed using and has never presented any problems for me.  

The find a cemetery feature of the app is the main way in which I locate obscure cemeteries in the country that are otherwise not known to sites such as Google. While locating and finding many of these obscure locations I do make a point to add the locations to Google maps to better help genealogy researchers and other people find them more efficiently. 

If you enjoy visiting and locating cemeteries the way I do I really recommend joining the Google Local Guide program which will help you better document and preserve the cemetery; it is through Google for general public knowledge that is better access by anyone."

"Google Local Guide":

"The Google Local Guide program is a fantastic free program offered by Google in which you can update, review, and even add new locations to the official Google Map and search engines.  I am a member of this program, and use it with my smartphone to update information on obscure historic cemeteries, and even add them to the Google Map to help other genealogy researchers find obscure cemeteries. 

Many older cemeteries are not on the Google Maps and this makes it harder for people to locate and research using the internet. There are also rewards with this program for frequent use, not to mention the great satisfaction of Simply helping other people. 

If you enjoy visiting cemeteries and have a SmartPhone, I highly recommend joining this program so you too can help document and share information about the cemeteries to the public." 

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Kerry is also posting her cemetery and gravestone photographs on "Instagram." 

Kerry's photographs on "Instagram"

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Thanking Kerry for sharing her useful tips that enable other researchers to also better locate, document, and share information about Ohio's obscure cemeteries that might otherwise remain lost and forgotten!