If you're frustrated by some of the aspects of researching your family tree - and want to help out others, the website BillionGraves.com is where you can do just that, from the comfort of your own armchair.
BillionGraves.com is a worldwide graveyard website where some people take photos of graves in a churchyard and they can either transcribe them themselves, or leave them on the site for other people to transcribe. This is a great idea and it is an active website where thousands of graves have already been photographed and transcribed.
I transcribe gravestones for BillionGraves.com when they're either graveyards where my ancestors and their relations might be buried, or where I know the local area - I select these because they're of most interest to me, so I am more motivated to keep checking for new graves to transcribe. But you can pick any graveyard for any reason.
All you do is sign up for an account, login and start transcribing. There's no commitment, you could simply do one/day if you have low enthusiasm levels! Over the coming years this will turn into a great resource. Already there's a new feature whereby if you're transcribing a grave it suggests results from the LDS website at familysearch.org as possible matches for the grave and if you can see that they are the same person you can "connect" the grave directly to the online record with just one click.
Try it and see what you think!
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