TheGenealogist adds more than 55,000 new Headstone records
TheGenealogist has added to its expanding International Headstone Collection with some interesting and useful new searchable images of gravestones.
These enable family historians to see details that have been recorded about their ancestors by the monumental masons in various churches and cemeteries. All the records are fully searchable with transcripts of the inscriptions that help to decipher some of the more weathered memorials.
The headstone records released cover 174 new churchyards or cemeteries and include submissions from their many prolific volunteers. The International Headstone Collection is an ongoing project where every headstone photographed or transcribed earns credits for volunteers.
The credits are used by volunteers to help support their hobby spending them on subscriptions at TheGenealogist.co.uk or products from GenealogySupplies.com. If you would like to join them, you can find out more about the scheme at: https://ukindexer.co.uk/headstone/
The unusual, but informative, plaque on the Penruddocke family tomb at St Michael’s, Compton Chamberlayne
These new records are all available as part of the Diamond Subscription at TheGenealogist.
You can read TheGenealogist’s article: Headstones and Church Memorial plaques a fantastic resource for family historians