Memorial Day 2013

Monday, May 27

We spent the morning & afternoon driving to some cemeteries where we have ancestors buried.  Billiongraves.com has an app that you can download to your smartphone or ipad and then go and take pictures of headstones that can then be uploaded to their website with the gps location.  You can also transcribe the info on the headstones so that they can be searchable from their website and the church's familysearch.org website.  We started out at the Brigham City Cemetery and did some headstones there that were not on Billiongraves yet and then we drove farther north to a tiny town called Avon and actually took pictures of all of the headstones in the cemetery.  It took a little while but we got it done.  I have since uploaded the pictures and we have transcribed most of the headstones although we still have a few to do.  The hardest part was that with it being Memorial Day, a good number of the headstones had flowers or flags or something in front of them so we had to move them out of the way to get a clear shot of the headstone and then put them back.

After we were done with that we finally made it down to my parents' house for a late dinner (we took a lot longer that we thought we would) and then we had birthday cake for my brother-in-law's birthday.