Volunteer for Find a Grave

Are you a volunteer for Find A Grave? Today in my email inbox I got a request to take a photograph of a gravestone in a graveyard close by my house. The requests do not come that often but when they do I always get excited to help another fellow genealogist or family historian.

 

If you have not set up your Find A Grave account to be a volunteer it's quite simple. Go to your Profile Page. If you don't know how to get to your profile page then look on the homepage and in the far right corner when you are logged in you will see your name. Click on your name and it will take you to your profile page.

Once you get to your profile page click on the tab Contributor Tools. There you will see a box labeled Photo Volunteer. There are two choices. You can either request near your home which you put in your local zip code (that is what we call it here in America) location or request near your current location.

With the new Find A Grave App on your smart phone this is a great option. When you're at a cemetery let's say on vacation you just open your Find A Grave App then click local cemetery and then check to see if there are any photo requests. If there are just go take a picture and then upload. What's great about this is you get credit for that photo request and the good feeling of knowing you helped someone and hopefully someday someone will help you when you need a photo request. I think they call that good karma but I call it loving your neighbor as yourself.

If you are already Photo Volunteer I'd love to hear about some of your adventures. Please click on the comment link and tell me all about it. Thanks.

Until next time, happy hunting!
Kristina