Share a photograph
A photograph of a gravestone can give a name back to someone. Choose the cemetery, then send as many photographs as you like.
What makes a useful photograph
- Fill the frame with the stone. One grave per photograph. If the inscription runs onto a second slab, send both.
- Let the light fall across the carving. Early morning or late afternoon sun throws a shadow into the letters and makes an eroded stone readable. Flat midday light is the hardest to read.
- Add the row or plot number if you can see one. It is what lets us put a name back on a map.
We never publish a name we cannot read on the stone. If the inscription is broken or worn away, send the photograph anyway: an unreadable stone is still a grave, and it belongs in the record.