Woodlawn Updates on Findagrave

2025 Data:

January:

Running tally for adding GPS to graves: 3,062 (+74 added by me, +1 someone else)

New Woodlawn Findagrave Memorials created: 415 (+6, 445 memorials total) 

Percentage of graves with GPS: 32%

Photo requests fulfilled: 2

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2024 Data:

January:

GPS data added to graves (by uploading photos): 1,873 (+338)

New Findagrave Pages created: 79

Percentage of graves with GPS: 21%


February:

Running tally for adding GPS to graves: 2,094 (+384)

New Findagrave Pages created: 294 (+51) 

Percentage of graves with GPS: 23%


[Broke foot at the end of February, still only adding photos taken in November] 


May:

Running tally for adding GPS to graves: 2,213 (93 added by me, 13 added by Terry Ward)

New Findagrave Pages created: 303 (+9) 

Percentage of graves with GPS: 24%


June:

Running tally for adding GPS to graves: 2384 (+229)

New Woodlawn Findagrave Pages created: 346 (+43, 373 pages total) 

Percentage of graves with GPS: 25%


July:

Running tally for adding GPS to graves: 2897 (+513)

New Woodlawn Findagrave Pages created: 402 (+60, 433 pages total) 

Percentage of graves with GPS: 30%


August-October: None added

GPS data added to one grave not by me (bringing the total to 2898 over all)

November:

Running tally for adding GPS to graves: 2987 (+89)

New Woodlawn Findagrave Pages created: 409 (+7, 440 pages total) 

Percentage of graves with GPS: 31%

Photo requests fulfilled: 4


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(End of) 2023 Data:

Photos with embedded GPS*: 1,584

*Started taking pictures with GPS in March of 2023. Woodlawn's percentage of graves with GPS coordinates was 3% when I started. This number is counted as one photo per person, but the actual number of photos is larger since some graves have multiple markers. Since it was calculated month by month, there's a chance that some people might have been photographed twice without me noticing, or have overlapped with other GPS-embedded photos. I'm keeping count differently in 2024, which should help with accuracy.




Location: West Virginia, USA

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