Following on from the success of the Graveyard Photographic Project, now 88% complete and from which we have over 143,000 photos, we launched a Graveyard Transcription Project on 16th September 2020.
Many people have asked how they can access these photos and by transcribing them we can update and correct our existing booklets and create new booklets. These booklets can then be available worldwide from our Online Shop which we launched in May 2020 and has already proved a success with family historians. Currently out of our 243 graveyards we only have Memorial Inscription books for 112 of these.
This task will take longer than taking the photos owing to the difficulty of reading some stones. However, transcribing the photos can be done by anyone, world-wide, in the comfort of your own home on your own computer. This does not need special programs.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
We are trying to create a snapshot of our Local History and we hope you will want to be part of it. We are still seeking people willing to spend a few hours to create a Word, or similar, file of transcriptions from the photos we have. This is a massive task, but with help from many of the individuals interested in Family History throughout the world we can create a wonderful archive.
If you are interested in helping with this project, please contact miproject@dgfhs.org.uk for further details.
We have published 4 new booklets and we have completed transcribing a further 196 Cemeteries, being 82% of the total, a further 12 Cemeteries are being transcribed, leaving 31 still to be started, sadly some of which are yet to be photographed.
We would like to thank all the volunteers who have so far contributed to this project, and it’s sister project the Graveyard Photographic Project.
We will continue to update this page to show our progress.
Thank you,
Graveyard Transcription Coordinator
13 January 2026