VeteranGraves.com Tutorial How to Register as a Volunteer, Add Cemeteries, and Add Graves

VeteranGraves.com is where we will work together as Volunteers to document and memorialize every veteran grave in fine military detail. VeteranGraves.com was created to be easy to use, intuitive, and comprehensive to enable patriotic people who want to honor military heroes of our past to ensure No Veteran Ever Dies. Follow the three step process to join us in this effort to remember what they did for us by Registering as a Volunteer, Adding Cemeteries in your local community, and Adding Graves of veterans buried in your local community Cemeteries.

Encourage your family and friends to Register at VeteranGraves.com to be a part of this worthy cause to maintain the graves of military veterans. Take your time and really get to know each veteran buried beneath the forgotten veteran headstones covered in dark biological growth and grimy filth. VeteranGraves.com is the web site where you can share every detail about what the military veteran did while in service to his or her country. Slow down, do your research, and give your best effort to honor each veteran Grave you add to VeteranGraves.com. Each veteran sacrificed in one way or another to defend the country we too often take for granted.

Once you Register to become a VeteranGraves.com Volunteer, you can begin Adding Cemeteries. Take your time, do your homework, make some phone calls, whatever it takes, to become familiar with the Cemetery and the people who watch over it. Most older Cemeteries will not have a sign posted to inform you about the contact person, the history, and the story. It is critically important for us to discover the Cemetery steward, because we need permission to honor veterans with clean veteran headstones, kempt Graves, and grave flags. Local funeral home directors and local monument company owners are fantastic resources for information about local cemeteries. Call these people and ask them if they know who is in charge of a certain Cemetery. More times than not, they will know, and give you the contact person's name and phone number.

Once you Add a Cemetery, you can then begin Adding Graves of veterans buried in that Cemetery. Pretend you are the Guard for this Unknown Soldier, and take it upon yourself to ensure your veteran becomes KNOWN! Headstones have limited space for etched information, so dig deep into the veteran's past to discover the many fascinating details. Sources include, Google search results, Wikipedia, Ancestry.com, people who have the veteran in their family tree online, Findagrave.com, people who have added photos to a veteran's Memorial on Findagrave.com, Newspapers.com, genealogy rooms at local public libraries, FOLD3.com, death certificates that you can order from the state department of health, and more.

I hope you enjoy becoming a Volunteer with VeteranGraves.com and hope your efforts to honor hometown military heroes will bring you a newfound sense of purpose. It is vitally important that we work together with a sense of urgency to compile the military service stories of each veteran.