Veteran Graves Help

This is a group effort, so we appreciate your willingness to get involved! If you don't find what you need here in the HELP section, please reach out to us via CONTACT US. We also welcome your feedback and ideas for improvement!

Let's begin with some TERMINOLOGY for VeteranGraves.com:

Visitor
Someone who visits and uses the site without Registering.

Volunteer
Someone who Registers on the site to participate:

  1. enter a cemetery into the system
  2. enter a veteran grave into the system
  3. upload photos
  4. suggest edits
  5. adopt a veteran grave

Adopt
When someone commits to personally caring for a veteran's physical grave:

  1. keep the veteran headstone clean
  2. install a flag holder
  3. display a grave flag 365 days a year
  4. pull weeds
  5. pick up debris from atop a veteran grave
  6. organize the hiring of a professional to reset a veteran headstone

Sponsor
Someone who pays to help care for 1 or more veteran graves.

Grave
Online memorial for a veteran on VeteranGraves.com.

Reset
Digging up a headstone or grave marker that is sunken, leaning, or fallen and then installing the stone to proper height, plumb, and level.

Grave Flag
Small American flag with dimensions 8" tall x 12" wide mounted on a 24" long stick.

Flag Holder
A device installed in a cemetery next to a veteran grave marker for the purpose of displaying a grave flag upright while protecting the flag from lawn maintenance equipment.

Cemetery Contact
A person who personally looks after a cemetery, is capable of answering questions, and has the authority to grant permission.

Family Member
A person who has a familial relationship with the deceased veteran.

Stone
A headstone or grave marker.

Headstone
Vertical orientation, above ground, upright, etched stone, marking a burial site.

Grave Marker
Horizontal orientation, ground level, flat, etched stone or bronze plaque, marking a burial site.

Visitors can visit the VeteranGraves.com site and view Graves.

A Visitor must become a Volunteer by Registering in order to: Add Cemeteries, Add Graves, upload photos, and make edits.

Add Cemetery:

  • Click on the "Add Cemetery" button.
  • Step 1 is to enter the required and requested information into the data fields.
  • Step 2 is to upload Photos:
    • Click the "Add Photos" button.
    • We have requested specific photos from specific vantage points.
    • Please pay close attention to the description of the photo description before selecting a photo to insert in that spot.
    • BE SURE TO CLICK THE "SAVE AND CONTINUE" button before uploading the next photo!
  • Step 3 is to add Cemetery Contacts
    • Click the "Add Contact" button
    • Enter the contact person information into the data fields
    • You can add more than one contact, so answer "Yes" for the Primary Contact Person.

Add Grave:

  • Click on the "Add Grave" button.
  • Step 1 is to choose a Cemetery existing in the system.
    • If the Cemetery is not already in the system, then you will have to Add Cemetery.
  • Step 2 is to click on the Cemetery name hotlink.
  • Step 3 is to enter the Veteran's primary identification information.
  • Step 4 is to enter additional detail information by clicking the "Edit Grave" button.
    • On the left side of the Grave page for the Veteran, you will see hotlinks to four categories including:
      • Veteran
      • Grave Info
      • Military
      • Hero Story
    • Click on each of these four hotlinks to access the various data fields relevant to a military veteran.
  • Step 5 is to upload Photos:
    • Click the "Add Photos" button.
    • We have requested specific photos from specific vantage points.
    • Please pay close attention to the description of the photo description before selecting a photo to insert in that spot.
    • BE SURE TO CLICK THE "SAVE AND CONTINUE" button before uploading the next photo!