I am constantly coming across wartime snapshots of German gravesites well detailed eg. I can see the name, dob, location of death and unit of the fallen German solider.
Many of these are not listed on the German war graves commission site when I search for them.
Do you reckon they would appreciate scans of the gravesites or the data from the snapshot to help with their database ?
Has anyone ever tried to help them out this way ?
They could fill in some massive gaps in their database if they assigned a staff member to buy up all gravemarker snaps. They are not exepensive and are very common, and like I mentioned earlier, a great percentage of these deaths are not already accounted for on their site.
Even though most German wartime graves were not permanent at least it would be some info, and most of the time when graves were transferred to permanent locations, they were still in the same locale.
Many of these are not listed on the German war graves commission site when I search for them.
Do you reckon they would appreciate scans of the gravesites or the data from the snapshot to help with their database ?
Has anyone ever tried to help them out this way ?
They could fill in some massive gaps in their database if they assigned a staff member to buy up all gravemarker snaps. They are not exepensive and are very common, and like I mentioned earlier, a great percentage of these deaths are not already accounted for on their site.
Even though most German wartime graves were not permanent at least it would be some info, and most of the time when graves were transferred to permanent locations, they were still in the same locale.
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