The Australian Cemeteries Index website is an extensive resource for family history researchers. It's emphasis is to provide quality images of all inscriptions in each cemetery rather than just transcript lists. The ultimate goal is to photograph and index every headstone in Australia and to index every unmarked burial.
All contributions come from volunteer photographers and researchers from all over Australia. The site is funded by the advertising which appears on each page. The site is independent of any other non profit or commercial genealogy site, although advertising for those other sites may appear here.
The image at the top of our website pages is from Coonamble Cemetery.
The site was started by Reg and Jean McDonell in 2004, based on tens of thousands on headstone photos they had taken in hundreds of cemeteries.
Development of the site was done by Rob McDonell, who continues to maintain the site.
Since 2004 many other contributors have joined the project. It is only through their efforts that the website is what it is today.
During 2013-14 long time user Peter Olsen handled editorship and day-to-day running of the site, and significantly expanded it's size and function.