The book of the dead has grown out of a need to see an accessible, easy to use genealogy resource to catalogue gravestone monumental inscriptions and memorials in Wales, UK. The project involves photographing headstones in graveyards in South Wales, transcribing the data and publishing those transcripts online, together with an image of the headstone to which that transcript relates.
The transcript and image can be used as primary source material in your research into your family history, ideal if your ancestors came from Wales in the past.
The site is free to access, and is intended to always be that way, although some of the data sets are now available for sale to help with the running costs of the site. You can find these items on the Parish Chest, or on my Lulu store for immediate download.
Where available, this site also provides parish registers, records of births deaths and marriages, trade directories and topographical data.