QR Code Press

QR codes to be used on Wyuka Cemetery grave markers

11/13/201211/12/2012 Julie Campbell

These barcodes will be found on tombstones at the Lincoln location. It has just been released that grave stones in the Wyuka Cemetery, located in Lincoln, Nebraska, will feature QR codes that will allow visitors to scan and discover more about the people who are buried there. Quick response codes have started popping up in burial sites all over the world. The popularity of QR codes for a broad spectrum of different purposes – including everything from memorial sites to magazine ads – has encouraged this cemetery to join the…

QR codes to be used on war graves in Oxford

11/09/201211/09/2012 Julie Campbell

The Botley Cemetery will be using mobile technology to help memorialize the deceased. A war cemetery in Oxford, England, will now be using QR codes on the graves to help to provide people with information about the deceased individuals who are buried there. The quick response barcodes can be scanned using smartphones and tablets. The QR codes will be installed on a panel at the Botley Cemetery war graves site so that visitors will be able to scan them and discover more about the veterans and others who have gone…

QR codes now popping up on gravestones in Denmark

09/07/201209/06/2012 Jennifer Goula

A trend that has been seen across the United States is now in Europe. Funeral homes and memorial companies have been adding QR codes to tombstones throughout the United States, and this trend has now caught on in Europe, as a Danish company adds the mobile barcodes to its grave markers. Quick response codes have proven to be a touching and practical addition to a gravesite. Not too long ago, the names that were marked on a gravestone had to be painstakingly researched and cross referenced by genealogists in order…