Thank you for pointing this out. The original plan was to make the U.S. Headstone Photos database be a one-stop location to view all U.S. headstone photos on Ancestry.com. We decided not to go that route, but apparently forgot to update the database description accordingly (at least the expanded part). The text you read has now been removed and the database title has been changed to "Selected U.S. Headstone Photos."

Further, no user-contributed headstone photos attached to trees were ever added to this database. The last update was in 2005. All of the photos were contributed by Allen Wheatley.

As far as uploading headstone photos to your family tree, that is a great practice and should be encouraged. I wish someone would take pictures of my ancestors headstones and upload them to Ancestry.com so that I could see them (I've never seen any, ever). What a meaningful service to descendants and fellow researchers user-uploaded headstones can be.

Thanks again for helping us improve the information on Ancestry.com.