Archive for the ‘Cemeteries’ Category.
25th December 2006, 11:51 am
Cemeteries are invaluable repositories of genealogical information. GIS is an extremely useful tool in genealogy. What happens when we combine the two?
Check out the St. Michael’s Cemetery Project, one of a number of projects that maps out cemeteries using GIS. Go to the map, zoom around and use the information tool to get low-down on who’s buried where. Imagine if every cemetery had this type of tool! Wishful thinking…
I haven’t really looked to see if there’s a list of cemeteries with GIS, but if I can’t find one then I’ll scour the net looking for everything I can find an provide a list. This is extremely useful and people need to be able to find such tools.
4th December 2006, 12:12 pm
The Iowa Gravestone Photo Project is an awesome, awesome thing! I may be a bit biased, however. It turns out that some kind volunteer has photographed every tombstone in Bethel Cemetery outside of Logan. This cemetery is the final resting place of over four generations of McKeans. Go ahead - do a search for McKean in Harrison County!
These are the kinds of projects that everyone who is passionate about genealogy should be involved in! Think of how great it would be if you could find a photograph of almost any tombstone you were looking for. There’s also projects like Family Old Photos and others. All we need are volunteers to take photographs or scan old photographs or transcribe old documents, and so on.
