Cemeteries that have been operating for fifty or more years often hold historical interment records in formats ranging from handwritten ledger books to early generation database exports that are no longer accessible through current software. Digitizing these records for use in a modern grave location system requires transcribing or importing the data accurately, resolving inconsistencies in how names and lot identifiers were recorded across different periods, and linking the historical records to the current spatial map of the grounds.
CemSites provides historical record digitization support as part of grave location software implementations, giving cemeteries a structured process for converting legacy records into searchable data. The goal is a grave finder that can answer questions about interments dating back to the cemetery's founding. That depth of search capability matters to families with long connections to a cemetery and to genealogy researchers who rely on cemetery records as primary historical documentation.
