Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Church of England to launch a 'Google Maps for graves' within five years enabling family historians to search for burial records and locations in an online database

From The Daily Mail-

Thousands of cemeteries across the UK will be imaged and mapped over the next five years to create a comprehensive database of British burial sites. 

The Church of England project hopes to immortalise the tombs of millions of people buried in Anglican graveyards as well as those interred on unconsecrated land.

Maps and photographs will be uploaded alongside burial records in a searchable database at some point before 2026. 

Volunteers from the Church of England have partnered with Historic England, which has injected £250,000 in funding, and private company Atlantic Geomatics is providing the technology and expertise.  

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