Looking for a company the lists or does Gravesite coordinate listings

[lumpyfco]

Hello all,

 

Please excuse my inexperience on this topic. I recently landed a position in the funeral industry. In doing some research for my position, I found some articles on GPS mapping of gravesite/cemeteries for different states and countries. I am looking to find a company(s) that lists or tracks this type of information or who has products that would be used in this type of situation. I think when you come to a large cemetery like Arlington or a local large cemetery it would be very advantageous for some of our members to offer this type of service. Many people have a hard time finding some of the individual gravesites inside a large cemetery.

 

If anyone has some industry links or contact information I would be very appreciative.

 

Thanks,

Andy

[vagabond]

Unless your using a commercial grade of gps you could be as far of as forty feet or so, and if you were using a commercial grade unit and some one was to use your readings on something like we use for geocaching they could be anywhere from dead on to maybe forty feet or so off

I've logged a lot of my family using 3 different gps receivers, some days I might just be a few feet off other days I might be thirty or forty feet from the site

The best thing to do is go to the office and ask for a grave site map, that will give you the row number and the site number, or sometimes like 6 rows in from the road 14 graves down from the tree.

Now if your just looking for the cemetery that would work out OK

Hope this helps.

PS I believe a commercial unit like a Trimble will run at least $10.000

[+TXPathfinder]

Check with the County Clerk's office in the state. They usually have a lists of cemeteries. Also check with your local library's genealogy department. There are lists of cemeteries and graves on the internet. Try

http://www.cyndislist.com/ and of course most cemeteries can tell you where a certain grave is located.

[Neos2]

The people at Find-A-Grave have recently begun to suggest adding coordinates for the cemeteries, and they have a forum where people are listing coordinates to cemeteries as they find them.

 

Many genealogy and historical societies have advocated adding coordinates for cemteries and graves for years. Some genealogists automatically note the coordinates of their ancestor's graves when visiting a cemetery--even if the coordinates are off by many feet, a good gps can usually get you back to the right section of a large cemetery. It is one more tool to use to try to locate older graves, anyway.

 

I'd suggest looking at:

 

The US GEO GEN PROJECT

 

The Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project

[+Yno]

Unless your using a commercial grade of gps you could be as far of as forty feet or so, and if you were using a commercial grade unit and some one was to use your readings on something like we use for geocaching they could be anywhere from dead on to maybe forty feet or so off

I've logged a lot of my family using 3 different gps receivers, some days I might just be a few feet off other days I might be thirty or forty feet from the site

The best thing to do is go to the office and ask for a grave site map, that will give you the row number and the site number, or sometimes like 6 rows in from the road 14 graves down from the tree.

Now if your just looking for the cemetery that would work out OK

Hope this helps.

PS I believe a commercial unit like a Trimble will run at least $10.000

Dead on? Did you do that intentionally?