Historical grounds
A weathered stone is a record with a deadline.
Marble from the 1800s gives up its lettering to a century of rain. Wooden markers rot. Pioneer plots get mowed flat and forgotten. Once a name is gone off the stone, and nobody wrote it down, it is simply gone.
What a capture preserves
The grounds exactly as they stand today.
Every marker, in place
Not a transcription someone typed years ago — the stones themselves, in position, at the resolution they are legible at now.
The layout itself
Section boundaries, rows, and unmarked ground. On old cemeteries the layout is often the only surviving record of who is where.
Reachable by researchers
Genealogists and historical societies can search and cite it without driving out and walking rows in the heat.
Dated evidence
A capture is timestamped. Compare it against the next one and you can show a board exactly what a decade of weather cost you.
On our map
12,802 cemeteries flagged as historically significant.
These carry a heritage designation or their own historical record. It is a floor, not a ceiling — thousands of small burial grounds are significant and carry no flag at all.
There is a cemetery near you losing its stones right now.
Historical societies, descendants’ associations, and county boards: tell us which grounds are at risk and we will tell you what it takes to record them.