A word about the effort some organisations, trusts have gone to assisting family and history researchers.
Just a couple of examples from afar.
Old St Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe, is a former church in the village of Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire in England.
The original building on the site was a chapel of ease called Eastfield Chapel, which was built in 1529. This was damaged during the Reformation, and repaired in 1536. The chapel was rebuilt as a church in Neoclassical style in 1775. It was then replaced in the late 19th century by a new church a short distance away.
The old church was then used as a mortuary chapel. It was severely damaged by a storm in the 1960s and its fabric deteriorated and the church suffered from vandalism. Now only the tower remains.
The tower is square in cross-section and constructed in hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings.
On the west face is a round-headed window with a circular window above. At belfry level is inscribed stone taken from an earlier church on the site. At the top of the tower is an octagonal cupola with a ball finial.
Inside the tower are an inscribed stone dated 1529, benefaction boards, and a monument from 1830 designed by Richard Westmacott.
In its accompanying churchyard there are over 11,000 grave sites.
and a Friends Facebook page, and its churchyard cemetery has headstone photographs and transcriptions.
While the Prospect Cemetery in Toronto has affiliated with Google Maps to guide people in finding graves. Especially helpful in large cemeteries (148,000 burial records have been indexed for the cemetery), and when the cemetery concerned is halfway across the world.
There's also a little video of where Toronto's original Potters Field cemetery was located in now downtown Toronto.
This is what just two different cemeteries have been able to achieve by embracing a number of digital initiatives.
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