If you told me a decade ago that I'd become an expert in mapping cemeteries, I would've laughed and been very confused about ...

WASHINGTON — The faded headstones bear the family names of early town settlers: Barnum, Chapel, French and Pease. In the heart of October Mountain State Forest lies the West Branch Road Cemetery, ...

FAIRBURY, Ill. (AP) - A 21st century GPS device resting atop a tombstone from the 19th century connects with a satellite orbiting more than 12,000 miles above the Earth so high school students can map ...

MILFORD -- A s a professional cemetery mapper, David Palance spends a lot of time in New Hampshire's oldest burial grounds, unearthing clues to help researchers, historians and genealogists. Palance, ...

Nearly two decades ago, historian Amy Vacchio started researching two prominent families who lived at Rock Hall, a Colonial-era mansion, and their connection to Hempstead’s historic St. George’s ...

When Bowling Green’s first municipal cemetery, Repose Park – now known as Pioneer Cemetery – began filling up in the mid-19th century, the city established the massive Fairview Cemetery in 1865 a ...

With Fairview Cemetery rapidly running out of space, Bowling Green is in the final stages of a mapping project that could pave the way for the city to reclaim unused grave sites that were sold more ...

As Springdale Cemetery approaches its 200th year, its leaders have tapped some professionals to help maintain the site’s history. The Springdale Cemetery Association sought the help of Amanda Peters, ...

He got the idea for the cemetery mapping project after Roger McDowell of the Fairbury Veterans of Foreign Wars approached him about finding veterans' gravestones that were in need of repair. Quain ...