Connecting a Cemetery’s Listings to Historical Society Holdings

Oh, what a terrific story. Cemeteries putting their plots in a database is pretty common, but you don’t hear much about cemeteries linking their listings to holdings at the local historical society. “Huling’s grave at St. Peter’s Church on Second Street is easy to find thanks to the efforts of the Lewes Historical Society. In the summer of 2003, the organization embarked on the titanic task of cataloging every single gravestone in the Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred, from well-preserved gravestones in well-known church cemeteries to lesser-known, sometimes hard-to-find stones in family plots in more rural areas of the Cape Region…. The project is now moving into a new phase, as the historical society is building a new website that will connect the graves to photographs, letters and other artifacts in the society’s collection.”