Westport Historic Private Cemeteries Online Burial Records

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Westport Historic Private Cemeteries Online Burial Records
Its always encouraging to reminisce your past generation. Looking at your family tree gives you the inspiration you need to live your life and add another page to your family history. Try to discover new ideas that could preserve and honor your family genealogy. One way to make certain they are remembered is to preserve their burial data. This could be useful for future generations to know their family history especially when tombstones become difficult to read. The idea was first practiced by genealogists and historians in the town of Westport, Massachusetts. They gathered all the data from town folks, filed them and stored the documents in an online database which was later known as the Westport Historic Private Cemeteries. The project took years to be fully operational and brought together a number of loyal volunteers to make the project a success. The database contains information on 102 cemeteries comprising 1,497 burials, and can be searched by name, cemetery, and other options. It also features a special section for veterans, who’re listed by the conflicts in which they served, from the Revolutionary War to the Korean War. As the site interests more people doing investigations about their family history, the data was placed on hard copy and DVD at the Westport Historical Commission, Westport Public Library, and the Westport Historical Society. This was done to give fast and easy access for family research and genealogy look up. The data elements include the cemetery name, location, square footage, assessor’s map and lot number, number of gravestones engraved and number of unmarked field stones, most recent and latest dates of death, and other information. A digital photograph, GPS readings, a burial ground sketch map, and historical narratives are also included. You can also start doing the same thing by encouraging your local community to organize their family generation burial data. Then start an online database for your town. You may not know the usefulness of this process but I'm quite sure that the right time will come that these records will come in handy.

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