Over The Few Years We Have Been Back In The UK,

I have visited a few cemeteries,

taking photographs of the headstones and statuary in them, so I was interested to read that Atlantic Geomatics is creating a map of the UK’s cemeteries to help people track down their ancestors’ final resting place, the company has now taken on the task of mapping every churchyard and municipal burial ground in England—a total of more than 18,000—to create a Google Street View of graveyards in which descendants, genealogists, and conservationists can click on a map and see who was buried there and when, some graveyards are over grown, oak trees have been planted over biodegradable graves, so there are no headstones,

so Tim Viney ’s experience of searching for his parent’s graves in the 72-acre municipal cemetery in Carlisle sparked an idea, “I thought it would be quite good to be able to find people easily,” he says, so far, Atlantic Geomatics has mapped around 300 burial grounds, including sites in Cumbria, Devon, and Wales, as well as Highgate Cemetery in London, where figures such as Karl Marx and George Michael are buried. Parish by parish and diocese by diocese, Atlantic Geomatics hopes to map and photograph millions of graves over the next seven years, 

 Viney admits that this is an ambitious undertaking, but if his growing team succeeds, it could soon be much easier to find our families and relatives who were here before us, for the full story have a look here.