Map the plots at Evergreen Cemetery
Amy George sent in this link to the Evergreen Cemetery interactive map:
This opens the door to everyone with a GPS, iPad, or tablet PC, to help us fill in the blanks in the burial records. We need to preserve the data as it’s in many cases the only record of a person’s life and the tombstone is the only link to the present. John Shuck worked tirelessly to extract these records, and continues to collect photos for Find-A-Grave. Fall and winter is a great time to volunteer at the cemetery – the bugs and poison ivy are gone, and the vegetation dies back so you can get a better look at the beautiful, historic graves.
http://evergreencemeteryva.wordpress.com/
John Shuck is on facebook and @findagraver on twitter
I swear… all the trees need to be removed. We shouldn’t keep the cemetery as a forest.
It’s pretty amazing the place originally was not a forest, like Oakwood Cemetary.
Also, how can the main road be on top of graves?!
Cadeho,
The people who platted out the cemetery must not have been very good at surveying or following their plan. The plot maps were made from digitized versions of the cemetery plat maps from the Library of Virginia. In some cases there may be graves under the road but it is more likely they just got “off” and the graves are not where the map says they should be. We need volunteers to go out and mark the graves with GPS.