Digital Records
In 2021, Berkeley Burial Committee started a project to bring the records of the cemetery into the 21st century.
Our Mission
The cemetery has records dating back to the early 1800’s. Any searches for graves took hours, and often resulted in ambiguous answers.
So we decided that we needed to transform the old paper records and maps into digital, searchable databases that can be used online for anyone who needs them.
“What used to take hours, now is only a matter of minutes.”
Clerk - Burial Committee
What We’ve Achieved
Collation of all burial records
Professional digital scanning
Transcription of records
Data entry of transcribed records into a searchable spreadsheet
Digital scan of maps
Creation of new website
Publicly available records
Allows users to search online at their convenience
We have made the digitised maps and registers available for free download. There is currently no ability to automatically search for entries online. The current process will require you to download the spreadsheets and maps, and manually search them. We are looking at creating a more automated system, but this is a longer term project.