The images will eventually be hosted on an enormous free database being called "Google Maps for graves", The Times reports. Image: Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images)The project is being funded by the National Lottery Hedge Fund, Historic England, and genealogy sites Family Search and My Heritage. Now that funding has been secured for a nationwide project, Atlantic Geomatics are getting started by digitising Cumbria's cemeteries. Image: Getty Images) Getty Images)In addition to the headstones, every memorial, building, wall and tree will be scanned - up to 50million tracked images in each churchyard. There are also plans to give families the chance to find ancestors buried in unmarked graves.

Source: Daily Mirror September 03, 2021 14:48 UTC