Recording the Dead, Creating Procedure for Digitizing and Mapping a Historic Cemetery

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Tulocay Cemetery research project is digitizing over 150 years of historical death and plot sale records for the largest cemetery in Napa Valley, California from 1859 to present day. The project’s goal is to transcribe the records to a digital format and map the location of the historic graves so they may be easily accessed and navigated. The project will produce a navigable catalog linked to GPS. In addition, digitizing the records collects data sets that track the epidemiological curve, immigration, and succession of illness in the region. This paper will present on the procedure of bringing Historical cemeteries into the modern era as well as initial findings from the data.

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