If you told me a decade ago that I'd become an expert in mapping cemeteries, I would've laughed and been very confused about ...

FAIRBURY, Ill. (AP) - A 21st century GPS device resting atop a tombstone from the 19th century connects with a satellite orbiting more than 12,000 miles above the Earth so high school students can map ...

A mapping service is helping the Madisonville Cemetery Association discover dozens of unmarked graves at the Madisonville Cemetery. Omega Mapping Services was out at the cemetery Monday using a device ...

MILFORD -- A s a professional cemetery mapper, David Palance spends a lot of time in New Hampshire's oldest burial grounds, unearthing clues to help researchers, historians and genealogists. Palance, ...

When Bowling Green’s first municipal cemetery, Repose Park – now known as Pioneer Cemetery – began filling up in the mid-19th century, the city established the massive Fairview Cemetery in 1865 a ...

He got the idea for the cemetery mapping project after Roger McDowell of the Fairbury Veterans of Foreign Wars approached him about finding veterans' gravestones that were in need of repair. Quain ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robbyn Abbitt, Miami University (THE CONVERSATION) If you told me a decade ago that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miami University students in the author's advanced GIS course collect headstone data. Robbyn Abbitt, CC BY-SA If you told me a ...

Robbyn Abbitt receives funding from local entities that manage the cemeteries that have been mapped. She works for Miami University. If you told me a decade ago that I’d become an expert in mapping ...