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A new online genealogy research facility providing hitherto inaccessible layers of information (quite literally) is now available.
Around Angus, there are something in the order of 280,000 graves, many in cemeteries owned by Angus Council, and including many which either have no headstone, or whose headstone is no longer standing or is illegible.
Angus Council is the first local authority in Scotland to have teamed up with specialist company Deceased Online in this ground-breaking (sorry!) partnership to map the burial sites of the county.
The Council has digitised the information on burial records which it holds, and Deceased Online has translated the data into an easy-to-use website which offers free registration and free searches, then it's £1.50 (or less) per view of original documents. The three-dimensional nature of the information means that when the data-gathering and collation is complete, the identities of the occupants of each 'lair' within a grave (and there may be several family members buried together who are not named on any headstone) will be available.
When you have found the ancestor you are looking for, you simply buy bundles of credits in multiples of £1.50, and take it from there.
This is a first for Scotland, and one of the first cemeteries which is being completed is in Kirriemuir, where J M Barrie, author of Peter Pan, was laid to rest. Barrie passed away in London, England, but insisted on being brought back to his Scottish birthplace to be buried. Arbroath East and West cemeteries are complete, and other burila grounds in the area will be online soon in this rollong programme.
Deceased Online are in negotiation with other local authority areas in Scotland, so that eventually a comprehensive nationwide list of burial records will be available to researchers, wherever you may be.
