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Local Volunteers Urge County Help to Digitize Cemetery Records; Commissioners Suggest Options
Summary
A volunteer leader outlined a countywide project to map graves and digitize deeds across roughly 100 cemeteries in Bourbon County, seeking centralized records and suggesting county support or coordination with existing national systems.
Heather Etheridge, president of West Plains and Centerville Cemetery, told the commission on Oct. 6 that hundreds of cemetery deeds and paper maps across Bourbon County are at risk as volunteer caretakers age and records remain decentralized. She urged the county to consider a centralized, searchable digital system to track plots, owners and burial status.
Etheridge said Centerville…
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