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Sonoma advances cemetery records with GIS mapping project and public site
Summary
The city presented a GIS mapping project for historic cemeteries developed with the Sonoma Valley Historical Society and an intern; council members and historical society leaders praised the tool as a records, planning and public-access improvement.
The Sonoma City Council heard a demonstration on Aug. 6 of a new GIS-based cemetery mapping and records system developed in partnership with the Sonoma Valley Historical Society and an intern position supported by Berea College and the society.
"This is a really, really good way to organize, centralize, secure, and preserve our precious historical data," Carolyn Fulton, the city’s cemetery manager, said during the presentation, describing the project’s value for records management and family…
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