Wairarapa residents may soon be finding their long lost aunty from Tinui without ever leaving home using the latest satellite technology.
Wairarapa Archivist Gareth Winter said he suggested the Masterton District Council add data from cemeteries not yet on its online burial register, but use GPS technology to give it a little extra information.
A few weeks ago, photographs of headstones at Tinui cemetery were taken and the GPS location of each headstone recorded to create a database where, in the future, families and historians could use the internet to see precisely where their ancestors are buried.
You can read the rest of the story at http://www.times-age.co.nz/local/news/gps-technology-used-to-create-cemetery-database/3901914/.
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