Cemetery records

The cemetery archive today is a photograph collection. Each cemetery page is a paginated gallery of tombstone images — the original stones, photographed in situ — preserved from twenty years of contributor work to the Ancestors at Rest archive. Individual headstones are not yet transcribed into per-person records; per-headstone names, dates, and lineage will follow as OCR and editorial work proceed.

Coverage is concentrated in Eastern Ontario today, particularly Simcoe County, with the archive expanding as contributor work and cemetery-board partnerships extend it. Transcribed cemeteries (names + dates parsed into per-person records, distinct from photograph galleries) are a planned second shape and will appear here alongside galleries once that extractor lands.

Provenance varies. Most galleries were photographed by the late Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy or by individual family historians who contributed their work to the archive over the decades. Where the original contributor’s name is not preserved, each record says so plainly. If you took any of these photographs and want credit restored, please write — the attribution gap is a record of what the archive remembers, not a claim of ownership.