Keeping the names that time would erase

Our purpose

Why we do this

A graveyard is full of bonds: husbands and wives, parents and the children they buried, neighbours and the masons who cut their names in stone. Every headstone is a record of a life, and of the people who wanted that life remembered.

But stone is not forever. Lichen creeps, frost splits the lettering, and names once chiselled deep grow faint until they cannot be read at all. When a headstone becomes illegible, a person can slip entirely out of memory. Our work is to reach the stones while they can still be read, and to keep what they say.

Everything here is, and will always remain, free to search. We are a non-profit effort, built by volunteers, for the families and historians who come looking for someone.