On 23 January 2012 00:51, Richard Farmbrough <richard(a)farmbrough.co.uk>wrote;wrote:
I will also add that while I was visiting South Mimms graveyard (in the
village, not the service station) many years ago, I happened across a
gentleman recording the details of the graves, of which (other than the
organization for which he was volunteering) there was no central record.
That's a whole big area, properly called "monumental inscriptions". Many
graveyards and cemeteries have groups who record what is on the monuments,
and/or maintain the place, and sometimes they keep a database of
information about who is buried there. There is no centralisation, though,
at present. It is a microcosm of the whole area, really.
Charles