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Show Online burialregistrytakes guesswork out RIGHT ANGLE PICTURE F R A M I N G PHOTOS • PRINTS • FINE ART Quality art and top quality service to moot all your framing needs interest in genealogy is high everywhere. "But it's really big in Utah," says Wilson Martin, associate director of the division. "A lot of people come here to track down their family history." Indeed, Memorial Day weekend in Utah is to many genealogists what last week's "Star Wars" opening was to the Jedi Nation. Hundreds of visitors toting flowers and notebooks are busy lining up at cemeteries throughout the Beehive Slate to learn the whereabouts of those who have passed on. In the past, family members used to wander around like lost souls in burial grounds, poring over old books or through musty files to find out if their ancestors were interred there. Sometimes they would find themselves at the wrong spot and have to trek from cemetery to cemetery lo find them. The online database takes some of the guesswork out of their gravefinding. "Now you can be halfway around the world and find which cemetery with just a few keystrokes," Martin says. Utah's burial database was born in 1997, when the Legislature appropriated money for the task and mandated the Division of Slate History to disburse up to $5,LXX) in matching funds to cities, family ;Lssocialions and nonprofit groups wanting to record the information. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) California can keep its guides to celebrity tombstones. Utah's online burial registry helps people locate the graves of Great-Grandma Erma or long-lost Uncle Ed. What's more, Utah's grave registry can take most of the legwork out of the search. Already, about 541 cemeteries - an estimated 70 percent of the state's graveyards - are linked to the statewide data system that people can access for free on the Internet. No surprise, really. 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"The cemetery knows where they are and it's just a matter getting it in the system and getting it right," he says. However, it's an expensive venture that not all cemeteries can afford. The Salt Lake City Cemetery, for instance, is owned by three different entities: the city, a Jewish synagogue and Utah's Catholic diocese. The city received a grant a couple of years ago and is in the process of inputting its burial information, but the religious groups have yet to sign on. Day hails the electronic database as a more safe and convenient means of preserving burial records. which in the past were at risk from natural disasters and deterioration. He says the statewide database provides an electronic backup should a fire, flood, earthquake or computer glitch wipe out the records at any cemetery that uses the system. In the pre-digital days, "that wouldn't have happened," he says. parallel in Korea not be forgotten. "Thai's why we honor them, the ones that didn't make il back and the ones that did make it back but passed on later," he said. Shots are fired in honor of the dead. Taps is played. And the group moves on to the next graveyard. Over the years, the post's ceremonies have become popular with local residents. "There's been years when there have been hundreds of people there," said Paul Howard, also a 73year-old Korean War veteran, who organized the first cemetery tour shortly after the post's founding in the early 1960s. "There is always a pretty good crowd at all the cemeteries." But Howard said that is not. why they do it. He said the post would visit the dead whether the living knew it or not. "It's simply our duty," he says. "It is part of what we do." Withers said those who served may be forgotten if not for the efforts of other veterans. "I guess we're taking care of our own," he said. Hdip| Net *5 •* + | -t 5 to The database contains death data from such far-flung places as Cleveland in Emery County to the largest cemetery west of the Mississippi River - Salt Lake City's. There are also tiny plots like the 58-grave Holt Family Cemetery in Washington County. "I don't know when we would have gotten around to doing something like this (without the grant)," says Connie Gittins, a clerk with Smithfield City in northern Utah. "It was very easy and interesting for me just typing in the names. It's history-" While inquiries at cemeteries may be down a bit, workers say the database is not likely lo reduce the number of visits to sextons' offices. The database lists the location of each tomb by using block, lot and grave numbers - information the general public is not likely to understand without help. "People think we arc just here to take care of the dead, but there's also a very human aspect to this job of helping the families," says Salt Lake City Cemetery sexton Mark Smith. "That's not going to go away." Funding for the online program has ebbed and flowed over the years. The division funded nearly IOC) cemeteries in the first year, but will only dole out five or six grants in 2005. "We call it our never-ending project," Martin says. "As long as there Veterans honor those fallen * VEGETARIAN BENTO BOX 2 for 1 Entrees • Wed/Thu/Fri, June 1-3, 2005 The Park Record A-16 A C A D DY. to j , 2 ij 1 You no longer have to own real estate to own a golf membership and enjoy the personal touch that makes Glenwild Utah's number one golf club and spa. Experience Tom Fazio golf high in the majestic mountains of Park City. To learn more about membership opportunities, call (435) 615-9966. 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