Last Name:
First Name:
AKA Search:
Section:		Lot:

Title	First Name	Middle	Last Name	Suffix	AKA	DOB	DOD	DOI	Section	Lot	Grave

How To

Search for your ancestor

• Try searching just by Last Name
• Consider alternate spellings of Last Name, as well as Maiden Name
• You can also use Last Name + First Name
• Searching by "AKA" will search: First Name, Middle Name, Nickname

Use the map

1. Use search to get the Section/Plot number of your ancestor.
2. Switch to map.
3. Zoom in to make plot numbers larger.
4. Start walking, if the "Track" button is green, the map will follow your steps.
5. Turn off "Track" if you want to scroll around the map.

About this project

   I photograph gravestones as a volunteer for findagrave.com. The Mt Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia is one I photograph, and I find it to be difficult to locate graves. The first problem is that the online database at the cemetery's website has hundreds of errors. The second problem is that the cemetery itself does not have geographical markers to help locate a lot once one knows the lot number.

I made this project to circumvent those two problems. All told, this took about 40 hours. It involved:

• Downloading the cemetery database
• Correcting hundreds of errors in the database
• Making a new search page for the corrected data
• Creating a customized google map that can be used to locate a plot by number

I can be contacted through findagrave.com.