Gage County visitors grant, going to cemetery digital records project

The Beatrice Cemetery Association will receive a $25,000 visitors grant to help complete a project to digitize records of the Evergreen Home Cemetery and a cemetery along East Scott Street. The funding, from lodging tax revenue…will help pay a part of what’s expected to be a $70,000 project.

Mitch Deines is with the Beatrice Cemetery Board…which has been working on the proposal since late last year.

"How does it affect tourism in Gage County? There are countless people every day that come into the cemeteries. We estimated about eight to ten thousand visitors per year, doing family research, checking on their families. This will essentially be on a website that they will develop for us. You'll be able to type in your ancestors name, put in on your phone....and you can walk right to the grave. It's a really great cemetery software system that's used all over the world."

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