New Additions to the StLGS Website, Part II: Cemetery Maps

Last week, we announced the first of some wonderful new additions to our StLGS website, and, as promised, this week we have more! We told you about the new Missouri Territorial Papers collection, with hundreds of names of early St. Louis residents who signed petitions concerning their governance and land ownership. If you missed that post, you can read it on our Blogspot site. This week, we have another exciting addition to the website, thanks to our resident mapping guru, Jim Bellenger. Read on for all the details . . .

Our website contains hundreds of cemeteries located in St. Louis City and County. All of the cemeteries that are not located on private property have links to Google maps so you can find them easily. However, up until now, if you wanted a map of the cemetery, you had to search elsewhere. And, if you wanted to see where the sections of each cemetery were situated on a modern map, you had to figure that out yourself.

Not anymore! Jim's passion for cemeteries and maps have led him to pursue obtaining site maps for as many cemeteries as he can and then overlaying them on current Google maps so you can see exactly where every section in each cemetery is located. Because of the number of people buried in these public cemeteries, it's impossible to provide individual burial sites, but if you know the lot or section number of an ancestor's grave, now you will be able to see its approximate location within the cemetery.

On each of the pages Jim has completed, he's added a thumbnail map of the cemetery, as you can see here on the right. If you click on that map, you will go to an enlarged map of the cemetery superimposed on a Google map, as you can see below, left. You can zoom in or out on that map for clarity (map below, on the right). 

If you are a member of StLGS, you can access the burial records for that cemetery on the cemetery page or via the new maps. Jim has also created a "Map Help" page linked to each map with instructions for interpreting the information and using the zoom features.

Which maps are now online?

The following cemetery maps are now live on our website:

Concordia

New Pickers

Old Pickers

New St. Marcus

Old St. Marcus

St. Matthew

New Mount Sinai

Sts. Peter and Paul

Mount Hope

The Cemetery Map Help page is also live, and for the best results, you should check that out before you work with the maps.

Want More Like This? Please Help Us Do More!

Our amazing volunteers are poised and ready to bring you more St. Louis-based records as fast as we can. But it takes time and money to obtain, digitize, index, and organize these records and to keep our equipment and office running. Maintaining and updating our computer hardware and software, our printers and scanners, and our website is all dependent on the generosity of our members and friends. We recently mailed out our yearly appeal for donations, and we hope you will kindly remember us in your end-of-year giving. 

StLGS members and non-members can all explore the new free cemetery maps, but only members can access the full cemetery data. We hope when you see the many record sets we offer and learn how much more is to come, you'll want to join us—and help preserve and make accessible additional genealogical records. Get more information on our website's Membership page, and with your help, we are looking forward to providing more new maps, records, and family history education for years to come.