PROJECT Cemetery Records - The Cemetery Index

The Cemetery Index is used to manage the recording effort and correlate data between the Gravestone Index and the Gravestone Photos. It contains three main areas:

1. Cemetery names - including CemID, where we use the farm name / number as found on the 1:50 000 maps of South Africa. There can be more than one cemetery location on a farm (see 3.)

2. Documents - including DocID, which track recorder and submitter names, dates entered, etc. There can be many documents for a single cemetery, due to revisions, updates, etc.

3. Cemetery locations - including GPSID, which contain the GPS coordinates, links to eGSSA photo albums, etc., and provide data for the Google Earth Cemetery Initiative. There can be multiple cemetery locations on a farm.

The Index is run in an MSAccess database and extracts of useful data are published as Excel spreadsheets on this Genza page on a monthly basis. File last updated on 31 July 2024 with the figures listed below. 

Much more detail is available in the excel file  GSSA Cemeteries Data Processing Update which can be downloaded from the table below. 

• Download the relevant file of the Cemetery Index by clicking on the spreadsheet name in the table below.