Completing a survey provides a comprehensive record of a
cemetery at a specific time.Start with doing a search for any
data about the cemetery that you might find at your local
historical society, library, and local government recording
office or University archives. After you have completed your
surveys, file the collected information with several of these
places, it will ensure the long-term preservation of your site
and research data. Keep the information you found in your search
organized, it’s going to help you along the way. Do an on-site
analysis to create a general survey covering the overall design
and composition of the site. Using graph paper, all of these
items should be drawn as close to scale as possible, to make a
map that provides a view of the dimensional relationships within
the cemetery and the outer boundaries of the site. Do not assume
that the fence marks the correct boundaries. The map will be one
of the most important pieces of documentation created during
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