WAUKESHA - Although it is 158 years old, Prairie Home Cemetery is now
on the cutting edge of modern technology with the introduction of a
program that allows the public to access its extensive burial database
online.
The city-owned cemetery partnered with Ramaker Associates, Inc. of Sauk
City and Incite Strategic, LLC of Mequon to design a feature for its Web
site to look up burials, said David Brenner, cemetery manager.
"The site has an interactive map of the cemetery," he said.
"Searches of the database can be done by the person’s name or the
owners of the space."
With just a click of a mouse, an armchair genealogist anywhere in the
world with Internet access can check for family burials in the Waukesha
cemetery.
"Almost on a daily basis, we get phone calls from people asking us
to look up burials," Brenner said. "While we do welcome direct
inquires, we know that people like to search from the convenience of their
own computers, anytime, day or night."
