This morning, as I do each morning, I checked my email and the many newsletters and other formats of info that comes in my email inbox hourly. I found this very interesting new advancement in "electronic genealogy." It has been called "Digitising the Deceased!" This comes from Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter EOGN
"Radio4 in the UK has an interesting report about placing QR Codes on tombstones. (See the picture to the right for a typical QR code.) Edward Stourton of the Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, recently interviewed Steven Nimmo, a funeral director from Dorset, to find out how digital 'quick response' codes are being placed on gravestones. Scanning the code with a smart phone directs people to a webpage where they can find a wealth of information about the deceased.
You can listen to the audio from the radio programme at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00z02tn."
This audio link is worth about 2.42 minutes of listening... it is a really cool way to remember love ones. It is similar to the "Memorial Madallions" we heard about in the last few years. Technology and genealogy marches on!
- Compiled by Indiana Bones
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