Local Cemeteries Highlighted On New Website

Jan 26, 2022

The Cloyne and District Historical Society (CDHS) has created a new Flickr website devoted to our local cemeteries. The new website: https://flickr.com/photos/cdhscemeteries/ currently has over 1,100 highresolution gravestone photos. To date, photos of every grave in the following cemeteries have been uploaded: Vennachar, Denbigh (3 cemeteries). Harlowe (3 cemeteries), Northbrook, Cloyne Pioneer, and Dempsey. If permission is granted, the Flinton cemeteries will also be included on the site this spring.

The site is ideal for genealogy and local history. With Flickr’s powerful search engine, anyone can enter a family name with all matching graves appearing. Photos are categorized into albums enabling viewers to display, for instance, graves in only the Dempsey cemetery.

The Flickr site compliments the popular website “Find A Grave” but has a few local advantages. All graves and legible inscriptions are included. No sign-in or membership is required. And, the large high-resolution photos are free to download in their original size for personal use.

Traffic on the site is already steady with over 2000 photos viewed daily. The primary Flickr site of the CDHS (https://flickr.com/photos/cdhs) has over 1,600 historic photos, documents, and videos online. As the CDHS is a member of the Flickr Commons the site allows free high-resolution downloads. Since its inception in 2013, this site has received 4,500,000 views from around the world