The final resting places of the departed in Butler County will be easier to find this Memorial Day, thanks to the efforts of volunteers who recently updated a website on the county's cemeteries. The work of the volunteers, an improved database containing more than 19,000 gravestone photos along with names and data on each person beneath each stone, is also drawing national attention to Butler County. Genealogists and historians from across the U.S. have high praise for the volunteers who recorded images of the county's old tombstones, many of which are rapidly deteriorating. The project is a joint effort of volunteers with the Butler County Genealogical Society, the Boston Studio Project and the Hruska Memorial Public Library. It began in summer 2008, after the Nebraska State Genealogical Society asked all counties to begin an effort to photograph every gravestone in the state. To date, the Butler County group has outdistanced many other communities by making both cemetery images and information available on the Internet. Butler County has 45 cemeteries on public and private land, some with only one or two graves. The largest, David City Cemetery, has more than 3,000 graves. Updating the county's cemetery database meant thousands of entries that include the location of a grave, the birth and death dates of the deceased, and other data about that person. There is even information on graves that have no tombstones. Here is the link for "the rest of the story": http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/tombstone-project-pays-off-for-genealogists/article_e7bffc4e-9025-5993-8049-d5c3bf093a6c.html