The Bureau County Genealogical Society March program will discuss the use of GPS in cemeteries and cemetery records. Presenting that program will be Cori Cunningham.

After growing up in Sheffield, Cunningham attended Eastern Illinois University, taught in Paris, Ill., and then moved to Valdez, Ark., where she taught school. Her work on the Valdez City Cemetery began as a data entry project, converting paper records to a digital format.

At the March meeting, Cunningham will explain the use of metal detectors to find pins and how to use GPS to locate the exact position of each grave plot. The original data entry project of plotting gravesites lasted three and a half summers. Cunningham moved back to Illinois in 2020, and settled in Princeton, where she works at the Princeton Public Library.

The program will be on March 27 at 7 p.m. at 629 S. Main St., in Princeton. BCGS will hold its annual meeting immediately prior and everyone is welcome to attend.

If you have any questions, contact BCGS at County Genealogical Society 815-879-3133. The BCGS is open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.