Four kinds of recording, one standard.
Whether it's a single family stone or an entire burying ground, the same care applies.
Full Burying Ground Survey
A complete photographic and written record of every legible stone in a burying ground, produced for the town, a local historical society, or a cemetery association. Surveys typically take between three and eight weeks depending on the site's size and the condition of its stones.
Individual Stone Recording
For families wanting a specific ancestor's stone documented and transcribed properly, before it's lost to another decade of weather. This is the most common inquiry we receive, and often the one that matters most to the person asking.
RTI & Photogrammetric Recovery
For stones too worn to read by eye or standard photograph. Reflectance Transformation Imaging combines dozens of photographs taken under different raking light angles to reveal carved detail that surface wear has otherwise erased from view — sometimes recovering text nobody has been able to read for a century.
Historical Society Digital Archive
Once a burying ground is recorded, the material is only useful if someone can actually find it. We build searchable digital archives for towns and historical societies, cross-referenced against vital records where they survive.
We don't clean, repair, or reset stones.
Conservation and restoration are a separate, more invasive trade, usually requiring a different set of qualifications and, for stones with historic designation, a different set of approvals entirely. We'll happily point a family or a town toward a conservator we trust — but the two jobs shouldn't be done by the same hands on the same visit.