By Matt McGregor. When Linda Petit took her husband, Ray, to see the floral arrangement on her parents’ gravestone on Sunday at the Blue Ridge Gardens of Memory (formerly Pisgah Gardens) off Hendersonville Highway, she found their marker barren. Linda and Ray’s daughter, Denise Gonsales, who lives outside of Savannah, Ga., brought the ornate, Christmas-themed […]
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Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station Interviews CemSites’ Chief Technology Officer Sean Johnson
Radio Station: WESA 90.5 – Pittsburgh’s NPR News StationBroadcast Date: July 16, 2019Interviewee: Sean Johnson, Chief Technology Officer, CemSitesInterviewer: Kiley Koscinski, Morning News Producer, 90.5 WESA A Local Startup Is Bringing Cemeteries To The Cloud Announcer:It’s The Confluence on 90.5 WESA. I’m Kevin Gavin. Cloud computing has infiltrated almost every corner of our working lives, […]
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Digitizing & Automating Your Cemetery Office
By Scott McAfee, Chief Operating Officer, CemSites. Left behind in the technology era? There are more than 100,000 cemeteries in the U.S. Each proudly serving their communities with kind, gentle, and compassionate death care services. Unfortunately, most are still using centuries-old techniques to record and manage records. Critical and historical data is still being managed […]
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Is Cloud Computing Really Better For Business? Survey Says…
By Anna Kucirkova. Cloud computing is an increasingly popular term, just as using the cloud for storage, applications, and business servers is an increasingly popular practice. Businesses of all sizes are implementing cloud technology to reduce sunk costs, overhead, and physical space dedicated to computing. But the term is still widely misunderstood and the use […]
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CemSites brings cloud tech to cemetery management
By Julia Mericle – Technology Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times. Scott McAfee and Sean Johnson are bringing cloud technology somewhere unexpected — cemeteries. The duo co-founded CemSites, a software company that helps cemetery owners manage record keeping, GPS mapping and other operations. Since its launch in 2012, McAfee said the software has been implemented by hundreds […]
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Firm hired to create computerized map of Glens Falls Cemetery
GLENS FALLS — The city is attempting to bring the 165-year-old Glens Falls Cemetery into the digital age. The Glens Falls Cemetery Commission is spending $17,440 to purchase a new computer, software and services from CemSites Software of Pennsylvania to create a complete cemetery map of lots, plots and graves. City Historian Wayne Wright, who […]
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The Hanging Coffins of Sagada, Philippines
Members of the Igorot tribe of Mountain Province in northern Philippines have long practiced the tradition of burying their dead in hanging coffins, nailed to the sides of cliff faces high above the ground. Comfortably predating the arrival of the Spanish, the procedure can probably be traced back more than two millennia. To this day, […]
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A Cemetery Underwater: Neptune Memorial Reef
The fact that we are all going to die one day is not something that I like to think about at all. For me, it is such an unlikely thing, which I rarely consider my mortality, or even worse, that of my loved ones. In the rare occasion, I think about the remote possibility of […]
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A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets
In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its inhabitants died almost 4,000 years ago, yet their bodies have been well preserved by the dry air. The cemetery lies in what is now China’s northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, yet the people have European features, with […]
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Dargavs Village: City of the Dead
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.The village of Dargavs, or the City of the Dead, has an ancient cemetery where people that lived in the valley buried their loved ones along with their clothes and belongings. The valley stretches for 17 kilometers, and the cemetery contains […]
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