The cemetery module deals with the day-to-day administration of burial grounds,
in a context which will support future trends
Features included allow you to:
- Maintain a Register of burials
- Maintain a Register of memorials
- Maintain a Register of exclusive rights of burial
- Maintain detailed grave records, including depths and positions of multiple
burials
- Issue formal notices and Grants of Rights
- Print instructions to gravediggers and issue a Certificate of burial
- Keep a register of funeral directors, stonemasons, or other regular agents
- Keep separate Cemetery fee accounts
- Issue invoices for fees if required
- Record receipts against invoices
- Financial reports, for instance on outstanding invoices
- Record fees for additional services such as genealogy searches or other
items of remembrance
- Search in registers for names or graves or dates
- Search in all registers for all entries relating to a specified grave
- Produce register reports from each register, for one or all sites, for selection
of names or dates or graves
Extra features in Version 10 also take into account proposals in the Government's
consultation paper, and are intended to support 21st Century burial grounds:
- Aims to match codes of practice of bodies such as ICCM, NAMM and NDS, including
the Charter for the Bereaved
- Risk management - including detailed memorial records, condition surveys
and remedial actions
- Ability to export data for use with on-site surveys
- Photographic images of memorials held on file - both archive and current
Multiple registers and cemetery sites - areas set aside for different traditions,
or different types of burial
Enhanced support for multiple burials, pre-natal and hospital burials, and
non-statutory registers
Flexibly designed to support cemeteries operated as natural burial grounds,
pet cemeteries, or similar, and to cover private as well as local authority sites
Supports grave re-use strategies, and future needs assessment, in line with
the consultation paper
Extra software for Cemetery ground plans and GIS mapping included free of
charge !
Scanned drawings, maps or air photographs can be installed as a base for
the Cemetery plan
Aims generally to facilitate e-government requirements
Facilitates links to other technologies, for instance cross-referencing
with GPS or microchip IDs, cross-referencing with GIS. Data geocoding, archive data capture, purchase of digital data, or
purchase of other technologies can be assisted where necessary.
Range of detailed User guides are included, for the cemetery software, for
dealing with special cases, for using maps and plans, and for using the free GIS