Manuscripti, part of the Gower group, preserves the records bereavement services hold: careful restoration, high-resolution scanning of registers and large paper plans, and expert transcription of even the most difficult handwriting.
From a single fragile book to a whole archive, for any organisation and any collection.
Fragile and damaged books and documents are conserved by hand, so they can be handled, scanned and kept for the future.
Bound registers and large paper plans are captured at high resolution on specialist physical scanners, page by page and sheet by sheet.
Handwritten entries are transcribed with care over the detail that matters: names, dates, plot references and the notes in the margins.
Hand-drawn cemetery plans become accurate digital maps, plot by plot, ready for full historic tracking.
Not only burial registers: any historic books, ledgers, deeds or plans that need restoring or digitising.
Digitised records are yours to use as you choose. Most go on to Deceased Online, others into Epilog Cloud, your own systems or your archive.
Careful handling at every step, from collection to return.
A member of the Gower team collects your registers, books and maps, and transports them in fireproof boxes.
Plans are unrolled and flattened with care, and maps in several pieces are positioned together so each is captured whole.
Every page and sheet is captured on a specialist large-format scanner.
Entries are transcribed and hand-drawn plans traced into digital maps, checked against the originals.
Your originals come back safely, and the digital records go where you choose: Deceased Online, Epilog Cloud or your own systems.
Many cemeteries are still recorded on plans drawn by hand, some of them generations old. Manuscripti traces them into accurate vector maps, plot by plot, keeping the original layout and its history.
In Epilog Cloud mapping, the digitised plan becomes the base for full historic tracking of every plot. It can equally be delivered for your own mapping software.
Manuscripti works for any organisation, whatever software you use, or none. You do not need Epilog Cloud.
In most cases, digitised burial and cremation registers go on to Deceased Online, where they are preserved, searchable by the people looking for them, and earn your service a share of the revenue from record requests. But the choice is always yours.
Tell us what you hold, and we will suggest the best way to preserve it.