By Bethaney Phillips

Last year, Greenwood Cemetery upgraded the way it keeps its records, and how those records are available to visitors. The location now hosts an electronic kiosk where users can type in names, dates, and more to receive information on individual burial plots, said Cemetery Sexton, Karen Buckner.

The addition of the kiosk came after the existing pavilion ran out of room for its paper records, Buckner said.

“I said ‘How am I going to keep this up,’” she said. “I didn’t really want to add more to that structure because I kind of like the way it looks and didn’t want to have to add on either end,” she said.

From there, Buckner researched ideas and found a company that sells electronic kiosks for cemeteries. Power was added to the pavilion, and then the kiosk itself was put in place.

“It has lots of storage and will takes us way into the future,” she said.

Older burial plots are still listed via paper on the south end of the pavilion, she said. While all graves are listed in the kiosk, which sits at the north side of the small shelter. The pavilion itself is located just outside the cemetery entrance.

Buckner said the kiosk stays current, with new additions available to visitors as soon as 15 minutes after she enters fresh data.

Users can look up block and lot locations, which are marked by signs that were replaced a few years ago. Prior to that, it was difficult to find the markers for what lot you were in, Buckner said.

“I get you to the block and the lot, the rest you have to figure out yourself,” she said. “My idea was, if I was going to spend the taxpayers’ money to get you located, it needed to be easily seen.”