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This week we reveal details of the latest cemeteries to be added to the Deceased Online database.

Well done to those who recognized Greenwich Cemetery from the teasers on our Twitter and Facebook pages! Greenwich and Eltham Cemeteries are both managed by the Royal London Borough of Greenwich. The collection includes all data, comprising around 108,000 burials, with scans of burial registers, grave details (i.e. the details of all those buried in each grave), cemetery grave location maps and some memorial and headstone photos to follow shortly. The Council's cremation records (Eltham Crematorium, 202,000 mostly with register scans) are already on the database . We'll be revealing more about Eltham in next week's blog. Later this autumn, we will be adding the Council's other three cemeteries: Charlton, Plumstead, and Woolwich. Once all these cemeteries’ data is on the website, the total records covered for Greenwich Council will number nearly more than half a million. Greenwich Cemetery War Memorial. Familiar London landmarks, like the Gherk...