MGA’s Liz Riley, associate professor in the School of Business, is helping catalog every burial in Macon’s historic Rose Hill Cemetery, creating a searchable database for the public.
In this Q&A, she discusses the challenges of converting faded handwritten records into digital form, the hands-on inventory of over 16,000 graves, and how her IT and business skills support the project.
Riley also shares the surprising and poignant stories uncovered among the cemetery’s residents, from tragic childhood deaths to famous Allman Brothers Band graves, and explains how the database will help the public explore Macon’s history and their own family connections.
