About this portal

The Harrison County Cemetery & Genealogy Portal is a museum-oriented research tool that connects burial records, source documents, and military evidence. It is built around a single principle: preserve uncertainty and exact source wording, and never change a record without human review.

These records and counts are baseline context, not live database results. No records are merged, deleted, or published automatically.

Evidence rules

Records are resolved using source-entry mappings, never names alone.
Exact source wording is preserved. Circa dates, partial dates, and “No date” are displayed literally; missing months or days are never filled in.
Descriptive labels are not necessarily personal names. Shared plots or matching names do not establish identity.
Source location labels are not geographic coordinates. No map positions are fabricated.
Records are never merged, deleted, relinked, or published automatically. Review choices affect only the flag.

Access model

Public browsing shows only records and fields explicitly approved for publication. Drafts, held entries, and internal review notes remain private. Administrative review requires a verified museum-admin account, and every persisted review action is recorded in an append-only decision audit capturing the reviewer, time, previous decision, and new decision.

Source documents

The portal draws on the Greenwood Cemetery Records, a 113-page document containing 6,188 staged source fragments. Hosted PDF page links will appear once real PDF hosting is configured. Until then, the source viewer shows the citation and an honest “PDF viewer not connected” state — it never invents a link.