This screen recording shows the complete digital workflow behind the Llandyry Church cemetery survey of 2023 — the project that became the first of my self-taught heritage methods to be formally accessioned by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales into the Coflein national database.

The recording shows how raw field data collected on a mobile phone is processed, organised and published as a permanent digital record. You will see how the sectioned grid map of the churchyard was built using Google Earth, how individual memorial records were created and managed in FindAGrave, how Welsh inscriptions were extracted using Google Lens and translated using AI tools, and how GPS coordinates were assigned to each grave to give it two permanent means of identification — a location in the digital record and a position on the physical grid map.

The project covered every stone in the churchyard. Every inscription was recorded in both Welsh and English. Every grave received a GPS coordinate. The finished record was submitted to RCAHMW and accessioned into Coflein, the national database of Wales.

This video is offered as a practical demonstration for anyone who wants to understand how digital heritage documentation works in practice, using free tools available on any phone or computer.

For the full written methodology see: www.peoplescollection.wales/items/2239466

Graham Tudor Emmanuel · Kidwelly · 2026