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Marc Giauque ReportingPeople with Utah ties now have some high-tech help finding loved ones' gravesites.
"He had a father that came in 1850 or 1849."
Carol Anderson talks with a grandson about some of her relatives buried here.
"Every year I come, even if I don't have a flower. I come, I come because I want to see they're okay."
She knows where to find several graves, not so much about those a generation or so removed.
"My husband kept saying go find John Taylor's monument, you should find them near there."
Now people can get help finding those graves. State historians have more than six-hundred thousand names, in 365 cemeteries on a website. People can enter a name, and get mapped grave locations. You can access the site through history.utah.gov.
