"Cocker, 53, has photographed in fact, over 24 years, she has captured almost half a million of them, driving around the county on her weekends and days off from her job in the local Lidl supermarket. As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset of 615,000 names many graves contain more than one person which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in England."
"I'm just passionate about it, I really am, says Cocker. I know it sounds crazy. The appeal lies partly in the peace of spending time in graveyards, she says, where she will gently clear overgrown memorials, often accompanied by her mother, Angela Parke, or husband Neil. But also: I just like helping people. You can make somebody's day when you help them find their ancestor that they're looking for. It's a really nice feeling."
Louise Cocker, 53, has photographed gravestones across Norfolk for 24 years, driving the county on weekends and days off from her Lidl job. She has captured a dataset of about 615,000 names, including multiple people per grave, and photographs memorials such as James Henry Payne's slab reading 'Not lost, but gone before.' She gently clears overgrown memorials, often with her mother Angela Parke or husband Neil. The work brings peace and the reward of helping people find ancestors. Findmypast provides access to the database, and independent genealogists form the foundation of Britain’s growing family-history research.
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