A Leicester historian's idea to research early 20th century Jewish gravestones grew into a restoration project of the entire Jewish sections of a cemetery.
Rosalind Adam, author of Jewish Voices - an oral history of the Leicester community - aimed to find out about a few of the earliest Jewish families buried in Leicester's Gilroes Cemetery in order to produce a book about their lives.
But once she and her small team began cataloguing the gravestones they decided to include all of the Jewish headstones in a website.
It took a year to complete the project but the website now holds basic data for every Jewish person buried in the cemetery, a search function, and a cross-section of 16 people with in-depth profiles.
