The first information to be digitized were lot ownership records, with burial records to follow.

The cemetery began converting its burial records to electronic format in late 2012.

In 1977, the island was vandalized and many burial records were destroyed by a fire.

A fire at the sexton's home destroyed the cemetery's burial records in 1860.

Army officials stated that the storage unit was rented by an employee of a contract company the cemetery had hired to digitize its burial records.