The history here is literally under your feet, and now it's a lot easier to find.

The city of Galveston has launched a new online tool that allows residents, families, historians and researchers to search cemetery records that were previously buried in handwritten ledgers and historical documents.

5-year-old at center of Fort Bend County AMBER Alert found dead in Katy lake The city and its Geographic Information Systems team spent three years digitizing and verifying those records, mapping out more than 18,000 gravesites and identifying more than 10,000 of them across six city-owned cemeteries.