Lynn Rainville’s Web site dedicated to the study of African-American cemeteries recently underwent a makeover. With the inclusion of Amherst County, the site is now called “African-American Cemeteries in Albemarle and Amherst Counties,” and can be found at www.virginia.edu/woodson/projects/aacac/aacaac/ .

New to the Web site is a searchable interface and expanded information about historic African-American cemeteries. The site also solicits help from communities in Amherst and Albemarle counties.

Rainville investigates a possible gravesite last fall at the Sweet Briar Plantation Cemetery. Rainville, an assistant professor of anthropology at Sweet Briar, has been studying historic American cemeteries since 1990. She began researching African-American cemeteries, including the Sweet Briar Plantation Cemetery, in 2001.

She also is working on a book tentatively titled “African-American Mortuary Variability: Historic Gravestones and Cemeteries in the Virginia Piedmont.”

The AACAAC project is funded by a three-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant.