ALMORGAN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > ALMORGAN-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 25 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [ALMORGAN] VIRTUAL CEMETERY ["Tricia Hall" <tntricia@bellsouth.] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from ALMORGAN-D, send a message to > > ALMORGAN-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [ALMORGAN] VIRTUAL CEMETERY > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 06:49:56 -0500 > From: "Tricia Hall" <tntricia@bellsouth.net> > To: ALMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com > > Better yet, Paula.... with the idea in mind of free sharing history and > geneologies; however, why not use a state genweb's virtual or the US virtual > cemetary listing so that the information is FREE instead of limiting your > research and footwork to a commercial software company that will charge the > rest of the world to get what you have contributed? The USGENweb site is > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm, and the national virtual > tombstone url (that will take you to each state registry) is > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/. > > Another suggestion I'd like to add is that why not each of us that are able > go out to ONE cemetary and photograph each headstone so that the entire > cemetary is documented? This photo idea is the same idea that has existed > for a while of "listing" cemetaries. That way instead of their being 10 of > us that go out to 4 different cemetaries (many of which will overlap) to > take 10 pictures at each place, we could create 10 *fully* documented > cemetaries. (At the same time, it is smart to register with your GENweb > virtual cemetary person so that two of us don't go out to photo the same > cemetary.) Or if you're concerned that no one will participate or do so > unequally, then get a group of friends together that are interested and > decide who is documenting which cemetary. Haven't you had the problem of > opening a listing for a cemetary far away to find only a partial listing of > 4 or 5 names? Often times someone was there and took the time to list their > own, but didn't have the time nor ambition to bother to list even one stone > further than their own. Or found that a long lost relative was in an old, > old cemetary where the stones all around were listed by some family, but > while folks knew this old relative was there with a *very* deteroriating > stone, they did nothing. Unfortunately, now it isn't possible to read most > of the information? > > These are just thoughts to add to your super great idea, Paula. No matter > how you choose to do it... the idea is DO it! ;o) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "paulahurst" <paulahurst@gateway.net> > To: <ALMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 11:53 AM > Subject: [ALMORGAN] VIRTUAL CEMETERY > > > I just found this neat site where you can contribute photos of your > > ancestors' tombstones and their birth,death, etc. You can also search it > > for relatives' tombstones. I plan to go out and take photos of my > > Sharpes, Hursts, Byars, Burlesons, etc and contribute as many as > > possible! Let's all get out the cameras! > > http://www.genealogy.com/vcem_welcome.html > > Anyone working in Hartselle? Not convenient for me to be in Hartselle to do research but have interest in a specific cemetery that I have visited and took pictures of my family's gravesite. Bill Jackson