RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. Re: [ARASHLEY] New Gravestone Project
    2. GENIA EDMONDS
    3. can't get the page up. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tootie Dennis" <tootied@suddenlink.net> To: <ARASHLEY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 10:23 PM Subject: [ARASHLEY] New Gravestone Project > Greetings Arkansas Researchers, > I wouldlike to invite you to check out the Arkansas Gravestone Photo > Project > and participate in its growth as it will only grow with everyone's > involvement. > > The Arkansasgravestones.org is a wonderful tool to preserve the headstones > of your ancestors. With the advent of time and weather and vandalism, our > headstones are disappearing at an alarming rate. We need to work on > preserving a digital image of our family stones as a fitting tribute to > our > ancestors. This site is an easy-to-use site that exists to make this > preservation possible. Additionally there is no cost to the contributor or > to anyone wanting to view the photos, hard to find in this day and age > where > everything costs something. Plus this is a great way to have a backup for > all those photos you presently have. There are no annoying ads flashing, > moving or popping. > > Particularly valuable are those very old headstone photos that you have in > grandma's photo album. Scan them into your computer and add them to the > site > as they may be the only testament to your ancestors life. Share them with > the world. > > This is link for the Arkansasgravestones.org GPP > > > Arkansasgravestones.org has just come on line. We are presently working to > get it setup and we would invite you to check it out. Also, I am asking > for > your help, please add your photos to the site. Every county will have > space. > > > I am your Arkansas State coordinator and I am truly excited about being > involved. If you need help in adding your pictures i will be glad to > help....another great way to save a grave. > > If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at > tootied@suddenlink.net to respond to this message. Many of you know me for > my SHARP research. Any one interested in hosting any of the counties i > would > like to hear from you. For you information there are 11 more states with > the > gravestones.org sites and more are being added. > > Thank you very much! > Tootie Dennis aka Ira Sharp Dennis > tootied@suddenlink.net > > The following states are currently using a version of the Gravestone Photo > Project software: > > www.arizoniagravestones.org > www.arkansasgravestones > www.coloradogravestones > www.illinoisgravestones > www.iowagravestones > www.marylandgravestones > www.mainegravestones > www.nebraskagravestones > www.newgrunswickgravestones (Canada) > www.newmexicogravestones > www.newyorkgravestones > www.ohiogravestones > www.oregongravestones > www.pennsylvaniagravestones > www.virginiagravestones > www.utahgravestones > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARASHLEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

    11/24/2007 12:55:55