New to our collection of photos-and-names for small cemeteries around Brisbane: * Moggill Historical Cemetery (Brisbane) * Mt Walker pioneer and historic cemetery (Boonah Shire) * Mutdapilly cemetery (Boonah Shire) * St Alban Liberal Catholic Church columbarium wall (Spring Hill, Brisbane) * St Thomas Anglican memorial plaques (Toowong, Brisbane) You can find our photos of cemeteries, columbarium walls and other memorial plaques at: www.ChapelHill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/ You can find our war memorial photos at: www.ChapelHill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/WarMemorials/ Please send in suggestions for small cemeteries or columbarium walls or another other places with memorials in the Brisbane area that we can include in our site. Check the WWW pages above to see the ones we have already done or are works in progress. Kerry & David

Strangest Alphabetical Lists I ever saw, but, I guess everyone is entitled to an opinion. Edna MacPherson Sabato ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: [Gen-QLD] more cemeteries and other memorial photos > New to our collection of photos-and-names for small cemeteries around > Brisbane: > > * Moggill Historical Cemetery (Brisbane) > * Mt Walker pioneer and historic cemetery (Boonah Shire) > * Mutdapilly cemetery (Boonah Shire) > * St Alban Liberal Catholic Church columbarium wall (Spring Hill, Brisbane) > * St Thomas Anglican memorial plaques (Toowong, Brisbane) > > You can find our photos of cemeteries, columbarium walls and other memorial > plaques at: > > www.ChapelHill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/ > > You can find our war memorial photos at: > > www.ChapelHill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/WarMemorials/ > > Please send in suggestions for small cemeteries or columbarium walls or > another other places with memorials in the Brisbane area that we can include > in our site. Check the WWW pages above to see the ones we have already done > or are works in progress. > > Kerry & David > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > http://lists.st.net.au/mailman/listinfo/genealogy-queensland > >

So Edna, where is your contribution??? Why knock a person's good work??? Cheers, Bob in Melbourne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edna MacPherson SABATO" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 12:19 PM Subject: [AQ-BRISBANE] Re: [Gen-QLD] more cemeteries and other memorial photos > Strangest Alphabetical Lists I ever saw, but, I guess everyone is entitled > to an opinion. > Edna MacPherson Sabato > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:45 PM > Subject: [Gen-QLD] more cemeteries and other memorial photos > > > > New to our collection of photos-and-names for small cemeteries around > > Brisbane: > > > > * Moggill Historical Cemetery (Brisbane) > > * Mt Walker pioneer and historic cemetery (Boonah Shire) > > * Mutdapilly cemetery (Boonah Shire) > > * St Alban Liberal Catholic Church columbarium wall (Spring Hill, > Brisbane) > > * St Thomas Anglican memorial plaques (Toowong, Brisbane) > > > > You can find our photos of cemeteries, columbarium walls and other > memorial > > plaques at: > > > > www.ChapelHill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/ > > > > You can find our war memorial photos at: > > > > www.ChapelHill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/WarMemorials/ > > > > Please send in suggestions for small cemeteries or columbarium walls or > > another other places with memorials in the Brisbane area that we can > include > > in our site. Check the WWW pages above to see the ones we have already > done > > or are works in progress. > > > > Kerry & David > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> Strangest Alphabetical Lists I ever saw, but, I guess everyone is entitled > to an opinion. What Edna was concerned about was entries that appeared to be indexed by given name instead of surname, which (if true) would indeed have been a very strange way to do it. So, let me explain ... Each entry is indexed multiple times using all the names found on the headstone. So, the surnames and given names are all there in alphabetical order (plus other random words, because it is machine indexed from the photo captions). If you take a look at the smallest of our cemeteries, Bunya which has 1 readable headstone for Thomas Broad: http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/Bunya-cemetery-Pine-Rivers-Shire/NameIndex.html you will see that the entry for his headstone appears twice in the list, once indexed by Broad and one by Thomas. We choose to construct the index in this way for a few reasons: * machines are good at indexing but aren't good at telling the difference between a surname and a given name, so it was simply easier to do it that way * sometimes people want to look up using given names, particularly for women whose married names are not always known * some headstones don't give a surname (or at least not one we could still see) so a given name is all we have So, having all names indexed gives greater flexibility in finding someone, but has the downside of increasing the size of the WWW page. Thank you for Edna for explaining the issue; we'll add some words to the WWW site to make it clearer how the index works. Kerry & David.