Am forwarding this email which was in the Manitoba list today. Know that Murray Pletsch is working on this so updates to his site are common. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:01 AM Subject: CAN-MANITOBA Digest, Vol 3, Issue 63 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Canadian Gravemarker Gallery Updates - 17 Sep 2008 > (Murray Pletsch) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:51:20 -0400 > From: "Murray Pletsch" <[email protected]> > Subject: [CAN-MANITOBA] Canadian Gravemarker Gallery Updates - 17 Sep > 2008 > To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > * > OBJECTIVE. > ********* > * > The aim of this Upgrade Newsletter is to itemize and publish the changes > and > additions to the Northern Ontario and Canadian Gravemarker Galleries > websites. > * > NEW CEMETERIES ADDED TO THE NORTHERN ONTARIO GRAVEMARKERS GALLERY. > ****************************************************** > * > 1. Sudbury District, City of Sudbury, Eyre Cemetery. > * > 2. Sudbury District, City of Sudbury, Anglican Cemetery. > * > 3. Sudbury District, City of Sudbury, Onaping Falls. > * > 4. Renfrew County, Slate Falls Loggers Memorial Site, Brudenell > Township. > * > 5. Timiskaming District, Kirkland Lake Cemetery (Partial), Teck > Township. > * > NEW CEMETERIES ADDED TO THE CANADIAN GRAVEMARKER GALLERY. > ****************************************************** > * > 1. Alberta, Edmonton Region, Sturgeon County, Legal Cemetery. > * > 2. Alberta, Edmonton Region, Sturgeon County, Morinville Cemetery. (Old > and New). > * > 3. Alberta, Edmonton Region, Sturgeon County, Calahoo Cemetery. > * > 4. ALberta, Edmonton Region, Sturgeon County, Namao Cemetery. > * > 5. Alberta, Edmonton Region, Sturgeon County, Villeneuve Cemetery. > * > 6. Alberta, Edmonton Region, Sturgeon County, Riviere Qui Barre > Cemetery. > * > 7. Alberta, Edmonton Region, Lac Ste. Anne County, Onaway Catholic > Cemetery. > * > 8. Alberta, Edmonton Region, Lac Ste. Anne County, Onaway Baptist > Cemetery. > * > 9. ALberta, Edmonton Region, Lac Ste. Anne County, Anglican Cemetery. > * > 10. Ontario, Southwestern Region, Bruce County, Tiverton Cemetery. > * > CEMETERIES IN PROGRESS. > ******************** > * > 1. RENFREW COUNTY is now completely online thanks mainly to the hard > work > of Diane Dillon. > * > 2. SUDBURY DISTRICT. The EYRE and ANGLICAN Cemeteries have been redone > separately and online. > * > 3. SUDBURY DISTRICT. The HANMER and CAPREOL Cemeteries have been > photographed. Processing continues. > * > 4. TIMISKAMING DISTRICT. The Kirkland Lake Cemetery is partially online > and progress continues. > * > 5. KENORA DISTRICT. The Lake of The woods Cemetery has been > photographed > and processing has started. > * > 6. RAINY RIVER. Volunteers are continuing work on Rainy River > cemeteries. > * > 7. NIPISSING DISTRICT. The North Bay St. Mary's Cemetery is being > re-photographed. > * > 8. RENFREW DISTRICT. The ARNPRIOR Malloch Road Cemetery has been > re-photographed and processing continues. > * > TIPS. > **** > Searching for common names such as "brown" can result in many hits. > Experiment with the search engine. Try...BROWN1...then BROWN2.....then > BROWN3...etc etc..! This will reduce the results for each search. > * > WEBSITE NEWS. > ************ > * > CANADIAN GRAVEMARKER GALLERY. > **************************** > 1. Over the past 8 years I have been asked by Out-Of-Province folks, > "If > I photographed local cemeteries, can I send the pictures to you and have > them placed online?" At the time, I told these folks that I was > concentrating only on Northern Ontario. > * > 2. However, I have now built a National website: http://gravemarkers.ca > .....! On this new site I can accommodate photographs of complete > cemeteries from anywhere in Canada. > * > 3. If you have family or friends across Canada who may be interested in > photographing their local cemeteries, please pass on this information. > * > 4. If you are interested in your local cemeteries going online, please > contact me at: mailto:[email protected] or mailto:[email protected] > * > NORTHERN ONTARIO GRAVEMARKER GALLERY. > ************************************ > 1. The Northern Ontario Gravemarker Gallery has 250,000 photographs > online with more going online weekly. > * > 2. Search Engines. Please note that the Northern Ontario Gravemarker > Gallery has it's own search engine at this time. The Canadian Gravemarker > Gallery has it's own search engine currently. The objective is to have > the > one search engine to index both websites and queries are being made. > * > 3. The number of visitors to the Northern Ontario Gravemarker Gallery > is > nearing 500,000....which is significant when you consider the majority of > these visitors are family researchers. > * > NORTHERN ONTARIO HISTORIC/NOSTALGIC WEBSITE. > ******************************************* > 1. Several visitors have asked about the research value of the > Historic/Nostalgic website. I explain that the yearbooks and classroom > photos with names, place the student in a specific place and time; plus in > most cases it will also place their parents in that specific place and > time. > * > 2. Please note that the *Northern Ontario Historic Photo Gallery* is > online at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cannor > * > 3. Currently there are many yearbooks and class photos online for North > Bay and other Northern Ontario communities. > * > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** > * > NORTHERN ONTARIO GRAVEMARKER GALLERY: > ************************************ > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~murrayp > * > CANADIAN GRAVEMARKERS GALLERY: > ***************************** > http://www.gravemarkers.ca > * > * > > SUBSCRIBING TO THE UPDATES NEWSLETTER: > ************************************* > To Subscribe to the Gravemarker Galleries Newsletter please go to the > Website at: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~murrayp and click on the "Join > Updates Newsletter" button located just above the weather row. > * > ****************************************************** > * > * > NOTES: > ***** > 1. Cemeteries have spousal duplicated photographs. This means a photo > which has the spouse's maiden name showing, is duplicated and when one > searches for a surname, the spouse's surname will be a separate "search > result". > * > 2. The speed at which cemeteries are photographed depends mainly on the > price of gas for our cars to reach distant cemeteries. Should you wish to > help out with this ongoing huge project, please contact Murray at > mailto:[email protected] > * > ********************************************* > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the CAN-MANITOBA list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the CAN-MANITOBA mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of CAN-MANITOBA Digest, Vol 3, Issue 63 > *******************************************