Hi! The following is posted with the kind permission of our List Administrator: I received the following plea for aid. These people seem to do a good job and need help to continue. Old computers, memory, camera memory or if you are so inclined a small donation. This is a 501 3c organization, so any donations are tax deductible. Every little bit of help is deeply appreciated. You can view their work at: http://www.cemeterysurveysinc.com/ Rel@ively, Patrice Brevard Genealogical Society, Webmaster >We are located in the Western NC/Northern GA/Eastern TN area/Western SC, >but all of our travels include cemeteries, therefore we have listings from >a number of States. > >Our problem is, right now, that we have done all the cemeteries within a >50 mile radius of our homes. We go out on "requests" much further. I've >also gotten a number of people who "do" cemeteries for me, and they are >having the same issues...drive forever, and then not enough memory in our >cameras to finish!! None of us have spare money, neither for more memory >sticks, much less laptops. All of us are running on old tower computers, >mine is the newest and it's 4 years old!! > >I have talked to a number of companies who clean out and then "give away" >their laptops to tax-exempt organizations, but all have said that >"cemeteries" are not their priority, nor genealogy. I have been looking >for grants and/or sponsorships for our endeavor, but so far haven't had >any bites on that either!! We want to continue doing cemeteries (we have >over 500 online now, 99.9% are with pictures of each stone and panoramas >of the cemetery). > >I have a place for sending donations on my website, so far they have come >to $200 (in the past 3 years!), which is paying for the renewing of our >domain name. Everything else has been "out of pocket". Our webspace is >donated to us, on an ad-free site, by a man who is a genealogy-aholic. >(When I had Cemetery Surveys on Rootsweb's Freepages, people were >complaining about the ads popping up all the time, sometimes 3 to a page!) > >I've been fighting to keep this website FREE, knowing that I, personally, >and many of my avid followers could not afford a subscription price. So >now I'm trying to reach out to the public. Any help you can offer me will >be greatly appreciated. I don't mind begging!! > >Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you! > >Rose Birdwell, President, Cemetery Surveys, Inc. >Murphy, NC >rose@cemeterysurveysinc.com