WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talk about good publicity! Way to go, Michelle. Will you post a copy of the article to the list? Richard On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 18:44:01 -0400, Michele Lewis wrote > A reporter with the Augusta Chronicle interviewed me today for a > story. He is coming out here tomorrow so that he can take a picture > in a cemetery with me "surveying" it :) > > I had written a letter to the editor of the McDuffie County Progress > newspaper asking that if anyone in McDuffie Co has a family cemetery > plot on their private property to please call me so that I could > come out and survey it. McDuffie is very rural and most of the > graves out here are on private property. The only way I will find > them is if someone tells me where they are. Anyway, the Chronicle > reporter read the letter to the editor in the Progress and thought > it would make a good story. > > The Chronicle just ran a story about a family cemetery that had been > vandalized. They interviewed a genealogist that is writing a > cemetery book in Columbia Co. He had already surveyed this cemetery > (he is related to the occupants) and had cleaned the cemetery up. > Then the vandals hit. I think the timing for my story is good > because I think people out there will want their family plots > recorded so that the info is not lost. > > I am very happy about this opprotunity! > > michele lewis > GaGenWeb Coordinator > McDuffie Co, GA > > *** All outgoing mail checked by Norton AntiVirus *** > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > For researching SURNAMES, check out GAGenWeb's new help page with links > to the most popular Surname sites: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/cchelp/surname/