I am forwarding this from the Mineral Co. list. I think it is a wonderful idea to do no matter where you are visiting graves. Barbara -----Original Message----- From: Patti McDonald [mailto:mcd@gcnetmail.net] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:05 AM To: WVMINERA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVMINERA] Memorial Day Hi All, For those of you who are visiting graves in Mineral County on Memorial Day: It would be a great gift to the Mineral County Researchers if you would check out our cemetery page and see if the cemetery you are visiting has been updated. There are soooooo many of us still looking for the final resting place of our ancestors. It doesn't take a whole lot of time and the results mean so much. All it takes is to take along your video camera, tape recorder or pen & paper and collect the information from the memorial stones. You could donate this to the Mineral County USGenWeb in memory of those you were visiting. I got this from another list, and am going to participate with this idea. When you shop for those memorial flowers and wreaths for your own loved ones, won't you join me in picking up a couple of $1 bunches of flowers to place on those lonely graves where no flowers are placed? Do it for our fellow researchers who haven't found those graves yet. Do it for the family members who may not be close enough or healthy enough to do it.. do it for those who have long since gone but used to care for the graves. Do it, just because you're a family historian, and care about these who have passed before us. Do it, because it just feels good! It is a special feeling know that these who would have been without, can now show that someone cared!" Have a safe Memorial Day weekend. Patti ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237