Hello; I am thinking about publishing cemetery inscription books with pictures of every stone of Hamilton County cemeteries... What I need from you all is your opinions about this; whether you would purchase this sort of book; if it would be something that would be useful to you in your research...etc.. Also if this is something that you are interested in-- I would need requests for cemeteries that you would like to have in each book. Thank you for all opinions and requests, Tammy

> I am thinking about publishing cemetery inscription books with pictures of > every stone of Hamilton County cemeteries... > > What I need from you all is your opinions about this; whether you would > purchase this sort of book; if it would be something that would be useful to > you in your research...etc.. > > Also if this is something that you are interested in-- I would need requests > for cemeteries that you would like to have in each book. Well, there has been ongoing census transcription projects (2) to put all of Hamilton Co's cemeteries online for research...with the majority already available at these two URL's... http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/5807/ http://www.carolyar.com/Illinois/HamiltonCounty.htm At the first URL Misty had been trying to link each transcription with a picture of the headstone and a pic of the church (which reminds me, I have several for the southern Ham cemeteries headstones, about 4 rolls of film, if I can get my darn scanner going). She had completed one small cemetery with pics of stones at this url... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~flanigan/Corenth/index.html I'm not sure how cost effective your book would be considering just the costs to publish a plain text book. it would portly cost more to print then what you could sell for, and then you have demand for the book considering what we have going online. But, as was said, a CD would be an ideal format. I believe this was the format of choice for the latest marriage record book underway for Franklin Co.... I bet publishing companies are losing a bit of mula with the advent of CD burners :-)... Best Regards, Trev