Sharon, As I offered the other day, just send me a cemetery to transcribe and I'll do it. You pick the cemetery. I work at my pace. That's the deal. Ralph Bruner > Subject: Need help > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:44:15 -0400 > From: "Sharon Bryant" <SharonBryant@worldnet.att.net> > To: INPUTNAM-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello, > > I have been procrastinating with finishing my mother's maternal line into a > book which we started researching some time ago. Because it suddenly > "dawned" on me that not only am I not immortal but neither is she (she's 78) > I decided I had better get cracking on this if she is to see it completed in > her lifetime. > > But, we have been making such great progress with the Putnam County records > that I'm torn and yet I need to set some priorities here. > > So, here's the deal: I made photocopies of many cemetery listings from > Putnam County and have been slowly typing them up to put on the website. If > one or more of you would be able to type these up for me, it would progress > much quicker and I could go ahead and work on Mom's Baker family. It won't > take any fancy software to do this - MS Word or Works would be fine. > > I only have one copy of each of these cemetery listings and some are not in > the best of conditions (readability that is) but I would be willing to send > you what I have if you will type and then return the file to me as an > attachment to an email. It would then be very easy just to copy and paste > into my webpage software and we could get them on-line. > > Any takers? If anyone is interested I can prepare a list of the cemeteries I > have and you can choose your own "poison." > > Thanks, > > Sharon > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Cemetery Inscriptions > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:25:02 -0400 > From: "Sharon Bryant" <SharonBryant@worldnet.att.net> > To: INPUTNAM-L@rootsweb.com > > Dear Listers, > > I received the following message which I am passing along to all of you. And > I will answer Ms. Hankins question following her message. > > >>I don't understand why this needs to be done since it's already being done > on rootsweb (USGW Tombstone Project). So posting to Putnam seems like a > duplication of effort. Can you explain the reasoning here to me? > Thanks. > Marsha Hankins<< > > Dear Marsha and others who may not understand, > > The USGW Tombstone Project depends on volunteers to walk these cemeteries, > transcribe them and submit them to the USGW Tombstone Project. If you will > go to the USGW Tombstone Project registry for Putnam County, IN you will > find that all of the cemeteries listed there with the exception of two are > listings which I have provided. There is no duplication of effort except > that the information can be found in two different places and not everyone > may be familiar with the USGW Tombstone project. > > Whenever I post a cemetery listing it is picked up and included in the USGW > Tombstone Project with my blessings. > > Sharon