Brilliant, Peter. I'm a huge fan and user of Find A Grave, and in fact I volunteer grave-photography here in San Diego. It's very rewarding. But I never thought to advise/suggest others to do likewise! I think Find A Grave is quickly becoming a major research tool for us. I would like to know the main RC cemeteries in Donaghmoyne. Would you know? I think I will take your lead and suggest to folks in Kingston, Ontario, to do post their ancestors. Almost all of my ancestors from Counties Cork, Monaghan and Donegal first settled in Kingston area. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Peter Trainer <ptrainer@optonline.net>wrote: > Many of us know of the Find A Grave website: > http://www.findagrave.com/index.html. For those on this list who are not > yet familiar with it, it's a site that allows anyone to post detailed > gravesite info with photos. It's hugely successful, with 150,000 users/day > accessing a database of 97,000,000 graves, mostly in the US. In IE, > particularly in Monaghan, not so much. > > If volunteers in Ireland started posting more graves, it would be a > tremendous help to family researchers with Irish ancestry everywhere. > Posting your family members' graves could start a wave of postings to this > very helpful resource. It's really pretty easy. > > For Ireland research, click on "Search 97 million grave records" in the > above link, then enter at least a last name and select Ireland from the > country list, along with birth and death year parameters if desired. While > counties Dublin & Louth seem to have a lot of postings, Monaghan does not. > Here are a few of the Monaghan cemeteries represented-- > > St. Mary's Church and Cemetery (only 34 graves): > http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2305599 > > Broomfield Old Cemetery (only 9 graves): > http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2226961 > > Tedavnet Cemetery (only 5 graves): > http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2483415 > > St. McCartin's Cathedral Cemetery (only 6 graves): > http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2467361 > > So take a look, Monaghan list members who are not yet familiar with the > site--try posting a handful of graves with photos of the markers. Many are > drawn into the process, knowing all the good it does and end up posting > hundreds or thousands. These death records that are carved in stone are > the most reliable! > > > Peter Trainer > ================================= > > Message Boards: > http://www.igp-web.com/boards.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-MONAGHAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Sharon, Via Christina's posting, I was just looking at these sites. I don't know of any others. Many thanks, Christina! http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/monaghan/photos/tombstones/monaghan-donaghmoyne/index.html http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/monaghan/cemeteries/donagh-cem.txt Peter On Apr 12, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Sharon Connor wrote: > Brilliant, Peter. I'm a huge fan and user of Find A Grave, and in fact I > volunteer grave-photography here in San Diego. It's very rewarding. But I > never thought to advise/suggest others to do likewise! I think Find A > Grave is quickly becoming a major research tool for us. > > I would like to know the main RC cemeteries in Donaghmoyne. Would you know? > > I think I will take your lead and suggest to folks in Kingston, Ontario, to > do post their ancestors. Almost all of my ancestors from Counties Cork, > Monaghan and Donegal first settled in Kingston area. > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Peter Trainer <ptrainer@optonline.net>wrote: > >> Many of us know of the Find A Grave website: >> http://www.findagrave.com/index.html. For those on this list who are not >> yet familiar with it, it's a site that allows anyone to post detailed >> gravesite info with photos. It's hugely successful, with 150,000 users/day >> accessing a database of 97,000,000 graves, mostly in the US. In IE, >> particularly in Monaghan, not so much. >> >> If volunteers in Ireland started posting more graves, it would be a >> tremendous help to family researchers with Irish ancestry everywhere. >> Posting your family members' graves could start a wave of postings to this >> very helpful resource. It's really pretty easy. >> >> For Ireland research, click on "Search 97 million grave records" in the >> above link, then enter at least a last name and select Ireland from the >> country list, along with birth and death year parameters if desired. While >> counties Dublin & Louth seem to have a lot of postings, Monaghan does not. >> Here are a few of the Monaghan cemeteries represented-- >> >> St. Mary's Church and Cemetery (only 34 graves): >> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2305599 >> >> Broomfield Old Cemetery (only 9 graves): >> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2226961 >> >> Tedavnet Cemetery (only 5 graves): >> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2483415 >> >> St. McCartin's Cathedral Cemetery (only 6 graves): >> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2467361 >> >> So take a look, Monaghan list members who are not yet familiar with the >> site--try posting a handful of graves with photos of the markers. Many are >> drawn into the process, knowing all the good it does and end up posting >> hundreds or thousands. These death records that are carved in stone are >> the most reliable! >> >> >> Peter Trainer >> ================================= >> >> Message Boards: >> http://www.igp-web.com/boards.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-MONAGHAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > ================================= > > Message Boards: > http://www.igp-web.com/boards.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-MONAGHAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message