You can do a rubbing of the headstone - put a piece of white paper on the headstone and take a pencil and rub it over the paper - the engravings will appear on the paper and then you can read the info. Also, I have heard of people using a piece of chalk - just rub it on the headstone. It washes right off with the rain. Good luck. Stella Bowling Pitt Beth Hacker <bethhacker@insightbb.com> wrote: I am looking for someone who e-mailed me who is doing Cemeteries, I am so sorry I forgot your name, but I need help. There is a Cemetery in Mercer County West Va., where I believe my granddad was buried, but someone used a white wash I guess to try to keep the old head stones in shape, and now you can not read the name, if the guy who e-mailed me, would please e-mail me, it would mean so much, I need to know if anything can be done to clean the headstones off. Thanks Myrtle ---------------------------------------- To review the Welcome message and find useful links for Clay County research, please visit http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~beckyjs3/clayco.html. If you have any questions or need help regarding this mailing list, please email kyclay-admin@rootsweb.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYCLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stella Pitt" <stella.pitt@sbcglobal.net> To: <kyclay@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [KYCLAY] Question > You can do a rubbing of the headstone - put a piece of white paper on the > headstone and take a pencil and rub it over the paper - the engravings > will appear on the paper and then you can read the info. Also, I have > heard of people using a piece of chalk - just rub it on the headstone. It > washes right off with the rain. Good luck. > > Stella Bowling Pitt > > Beth Hacker <bethhacker@insightbb.com> wrote: I am looking for someone who > e-mailed me who is doing Cemeteries, I am so sorry I forgot your name, but > I need help. There is a Cemetery in Mercer County West Va., where I > believe my granddad was buried, but someone used a white wash I guess to > try to keep the old head stones in shape, and now you can not read the > name, if the guy who e-mailed me, would please e-mail me, it would mean so > much, I need to know if anything can be done to clean the headstones off. > Thanks Myrtle > ---------------------------------------- > > > To review the Welcome message and find useful links for Clay County > research, please visit > http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~beckyjs3/clayco.html. If you have any > questions or need help regarding this mailing list, please email > kyclay-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYCLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ---------------------------------------- > > > To review the Welcome message and find useful links for Clay County > research, please visit > http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~beckyjs3/clayco.html. If you have any > questions or need help regarding this mailing list, please email > kyclay-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYCLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >