This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/1233.1 Message Board Post: This book can be bought at a Bookstore here in town called "Volume One Books" there address is 96 North Broad Street , Hillsdale, Mi 517-437-2228, note there are a Volume 1 and Volume 2. Volume 1 is the older data.

Hi All, For those of you who are visiting graves in Hillsdale County on Memorial Day: You could give a great gift to the Hillsdale County researchers if you would take along your video camera, tape recorder or pen & paper and collect the information from the memorial stones. You could donate this to the Hillsdale County USGenWeb in memory of those you were visiting. The contact person for that website is Coordinator, Tracey Morris, <hillsdaleco@michigan.usa.com> Another idea, which came from another list and I am going to do: When you shop for those memorial flowers and wreaths for your own loved ones, pick 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 those who have passed before us. Do it, because it just feels good! Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Floyd Bailey fbsb@earthlink.net

< You could give a great gift to the Hillsdale < County researchers if you would < take along your video camera, tape recorder or < pen & paper and collect the < information from the memorial stones. What a wonderful idea - I have family buried there and have no way of ever seeing their graves - Wilma Fleming Haynes gencon@harborside.com Hi All, For those of you who are visiting graves in Hillsdale County on Memorial Day: You could give a great gift to the Hillsdale County researchers if you would take along your video camera, tape recorder or pen & paper and collect the information from the memorial stones. You could donate this to the Hillsdale County USGenWeb in memory of those you were visiting. The contact person for that website is Coordinator, Tracey Morris, <hillsdaleco@michigan.usa.com> Another idea, which came from another list and I am going to do: When you shop for those memorial flowers and wreaths for your own loved ones, pick 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 those who have passed before us. Do it, because it just feels good! Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Floyd Bailey fbsb@earthlink.net ============================== 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

Hello! We, too, think this is a wonderful idea. Got the bug in us to travel the hour or so, to do just that. GGgrandparents, Charles and Maria (Bach) Morlock, are buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Hillsdale. I will be going to place flowers on their graves, and GG Aunt and Uncle, Mary and Amos Steere, too. We will also take a couple of extras for the lonely and forgotten, too. We also have family that we may never see their gravesites, and think this is a wonderful way of remembering, and hope someone would do the same for us, in their areas. We will be taking our digital camera and a notepad, and doing a section of this cemetery. We will post the names of the stones that we took, and if anyone is interested, we will email them the pictures. What is concidered "memorial" stones? Is that the ones that were in the military, at some point? We will take those too, if someone answers this question before we leave on Monday, to travel to Hillsdale, MI., and donate them to Tracy Morris, as noted below. If there is anyone that is local, or traveling to this cemetery, related to the Morlock family, we would love to meet you! Best Regards, Warren and Sue in NW Ohio <<< Floyd Bailey wrote:>>>> "Hi All, For those of you who are visiting graves in Hillsdale County on Memorial Day: You could give a great gift to the Hillsdale County researchers if you would take along your video camera, tape recorder or pen & paper and collect the information from the memorial stones. You could donate this to the Hillsdale County USGenWeb in memory of those you were visiting. The contact person for that website is Coordinator, Tracey Morris, <hillsdaleco@michigan.usa.com> Another idea, which came from another list and I am going to do: When you shop for those memorial flowers and wreaths for your own loved ones, pick 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 those who have passed before us. Do it, because it just feels good! Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Floyd Bailey fbsb@earthlink.net"

Thanks, Harts, for the vote of confidence. I believe a "memorial stone" is simply a newer, more friendly name for "tombstone." It will be interesting to hear what others have to say about this. Recently I tried to locate a dealer in tombstones in a distant city. The online yellow pages didn't recognize the word tombstone; it used memorial. Perhaps that came about as a result of the "memorials" placed on military graves like you suggested. Have a pleasant trip Monday. My 2great grandfather, John G. Bailey, is buried in Lakeview Cemetery. I wasn't even aware of that when I was a student at Hillsdale College forty-plus years ago. My parents used to come to visit other family graves in Frontier, Cambria, etc., but I don't think they knew of John's. We never went to Lakeview. So close and yet so far, right? Floyd Bailey