Hello Rick, Thanks for your response. I guess you reinforced my point. We do not have any one place for the location of the grave information from Hecla Cemetery. Find a Grave has 17 listings. The Houghton Keweenaw County Genealogical Society has 110 listings here - http://www.hkcgs.org/HeclaSkoviakWebPages/StoneNames.shtm Greg Skoviak and others have posted 92 grave stone photographs from Hecla here - http://www.mfhn.com/houghton/HeclaCem/ And now, we are finding that some of our family members were buried at Hecla by searching the Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 posted by the Library of Michigan. The Hecla burials are not gathered in one place, and those of us finding new burials at Hecla have no place to post them except Find a Grave which has the smallest listing. I suppose we might have to use Find a Grave and hope that other researchers use it also. I have listed many of my people there, but most are not from the Calumet area. Thanks again. Joseph -----Original Message----- From: mihought-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mihought-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rick Waggener Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:21 AM To: mihought@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MIHOUGHT] Burials at Hecla Cemetery Joseph- I have been working on Find a Grave ( http://www.findagrave.com/ ) and have found it to be a pretty good site for both posting and finding graves. They seem to have an entry for the Hecla Cemetery, currently with 17 graves listed. If you register as a contributor, you can add a record, and include all kinds of stuff in your entry. This includes photos, bios, notes and transcriptions of the headstone. You can also make links to parents or spouses who are also in Find a Grave. Besides grave photos, you can also add a photo of the person with captions. You can actually put together a pretty nice memorial to the person. They claim to have 34 million grave records and growing. I have added a number of original records of my own, and also contacted the original contributors of records of my kin, and asked them to transfer ownership of the entry, so that I can add the information I have. It's really pretty cool. Rick Waggener Walnut Creek, California ________________________________ From: "Martin, Joseph" <MartinJo@lewisu.edu> To: mihought@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:31:09 AM Subject: [MIHOUGHT] Burials at Hecla Cemetery I am aware of the loss of records for those buried at Hecla Cemetery in Laurium, and I know that the cemetery has deteriorated over time, and many grave stones have been lost. I have also found that a few lists of burials exist online. With the publication of the Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 by the Library of Michigan, I have found that some of my folks were buried at Hecla Cemetery. I suppose that others are finding the same burial information on their death records for those who died in the Calumet area. I wonder if there is a place online where we could post the new burials we find for our families. If many people submit their information, we might obtain a fuller listing of those who were buried at Hecla Cemetery. That would be helpful to all of us. Anyone have any suggestions? Joseph Martin Romeoville, Illinois *************************************** This is a themed mail list for discussion of genealogical research and the history of Houghton Co. Michigan. Please respect other list members by staying within this theme. Houghton Co. MIGenWeb http://www.mfhn.com/houghton ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIHOUGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** This is a themed mail list for discussion of genealogical research and the history of Houghton Co. Michigan. Please respect other list members by staying within this theme. Houghton Co. MIGenWeb http://www.mfhn.com/houghton ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIHOUGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Joseph- From what I can tell, most, but not all of the 17 postings at Find a Grave, are also listed in the HKCGS site. Assuming that the HKCGS site would give one permission to do so, one could take the information on the HKCGS site, including the grave photos, and enter them into the Find a grave site. If someone on the HKCGS site had the records on an Excel spreadsheet file, I think they could submit the entire file in that format. They would just need to make sure that the had removed the duplications. It would be a lot to enter the ninety some entries separately, but not too much since there really isn't that much information there. That would solve the problem of having everything in one easily accessible site. Again, the Find a Grave site seems to be pretty widely used and growing, and contains the capacity to enter a lot more information than what is listed in the HKCGS site. I would actually be willing to do this if no one else was interested, although I have never been to this cemetery and have no relatives there. Also, I don't actually have much spare time (I am actually goofing off at work right now and really need to get back to what I am supposed to be doing) and it would probably take me a while. Rick ________________________________ From: "Martin, Joseph" <MartinJo@lewisu.edu> To: mihought@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:14:41 AM Subject: Re: [MIHOUGHT] Burials at Hecla Cemetery Hello Rick, Thanks for your response. I guess you reinforced my point. We do not have any one place for the location of the grave information from Hecla Cemetery. Find a Grave has 17 listings. The Houghton Keweenaw County Genealogical Society has 110 listings here - http://www.hkcgs.org/HeclaSkoviakWebPages/StoneNames.shtm Greg Skoviak and others have posted 92 grave stone photographs from Hecla here - http://www.mfhn.com/houghton/HeclaCem/ And now, we are finding that some of our family members were buried at Hecla by searching the Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 posted by the Library of Michigan. The Hecla burials are not gathered in one place, and those of us finding new burials at Hecla have no place to post them except Find a Grave which has the smallest listing. I suppose we might have to use Find a Grave and hope that other researchers use it also. I have listed many of my people there, but most are not from the Calumet area. Thanks again. Joseph -----Original Message----- From: mihought-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mihought-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rick Waggener Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:21 AM To: mihought@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MIHOUGHT] Burials at Hecla Cemetery Joseph- I have been working on Find a Grave ( http://www.findagrave.com/ ) and have found it to be a pretty good site for both posting and finding graves. They seem to have an entry for the Hecla Cemetery, currently with 17 graves listed. If you register as a contributor, you can add a record, and include all kinds of stuff in your entry. This includes photos, bios, notes and transcriptions of the headstone. You can also make links to parents or spouses who are also in Find a Grave. Besides grave photos, you can also add a photo of the person with captions. You can actually put together a pretty nice memorial to the person. They claim to have 34 million grave records and growing. I have added a number of original records of my own, and also contacted the original contributors of records of my kin, and asked them to transfer ownership of the entry, so that I can add the information I have. It's really pretty cool. Rick Waggener Walnut Creek, California ________________________________ From: "Martin, Joseph" <MartinJo@lewisu.edu> To: mihought@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:31:09 AM Subject: [MIHOUGHT] Burials at Hecla Cemetery I am aware of the loss of records for those buried at Hecla Cemetery in Laurium, and I know that the cemetery has deteriorated over time, and many grave stones have been lost. I have also found that a few lists of burials exist online. With the publication of the Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 by the Library of Michigan, I have found that some of my folks were buried at Hecla Cemetery. I suppose that others are finding the same burial information on their death records for those who died in the Calumet area. I wonder if there is a place online where we could post the new burials we find for our families. If many people submit their information, we might obtain a fuller listing of those who were buried at Hecla Cemetery. That would be helpful to all of us. Anyone have any suggestions? Joseph Martin Romeoville, Illinois *************************************** This is a themed mail list for discussion of genealogical research and the history of Houghton Co. Michigan. Please respect other list members by staying within this theme. Houghton Co. MIGenWeb http://www.mfhn.com/houghton ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIHOUGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** This is a themed mail list for discussion of genealogical research and the history of Houghton Co. Michigan. Please respect other list members by staying within this theme. Houghton Co. MIGenWeb http://www.mfhn.com/houghton ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIHOUGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** This is a themed mail list for discussion of genealogical research and the history of Houghton Co. Michigan. Please respect other list members by staying within this theme. Houghton Co. MIGenWeb http://www.mfhn.com/houghton ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIHOUGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message