List Readers: In the early days of British history, the ceremony of christening an English ship was usually performed by a member of the Royal Family and a male, but sometimes by a dockyard commissioner - but again a male did the job. In 1811 King George IV introduced the first lady to sponsor the christening. Well, to me that is good news because I am a lady and I just christened one big project - Monett IOOF. This oversized burial ground has been christened with about 20 new entires on the web - and she is off and sailing now. I have prepared the first 996 photos for posting from what I will call Folder 1. As we speak the first 200 of them are on the web and I have begun posting from them. Look at it like this - there are only 5,000 more to go! http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/cemetery/monett/monett.htm I expect it will take me about 5 months to post it all. And again, thanks to Jay Trace, for this huge piece of work. Donna Cooper

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Cooper" <saarisr@sbcglobal.net> To: <mobarry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:57 PM Subject: [MOBARRY] Monett IOFF > List Readers: In the early days of British history, the ceremony of > christening an English ship was usually performed by a member of the Royal > Family and a male, but sometimes by a dockyard commissioner - but again a > male did the job. In 1811 King George IV introduced the first lady to > sponsor the christening. > > Well, to me that is good news because I am a lady and I just christened > one > big project - Monett IOOF. This oversized burial ground has been > christened > with about 20 new entires on the web - and she is off and sailing now. > > I have prepared the first 996 photos for posting from what I will call > Folder 1. As we speak the first 200 of them are on the web and I have > begun > posting from them. Look at it like this - there are only 5,000 more to go! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/cemetery/monett/monett.htm > > I expect it will take me about 5 months to post it all. And again, thanks > to > Jay Trace, for this huge piece of work. > > Donna Cooper > > > Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is Donna > Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message