Thanks, Brenda, for all the work! I just checked the first page of the cemetery and found a bunch of my BEAMONS. I haven't had a chance to check the rest of the pages, but already have benefited from your hard work! Thanks again! Mary Spurgeon [email protected] Brenda Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: Hello everybody! I have had a hard drive crash at work and spent many hours fixing the problem. Therefore, I received a chunk of comp time this last week. I spent it reading the Sparta cemetery. I had about 70 hours of work in the prep stages before I ever got to the cemetery (I type sloooowww.). It was a beautiful day on Friday, so I spent about 9 hours reading the cemetery and checking it against my 112 pages of preassembled names and dates. I made corrections and added the newcomers. By the end of the day, I was about 2/3's done. I decided to take it easy on myself and go back on Saturday to finish. I made the 45 minute drive home feeling quite satisfied with life -- UNTIL I got in my driveway. I reached for my book and remembered the last place I saw it was on the trunk of my car in the cemetery. I made the 45 minute drive in 5:00 traffic back to Sparta. About a mile from the cemetery I started seeing fluttering pieces of paper strewn along a fence row. My brain did not want to compr! ehend what I was seeing, believe you me. I pulled into the driveway in the middle of the fence row just behind the lady who lived there. She had just arrived home from work to find that she had been "papered". She helped me pick up the pages --even driving out into her field to retrieve a couple. I got to dodge 5:00 Friday evening Highway 14 traffic -- crossing the road to get what had strayed. I then drove the road and walked the ditches for another mile or so on each side of her property. I am covered in chiggers and bites -- but I found all but five of the pages! So after much trial and tribulation, I am ecstatic to annouce that the Sparta Cemetery reading is online and ready for your researching pleasure. Still scratching those darn Christian County Chiggers, Brenda Brenda Gardner Christian County GenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software ==== MOCHRIST Mailing List ==== Remember, you can search the Christian Co list back to 1998 at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Enter MOCHRIST in the search field. ============================== 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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
Mary, It is good to hear from you! Glad you found some of your folks. Let me know if you have any additional info or corrections. Hope all is well with you, Brenda Mary Spurgeon <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks, Brenda, for all the work! I just checked the first page of the cemetery and found a bunch of my BEAMONS. I haven't had a chance to check the rest of the pages, but already have benefited from your hard work! Thanks again! Mary Spurgeon [email protected] Brenda Gardner wrote: Hello everybody! I have had a hard drive crash at work and spent many hours fixing the problem. Therefore, I received a chunk of comp time this last week. I spent it reading the Sparta cemetery. I had about 70 hours of work in the prep stages before I ever got to the cemetery (I type sloooowww.). It was a beautiful day on Friday, so I spent about 9 hours reading the cemetery and checking it against my 112 pages of preassembled names and dates. I made corrections and added the newcomers. By the end of the day, I was about 2/3's done. I decided to take it easy on myself and go back on Saturday to finish. I made the 45 minute drive home feeling quite satisfied with life -- UNTIL I got in my driveway. I reached for my book and remembered the last place I saw it was on the trunk of my car in the cemetery. I made the 45 minute drive in 5:00 traffic back to Sparta. About a mile from the cemetery I started seeing fluttering pieces of paper strewn along a fence row. My brain did not want to compr! ehend what I was seeing, believe you me. I pulled into the driveway in the middle of the fence row just behind the lady who lived there. She had just arrived home from work to find that she had been "papered". She helped me pick up the pages --even driving out into her field to retrieve a couple. I got to dodge 5:00 Friday evening Highway 14 traffic -- crossing the road to get what had strayed. I then drove the road and walked the ditches for another mile or so on each side of her property. I am covered in chiggers and bites -- but I found all but five of the pages! So after much trial and tribulation, I am ecstatic to annouce that the Sparta Cemetery reading is online and ready for your researching pleasure. Still scratching those darn Christian County Chiggers, Brenda Brenda Gardner Christian County GenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software ==== MOCHRIST Mailing List ==== Remember, you can search the Christian Co list back to 1998 at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Enter MOCHRIST in the search field. ============================== 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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software ==== MOCHRIST Mailing List ==== Don't forget the MOGenWeb Archives section.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm ============================== 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 Brenda Gardner Christian County GenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software