Hello... I have a few questions on putting the cem transcriptions online, and I would like for any "figgerin'" you do to be posted to the list. Sometime this weekend, I should be uploading maps to the WRV/Taney site. I have done one that has the territory Taney County covered pre-1850 to 1864. I've done a modern-day political township map. I also finally found my copy of a 1913 Taney map, and 2 versions of it--one's done--will be going up. These latter two maps are in color (which the original wasn't). This is where my questions are... One of them is for the "T 24 N, R 17 W" stuff. It shows the towns which were in existence in 1913, and also individual township numbers, of which there are 24. (I got the latter from a current county index map). I don't think one has anything to do with the other--the T & R numbers are for surveys and land deeds, the other for use at the county level (I THINK...always get into trouble doin' that). BUT... As you will see, the individual townships are not anywhere equal in size, and I'm not sure that I've done the readings right for the "big" township numbers. If they are wrong, let me know so I can fix it. I don't know if where the boundaries fall matters when it comes to reading deeds correctly. Then... I've not sent out the notebook transcription copies because I'm still pondering the right way to do it. I want to have a system in place when the volunteers start sending their work back to me, otherwise I'll get inundated. Being the persistently-questioning individual that I am, it does me no good knowing the T & R numbers when looking through a transcription. I want to SEE where it is. "Ergo", the T & R map with individual twp numbers. So... I don't have the ability/know-how to let you point at a spot on the map, click and then go to that cemetery's transcription. The ability to do that is supposed to be happening within the next year (someone else is supposed to be doing that), with a "state of the art" website linked to what I will have already online, so we don't do any doubling up. What I want to do is have the map to look at available, then have cems, towns, etc., listed on separate pages for each of the 24 townships. Then you will be able to click on the cem name, and go to the list of individuals buried there. If you have a general idea of where your people lived, there shouldn't be a lot of backtracking. This I can do, and this makes sense to me. Does it to anyone else? There are no section numbers, but I'll find a link to that sort of thing (there's a page at Rootsweb) so that you can familiarize yourself with the US method of townships, ranges, and sections; then you can guessitmate exactly where the cem is. Again, the new website planned for next year is supposed to be able to do that. Plus, all Taney Co. cems are supposed to be on the GPS mapping system, so you can go there to find it. If I sound confused, I'm really not. I'm just not wording it right. I don't want to just list the cems, then leave you wondering where the heck it is, in relation to where your people lived. What do you think? Vonda