This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: KatherineDBenbow Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.guilford/4278.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The person who posted the original message may know some of this information, but I thought it would be good to clarify this issue for any and all readers, as I get inquiries on the subject at times. The Guilford County Genealogical Society has published a catalog of Buffalo Presbyterian Church cemetery burials. You can order it from their website. It is protected by copyright, and therefore no one can copy that list and publish it to the web. These publications are a major source of revenue for the county society, which publishes an excellent journal, and I do not want to infringe on that in any way. Also, it is a firm policy for USGenWeb not to violate copyright law. I would never even consider doing that, anyway. The only way to post something to the web that is protected by copyright is to get written consent from the copyright holder. The county NCGenWeb site also has a page of people who do look-ups, and one of those individuals should be able to help people with that publication -- or any of the other GCGS publications on cemeteries. GCGS has quite an extensive list. We are fortunate that this county has cemetery publications, as I have ancestors in counties where there is nothing available on burials. If someone compiles their own list of cemetery burials independently, by visiting the cemetery and copying down the data on the graves which interest them, that can be posted to the web, either through the county NCGenWeb site, or through your own website. Some of the BPC burials have been put online, and the Guilford County NCGenWeb site has a link to that partial list. There are two ways to go about submitting data and photos for posting through NCGenWeb. One is to submit them directly to the NC Tombstone Transcription Project, which does accept photos. Go to this link, read the instructions provided, and then go to the state page and find the link for the person in charge of Guilford County: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/ You can also transcribe burials by visiting the cemeteries, and then I will post that information, if you will assure me you did not get the information from a catalog, directly or indirectly. As for photos, considering the population in Guilford and the tens of thousands of burials in the county -- in fact, I would guess it would go into six figures -- I simply cannot manage something that handles any and all photos. I am sensitive to the fact that this is something that website visitors want to find, and so I have been giving consideration to a new project for the Guilford County NCGenWeb site that would post all data received in an acceptable manner (gathered independently and not copied out of a copyrighted publication), but my intent at present is to show photos only of the oldest graves -- which would be of the most value to the largest number of descendants. Otherwise, the county project could get out of hand very quickly. NCGenWeb's Tombstone Transcription Project is willing to take any and all photos. I will issue a message through the Guilford mailing list (not the message board) when I am ready to launch this project. This will not be within the next week, as we have a family wedding coming up, but it will probably be within a month. I need to determine what date limits I want to set on photos. I will probably start with a narrow limit, to see how many submissions that draws, and then enlarge it by small increments in the future -- feeling my way with it. I had been thinking of setting up a special page, titled something like "Pioneers of Guilford County," which would have photos of all very early burials, regardless of the cemetery where they are. And there may be links to short biographies and portraits (where available) of those individuals. Katherine Dick Benbow County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.