This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gravehunternc Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.wilkes/7246/mb.ashx Message Board Post: On behalf of the Surry County Genealogical Association (SCGA), we are happy to announce that our Cemetery Project is now on the Internet. Photographs are still being loaded and it may be a few more weeks before all the pictures are added. At present there are over 300 cemeteries listed and we will be visiting and documenting more cemeteries and adding them to the web site as time permits. The address is: http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/surr/index.htm When looking at the data, you may see cemetery surveys of burials with some of our data. That information, however, was not part of our project but has been included by the web site owner as an additional feature either thru the donation of the data from others, or sharing of existing survey data from other web sites. Our project was to locate cemeteries (their physical location and a GPS coordinate), provide driving directions, identify physical condition, plus take some photos of the area we surveyed. We want to thank a few SCGA members for their tireless efforts for "wandering in the woods" in order to find these cemeteries since without them, this project would have not been possible. They are Andy Hennis of Mt. Airy (past President of SCGA), Joe Hicks of Elkin (who continues to uncover new cemeteries in the western part of Surry), Wilma Hiatt, Diane Niston, and myself. As we continue to hear about and find cemeteries, we'd also like to hear from others if you know of a cemetery not shown in our list. If so, just send an Email to me or to the contact listed on the above website. Minimum data needed is the name of the cemetery (and alias names if known), directions to the cemetery from a given point (example, from the intersection of 2 roads, etc), miles driven between points, left turns and right turns, etc., condition of the cemetery, and names of the occupants if you have them. Also, if you already have a GPS reading that would be great! And if you want to volunteer to help us, just drop us a line and we'd love to talk to you. Also, we send a special and well deserved "thanks" to the web site owner, Allen Dew. Without his technical expertise, creativity, and tireless efforts in organizing and categorizing the data for us (and others), none of this would have happened. We trust our efforts will be of great benefit to all genealogists and researchers for years to come. Bob Carter Greensboro, NC 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.