I simply had to reply to this one too! :) Kimberly Powell has great articles! Thanks again Sally for sharing them on NewGen. It seems that for some reason when we are traveling the days we set aside for cemetery research collide with Mother Nature more often than not. We end up in a remote country cemetery and out of the blue comes a dreadful rain storm. There isn't an extra day to come back, so we try to take photos until we are driven to our car from the storm that just wont let up, we finally are the ones who give up. So often this has happened that many of my cemetery photos are not very good, and we don't have the time or money to make a trip hundreds of miles away again. HOWEVER...there is help to be had! Bless those who are hard at work preserving the records! Many of the cemetery web sites, www.findagrave.com , for one fine example have folks who are posting photos of stones. I had poor photos of one in Oklahoma and a very kind soul went out to the cemetery and took photos and sent them to me by email JPEG so I could post them on my web site. Many county sites have volunteers who will help with photos of stones and who are already busily photographing the tombstones of the old cemeteries. Many cousins have shared with me from all around the nation, on recent trips they have made. In turn I have gone out locally and taken photos for some folks who live far away and sent them by regular mail as I dont have a new camera. It took longer for her to get the photos than if I had a digital camera, but they were thrilled to get them and it was such an easy task on my part. Again SHARING is the key Sue Ellen "Life is what happens while you are making other plans"