hello everyone, i finally got my email account straighten out. tons of emails dating back to september of 2002. will take time to sort out the spam and responding to emails. here is one email which the cc might be interested in. oh, here is the check-in for oct. too. bye for now, sam-quito The NMDI Project is in the process of indexing the 1930 NM Census. We need your help and for more info, click on: http://www.nmia.com/~samquito/otherprojects.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A message from Sam-Quito Padilla G. NM Death Index Project Head Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmdi.htm NMGenWeb Archives File Manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmfiles.htm NMGenWeb County Coordinator for Sierra, Socorro & Valencia http://www.nmgenweb.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <GaryW5678@aol.com> To: <samquito@nmia.com> Sent: Friday, 24 January, 2003 03:06 Subject: Cemeteries of New Mexico > Hi, I would like to tell you about a new website that is up and coming. A > website devoted to cemeteries in New Mexico. It will feature html pages, > allowing submitters to not only show the listings of those buried there, but > will also allow for photographs of the cemetery itself. Though it is not our > goal to show every tombstone, it is our intent to show what that cemetery or > burial site is like when actually being there in person, even if the viewer > could never be there themselves. We generally except three types of > photographs for publication. 1) A general shot of the cemetery showing it's > natural character and vegitation. 2) a cemetery gate or entrance shot. 3-4) a > few shots of really unique or special markers, monuments or statuary. These > can be special for who the person was, or what they did, famous, infamous, > military, etc. Each photo should be submitted at these specifications: the > longest side of the photo should be 10 inches long (vertical or horizontal) > at 72dpi or better. This is the minimum. Each photo should be well done, > sharp, clear, and pleasing to the eye. We already have some amazing shots. > Take a moment and surf our site, and you'll see what I mean. > (www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/NewMexico/Index.html) our new location > <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nm/topic/cemeteries"> > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nm/topic/cemeteries</A> our previous location but > still running. > Eventually we will have our own .com site for New Mexico too. > > The other two major contributions per cemetery are: Driving locations from > the nearest town, and cemetery history. > > We are looking currently for County Coordinators, someone who will make > contacts for us, and help us to develop the website. Their job will be to > gather a listing of every cemetery and burial site in that county. To acquire > the driving directions to the cemeteries themselves. To coordinate the > approval for republication of previously published works, and to find people > to transcribe those previous listings into digital form. We must have proof > of permission to republish copyrighted work. We recommend Microsoft excell > for this. The format we use for the listing itself is: (Last name, Given > names, Birth, Death, Comments.) Each column should be seperated this way. To > coordinate the transcribing of new listings for cemeteries where listings > don't already exist. And to do the same to update old listings. To find > people to volunteer for lookups in their area, or county wide. Either by > books they own themselves, or through their local genealogy library. And to > find people to be local contacts. This is a person who will actually go to a > cemetery in question to visit it and to acquire photographs or inscriptions > the browser may want. > > If you enjoy this sort of thing, we would love to hear from you, and to > correspond with you about this opportunity to be a county coordinator, and to > help people with their research. This is a chance for you to preserve > history, one that is steadily deterriorating. If you are interested, please > write to me at: GaryW5678@aol.com > > Gary Webb > > Cemeteries of Texas - Cofounder, <A HREF="http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com"> > http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com</A> > Cemeteries of New Mexico - Founder, <A > HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nm/topic/cemeteries"> > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nm/topic/cemeteries</A> > Cemeteries of Oklahoma - Founder <A > HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ok/topic/cemeteries/"> > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ok/topic/cemeteries</A> > My Family; A book for Sarah and Ryan - Author, <A > HREF="http://www.geocities.com/garyw5678">http://www.geocities.com/garyw5678 > </A> >

Good morning. Gary Webb has a nice web site at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nm/topic/cemeteries = Cemeteries of NM. I've known Gary for several years. I encourage anyone to send him your surveyed cemeteries and any related photos. It would help NM researchers if he could reproduce all of the cemetery surveys in the Archives. (As information, on the Policy Statement appearing on the web site, I am listed as a General Member to that site.) The NM Tombstones Project is doing well. We are working on about 600 photos at this time. Submitters should know that no special photographic imaging skill is required to submit a photo. We handle the editing and re-sizing. Those who know how to editing are encouraged to do so before submitting, but it is not necessary. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nmtombstones/ NM Tombstones is a project by Marcena Thompson, a NMGenWeb CC and a very active NM volunteer genealogist. The NM FGS Project: We are slightly ahead of other states our size in the number of FGSs submitted. I hope we will break thru the 100 mark this coming week. We have over 90 today. If you like to submit a NM FGS, there are two ways. Visit the site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usfgs/newmexico/ to see the forms. If there is substantial interest by NM CC's, I'd be proud to convert NM FGS to a NMGenWeb Special Project. That will require authority from the SC to rootsweb (or another host) for web space. The existing web space is owned by the FGS Project. (I am the manager of the NM FGS Project.) Have a great day everyone, Charles Barnum