Sent from my iPhone > > > > Is the Dave Marsh mentioned herein by any chance the same who started kindergarten in Whipple School in 1945? If so I'd enjoy hearing from him. My address is jbc1140@earthlink.net. Thanks. Jim Canfield > >> Hello TIGS listers - >> >> If you are interested in helping in this project (described below) please >> reply to me off-list - christine.connell@gmail.com I'm tentatively >> suggesting June 21 or June 28 (both Saturdays) but with the daylight >> lasting into the evening, perhaps a few hours on a weeknight in late June >> would also give us time to get a lot of cataloging done. If interested >> please let me know your availability and date/time preferences. >> >> At several recent TIGS meetings, we talked about a project to assist the >> Lansingburgh Historical Society (LHS) in completing the cataloging of >> gravestones at the Lansingburgh Village Burial Ground (LVBG) and the >> adjacent Old Catholic Cemetery (OCC). Here's some background info on both >> cemeteries >> http://www.lansingburghhistoricalsociety.org/Lansingburgh_Cemeteries.html >> >> I recently met at the cemetery with Dave Marsh and John Ward of LHS. Dave >> Marsh told me that LVBG was already 2/3 cataloged on a spreadsheet. I would >> think that the remaining rows could be done easily in a day, even adding >> photographs and doing some minimal stone cleanup (old, old, old, and many >> unreadable). After finishing LVBG we could move across the street and >> catalog the smaller OCC >> >> Both men thought it would be a great idea for TIGS to publish the completed >> catalog on the TIGS website, as they have limited space and expertise to >> implement changes like this on their site. >> >> I understand we all have many other commitments, especially around >> graduation time, but I think we could make great progress with a small >> group of people in just a few hours. >> >> Thanks for reading ... and hope you can join us >> ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== >> Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: >> Troy Irish Genealogy Society >> www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ >> Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC list administrator, send an email to > NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC mailing list, send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC Digest, Vol 9, Issue 118 > ****************************************************