Sent from my LG Mobile Christine Connell <christine.connell@gmail.com> wrote: >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