Hi Kathy, I forwarded your request to a colleague asking if he photographs there. People outside the area don't realize that headstone photography in NYC is not merely "stopping by." Cemeteries may have multiple entrances, sections that are miles away from each other crossing over major urban highways, and rows labeled from A-ZZ---that's 52 headstones back from the path. Headstones may be camouflaged with vines (including poison ivy) and have faded or illegible inscriptions. As a headstone photographer, many times I'd get to the requester's location to discover that no headstone existed, or the location is scarily isolated, or the wrong location was provided. This adds the step of verifying each request with the cemetery office, if it is open or one exists. Snakes, mud, bees, and soaring temps [today's index = 100] are additional reasons why less folks volunteer to perform such acts of kindness that will take at least an hour to perform. Major NYC cemeteries are not the sweet, bucolic places one imagines in the county. I'd never expect anyone to perform the task fee free. Barb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eaine LaGreca via elainelagreca@optonline.net RAOGK.com is back online but the list of volunteers is not what it oncewas.There is a Cara Lowry on the RAOGK.com list who is volunteering totakephotos at both GreenWood Cemetery and Holy Cross Cemetery. ElaineLong Island, New York Kathy via ktzndgs@me.com I am hoping to getphotos of a couple of graves in Holy Cross. If anyonedoes that or will be atthe cemetery and can stop by the graves please letme know? There are twosites. One of the photos is for a cousin in Irelandwith aunts and unclesburied in HC.Kathy

That's the beauty of findagrave and these other sites, there are folks who do it for free. One thing I did forget to say is that for most of the NYC requests, the requester needs to make sure the grave location is included in the request. Gail Sent from my AT&T iPhone. ~ Gail ~ > On Jul 29, 2015, at 08:17, mizscarlettny via <nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > I'd never expect anyone to perform the task fee free.

I have a cousin in Westbury and have asked her to take a trip to Brooklyn to spend time at the cemetery. Hopefully now I won’t need to wait for someone else to go. Kathy > On Jul 29, 2015, at 11:17 AM, mizscarlettny via <nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Hi Kathy, > > I forwarded your request to a colleague asking if he photographs there. > > People outside the area don't realize that headstone photography in NYC is not > merely "stopping by." Cemeteries may have multiple entrances, sections that are miles away from each other crossing over major urban highways, and rows labeled from A-ZZ---that's 52 headstones back from the path. > > Headstones may be camouflaged with vines (including poison ivy) and have faded or illegible inscriptions. As a headstone photographer, many times I'd get to the requester's location to discover that no headstone existed, or the location is scarily isolated, or the wrong location was provided. This adds the step of verifying each request with the cemetery office, if it is open or one exists. > > Snakes, mud, bees, and soaring temps [today's index = 100] are additional reasons why > less folks volunteer to perform such acts of kindness that will take at least an hour to perform. > > Major NYC cemeteries are not the sweet, bucolic places one imagines in the county. > I'd never expect anyone to perform the task fee free. > > Barb > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Eaine LaGreca via elainelagreca@optonline.net > RAOGK.com is back online but the list of volunteers is not what it oncewas.There is a Cara Lowry on the RAOGK.com list who is volunteering totakephotos at both GreenWood Cemetery and Holy Cross Cemetery. > ElaineLong Island, New York > > Kathy via ktzndgs@me.com > I am hoping to getphotos of a couple of graves in Holy Cross. If anyonedoes that or will be atthe cemetery and can stop by the graves please letme know? There are twosites. One of the photos is for a cousin in Irelandwith aunts and unclesburied in HC.Kathy > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYBROOKLYN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message