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    1. Re: [NYORANGE] Where is the Wallkill Valley Cemetery located ?
    2. Richard VanHouten
    3. It's on the south side of Rt. 52, east of Walden. Danny B wrote: > Wallkill Valley Cemetery is in The Town of Montgomery near Brick Church -- > opposite side of road I believe > > Dan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marty" <k2mi@frontiernet.net> > To: "LIST - Orange Co." <nyorange@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:38 PM > Subject: [NYORANGE] Where is the Wallkill Valley Cemetery located ? > > >> A lady wrote "What county is the Wallkill Valley Cemetery in, Ulster or >> Orange?" >> >> The Find A Grave system gives us "Walden Orange County New York USA". >> >> If you go to the Find A Grave home page at >> http://www.findagrave.com >> and click on "Search for a Cemetery" and plug in the name of any cemetery >> and select a state and you'll see all cemeteries in the findagrave.com >> system >> with that name in that state. Don't select a country or state and you >> will see all >> with that name (in the Find A Grave system) in the world . >> >> Once you display the cemetery, its location normally includes the state >> and county and frequently more exact location, depending on what the >> volunteer put it. Some have explicit directions how to find them by >> road, some have GPS coordinates, and some have maps. >> >> If you're pretty sure a cemetery exists by a given name in a given state >> but it isn't displayed, that could merely mean that nobody has put it >> online yet. >> >> The findagrave.com system has over 30 million gravestone listings >> and many, many thousands of photographs of tombstones. The above >> shows how to search for a cemetery. To search for a person, go to >> the home page and click on "Search 30 million grave records" >> and plug in the person's name and select a state. If found, you might >> get lucky >> and see a photgraph of the tombstone (if the volunteer included one). >> >> All entries in the findagrave.com are made by volunteers, so many >> listings are incomplete. It is growing >very< rapidly...over 800,000 new >> memorials in the past month alone. Tens of thousands of people use >> the system every day. >> >> It's a wonderful, very dynamic system with great potential. >> We just need more volunteers to add known info which is not already >> online. >> >> To become a volunteer, go to their home page at >> http://www.findagrave.com/ >> and click on "Join the Find A Grave Community". >> >> I hope this helps others locate cemeteries and graves in the United >> States. >> >> Marty Irons >> k2mi@frontiernet.net >> findagrave.com volunteer since 2007 >> member of the IRONS DNA project at FamilyTreeDNA.com >> >> PS: My family must have been members of A.A. - Ancestors Anonymous. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

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