********************************************* ******************************************************** UPDATE NEWSLETTER Number Twenty Nine - 1 July 2010 - HAPPY CANADA DAY...!!! ************************************************************************ * OBJECTIVES. ********* * 1. The objective of this *Update Newsletter* is to itemize and publish monthly additions and changes to The Canadian Gravemarker Gallery website. * 2. The Main Objective of the *Canadian Gravemarker Gallery* is to collect and process photographed grave markers of entire cemeteries from across Canada and place the photos online as a valuable free-access resource for Genealogists; and Descendants of those buried in the cemeteries. * * NEWS BULLETIN. ************ * It is noteworthy to mention that the huge St. Andrews'-St. James' Cemetery in Orillia is almost completely photographed and online thanks mainly to the interest and camera work of Olive Taylor. Block P will be online in the next few days, which only leaves Block L. How big is this cemetery...? Well...it has 26 good sized Blocks with Block K having 26 of its own Sections. Add the Huronia Regional Center and 8 columbarium walls and the grand total of photographs likely totals out around 25 - 30,000 grave marker photos...! Cemetery crawlers may be 'plumb tuckered out' before they finish crawling this whole cemetery. * * NEED A CHALLENGE..? **************** * 1. If you "have camera and will travel" to your local Canadian cemeteries, then we, at the Canadian Gravemarker Gallery would welcome your assistance, publish your name giving you full credit for your work and Family Researchers from around the world will be eternally grateful to you. * 2. If you feel you would like to help out with this huge, ongoing free project, please read the document located at: http://www.gravemarkers.ca/assist.htm for more details. * * NEW ENTIRE CEMETERIES ADDED/UPDATED ON THE CANADIAN GRAVEMARKER GALLERY. ********************************************************************** * 1. Eastern Ontario, Leeds and Grenville County, Rideau Lakes Twp, Westport Presbyterian. * 2. Eastern Ontario, Leeds and Grenville County, Rideau Lakes Twp, Westport, Palmer Burial Ground. * 3. Central Ontario, Simcoe County, Severn Township, Everitt, St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery. * 4. Central Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's-St. James' Cemetery, Block N. * 5. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Faraday Township, Bancroft, Mount Pleasant Cemetery. * 6. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Faraday Township, Bancroft area, Trinity Anglican Cemetery. * 7. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Faraday Township, Bancroft area, Lower Faraday Vader Cemetery. * 8. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Rawdon Township, Mt. Pleasant, Bethel United Cemetery. * 9. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Mayo Township, Hartsmere, Long Lake Cemetery. * 10. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Tyendinaga Township, Deseronto, Christ Church Anglican Cemetery. * 11. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Wollaston Twp, Salem Pioneer Cemetery. * 12. Central Ontario, Simcoe County, Everitt, Adjala-Tosorontio Twp, St. David's Anglican Cemetery. * 13. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Brunel Township, St. Mary's RC Cemetery. * 14 Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Brunel Township, Lock's Cemetery. * 15. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Brunel Twp, Newholm, Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery. * 16. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Brunel Twp, Lewis (Pinegrove) Cemetery. * 17. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Medora Twp, Morinus, St. John's Cemetery. * 18. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Medora Twp, Minett, Christ Church Anglican Cemetery-Gregory. * 19. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Morrison Twp, Morrison United Cemetery. * 20. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Stephenson Twp, Beatrice, St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery. * 21. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Stephenson Twp, McNichol Cemetery. * 22. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Stephenson Twp, Madill, United Church cemetery. * 23. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Stephenson Twp, Madill, St. Michael's Anglican Cemetery. * 24. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Stephenson Twp, Madill, Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery. * 25. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Stephenson Twp, Lancelot, St. George's Cemetery. * 26. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Stephenson Twp, Port Sydney, Stephenson Memorial Cemetery. * 27. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Watt Twp, Ufford, Doherty Road Cemetery. * 28. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Watt Twp, Ullswater, Ullswater Cemetery-North. * 29. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Watt Twp, Ullswater, Ullswater Cemetery-South. * 30. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Watt Twp, Ullswater, St. Thomas Anglican Cemetery. * 31. New Brunswick, Queens County, Scotchtown, Hanselpacker Private Cemetery. * 32. New Brunswick, Kings County, Quispamsis, First Rothesay Baptist Cemetery. * * CEMETERIES IN PROGRESS OR EXPECTED AT THE CANADIAN GRAVEMARKER GALLERY. ********************************************************************** * 1. Alberta, Heartland Region, Innisfail Cemetery. * 2. British Columbia, Southern Okanagan, Kelowna, 2 cemeteries. * 3. Central Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's-St. James' Cemetery. Block L. * 4. Central Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's-St. James' Cemetery. Block N. * 5. Central Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's-St. James' Cemetery. Block P. * 6. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Wollaston Twp, St. Andrew's Cemetery. * 7. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Dungannon Twp, Egan Creek Cemetery. * 8. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Dungannon Twp, Grace United Cemetery. * 9. Central Ontario, Hastings County, Marmora Twp, St. Matilda R.C. Cemetery. * 10. Northern Ontario, Cochrane District, Black River-Matheson Twp, Shillington Cemetery. * 11 Northern Ontario, Thunder Bay District, Thunder Bay, Mountainview Cemetery - Remaining Blocks. * 12. Northern Ontario, Temiskaming District, Teck Twp, Kirkland Lake Cemetery, Block D (partial). * 13. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Watt Township, Port Carling Cemetery. * 14. Northern Ontario. Muskoka District, Watt Township, Ufford United Cemetery. * 15. Northern Ontario. Muskoka District, Watt Township, Ufford Anglican Cemetery. * 16. New Brunswick, Kings County, Quispamsis, 1 cemetery. * * OVERVIEW PROGRESS REPORT. ************************ * 1. Ontario, Renfrew County is now completely online. * 2. Ontario, Nipissing District is completely online. * 3. Ontario, Parry Sound District is completely online. * 4. Ontario, Timiskaming District. The Kirkland Lake and Elk Lake cemeteries may be fully online in 2009. * 5. Ontario, Kenora District. Kenora, Keewatin and Sioux Falls-Nestor Twp cemeteries are online. * 6. Ontario, Rainy River District. Volunteers are continuing work on Rainy River cemeteries. * 7. Ontario, Muskoka District. Good headway is being made on Muskoka District cemeteries. * 8. Ontario, Manitoulin District. Many cemeteries are online. * 9. Ontario, Cochrane District. Work continues on Timmins Memorial Cemetery and other cemeteries. * 10. Ontario, Hastings County. Work continues on Hasting County cemeteries. * 11. British Columbia, Thompson-Okanagan Region. Additional cemeteries are being processed. * 12. Nova Scotia, Cumberland County. Additional cemeteries are expected. * * WEBSITE NEWS. ************ * 1. At the Canadian Gravemarker Gallery, which is online at: http://gravemarkers.ca ..we can accommodate unlimited numbers of photographs of complete cemeteries from anywhere in Canada. The photographers and/or organizations are given credit on the website for their interest and hard work. * 2. This long established, free-access National Site is proud to announce that there are more than 600 cemeteries completely photographed and onboard, amounting to over 350,000 searchable photographs. There have been over 580,000 visitors to the site. Each day there are over 200 folks browsing the site and there are over 10,000 name searches each month. * 3. This site is not "Sponsored" and therefore does not "dance to some company's tune" and will remain that way. However, there are some moderate expenses involved and donations of funds or gas cards by visitors certainly do help with gasoline to reach unphotographed cemeteries. * 4. If you have family or friends anywhere in Canada, who may be interested in photographing their local cemeteries, please inform them of the availability of The Canadian Gravemarker Gallery. Their photographed cemeteries will have world wide exposure on this National Cemetery website. * 5. If you and/or your organization is interested in your local cemeteries going online, please contact Murray P l e t s c h at: [email protected] or [email protected] - there are no cemeteries too big or too small...! * 6. A comprehensive "Tips and Hints" brochure can be sent to all interested folks....to help them get started photographing entire cemeteries. * * SUBSCRIBING TO THE WEBSITE UPDATES NEWSLETTER: ******************************************** * Don't miss future monthly updates. Subscribe to the automatic Gravemarker Galleries Newsletter. Please go to the Website at: http://www.gravemarkers.ca and click on the "Join Updates Newsletter" button located just above the weather row. * * HELPFUL HINTS: ************* * 1. Cemeteries online have spousal duplicated photographs. This means a photo of a stone which also has the spouse's maiden name showing, is duplicated and when one searches using the onboard search engine, for a surname, the spouse's surname will be reported as a separate "search result". * 2. If your "search engine" keyword is the same as a city, town, village, township then please read the valuable tip below: * A. *CONCERN:* If your "search engine" keyword you are using is say: pembrok* then your search will pick up all the pembroke surnames....*BUT* ...it will also pick up all the website pages where pembroke is used as a heading or meta name. * B. *SOLUTION:* Change your keyword to: pembrok1 and the search engine will only pick up the gravemarkers with the pembroke surname. * 3. If you don't see a Community and its' cemeteries online...it means a volunteer has not photographed and sent me the cemetery photographs. Can you or some of your family or friends help out by photographing the missing cemeteries....? * * FEEDBACK ******* * We are always interested in feedback from Visitors. If you have any questions or suggestions to improve the Canadian Gravemarker Gallery please do not hesitate to send your concerns or suggestions to: [email protected] * * ********************************************* Warmest regards...........Murray P l e t s c h * Cdn Gravemarker Gallery - http://gravemarkers.ca * Ont Historic Gallery - http://rootsweb.com/~cannor *