***************************************************** UPDATE NEWSLETTER Number Twenty Five - 1 March 2010 ***************************************************** * 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 free-access valuable resource for Genealogists and Descendants of those buried in the cemeteries. * INTERESTED IN ASSISTING..? *********************** 1. If you feel you can help out with this huge, ongoing 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. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block E * 2. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block K - Sect AJ-A * 3. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block K - Sect AJ-B * 4. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block K - Sect AJ-C * 5. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block K - Sect AJ-D * 6. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block K - Sect AJ-24 * 7. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block K - Sect AJ-25 * 8. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block M * 9. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Block Q * 10. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Huronia Regional Center Block * * CEMETERIES IN PROGRESS OR EXPECTED AT THE CANADIAN GRAVEMARKER GALLERY. ********************************************************************** * 1. Alberta, Heartland Region, Innisfail Cemetery. * 2. British Columbia, Southern Okanagan, 5 or 6 Cemeteries. * 3. Ontario, Cochrane District, Black River-Matheson Twp, Shillington Cemetery. * 4. Ontario, Thunder Bay District. Thunder Bay, Mountainview Cemetery - Remaining Areas. * 5. Ontario, Simcoe County, Orillia, St. Andrew's - St. James' Cemetery - Remaining Blocks. * * 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. Murray and volunteers are working 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 being processed. * 13. Alberta, Grande Prairie Region. Work has started on photographing cemeteries. * 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 500 cemeteries completely photographed and onboard, amounting to over 350,000 searchable photographs. There have been over 570,000 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 depend on outside support to exist. However, donations by visitors does 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 Pletsch at: [email protected] or [email protected] - there are no cemeteries too small or too big....! * 6. A comprehensive "Tips and Hints" brochure will 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 tips 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 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 and friends help out by photographing the missing cemeteries....? * * All the best in 2010...Murray Pletsch * Cdn Gravemarker Gallery - http://www.gravemarkers.ca * Ontario Historic Gallery - http://www.rootsweb.com/~cannor *