I posted many images of monuments from the Flotta kirkyard on www.Flickr.com site this year. Just go there and search for Flotta Kirkyard. I agree many are no longer legible. A website is only as permanent as the person who hosts it. I wonder if Orkney Family History Society would welcome copies of the headstone images burnt to CD for them? David Palmquist Message: 2 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:46:50 +0100 From: "William Sinclair" <sensiblegrandad@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Orkney Gravestones To: orkney@rootsweb.com In relation to headstones I could not agree more with James Irvine (by the way your book is excellent). As you are aware I have been working on a database of Sinclair's and related families starting off in South Ronaldsay and then throughout Orkney, and when I was up in Orkney I photographed all the stones in St Peters graveyard with Sinclair on them. These will be going onto the site and linked to the individual and families, so that if you select a particular person and there is a headstone you will be shown this. A number of them are very difficult to read right now. Both myself and Lisa Conrad would welcome photographs of headstones as Lisa has a section dedicated to showing these. In Lisa's case they are all South Ronaldsay, in mine as long as they are Orkney related and I have that person or family in the database we would be pleased to receive them. This would help ensure that we will still be able to see the headstones and so would future generations as well as read the transcriptions. I hope I have not spoken out of turn for Lisa on this and if I have she will let me know :-), as she has a lot on her plate at the moment. Willie Sinclair ========== ============ ============= Check out http://ellingtonweb.ca ========== ============ ============= from www.BuyOrkney.com The three Statistical Accounts of Scotland, in which ministers described their parishes, can make entertaining reading. In 1842, Rev Adam White of North Ronaldsay made the following observations. "There was then [twelve years ago] but one cart in the island, which was never used, as the horse showed some disinclination to go into it." "There is no merchant, no baker, no shoemaker, no innkeeper; and the consolation of being without the last, is almost enough to reconcile one to the inconvenience arising from the absence of the rest." "In general habits, the people are, now at least, remarkably decent and sober." ============= ========== ============ ============= Be kinder than necessary,for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. ========== ============ ============= ========== It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply be kind to others. ========== ============ ============= ========