Sorry not to reply earlier, Heather. I was away all last week. I'm glad you liked the images. I'm going to see if I can do the same with the headstones I shot in Sweetheart Abbey, but that would not be for the Orkney list. David At 12:01 AM 7/21/2008, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:15:20 +0100 >From: Heather Johnson <heatherannej@hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Flotta >To: <orkney@rootsweb.com> > >Hi David What an epic challenge you set yourself ...... well >done. It's nice to see familiar headstones and homes of relatives >in the distance. >Ahhhhhhhh .... I'm having withdrawal symtoms because we didn't make >it up this year :-( > >Heather > > > Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:41:03 -0700> To: orkney@rootsweb.com> > From: davidpalmquist@dccnet.com> Subject: [ORKNEY] Flotta> > This > may be of interest to those with roots on Flotta. I photographed > > most of the gravemarkers in Flotta Kirkyard in May. You can view > them here.> > http://flickr.com/photos/74689067@N00/sets/72157605868935838/> > I > put names on the ones I could read, but there are a few where I > > couldn't make them out well. Those you may be able to see them > > better than I could, if you download the large version of the > image > and then fiddle with lighting and contrast.> > I have two > other Flickr.com sets for Flotta:> > Go here for James Hay's > tunebook. He was my great-great-grandfather, > and was the Society > schoolteacher for 45 years in the mid 1800s.> > For scenes of > Flotta outside the kirkyard, go > here: > http://flickr.com/photos/74689067@N00/sets/72157605471991075/> > > Eventually I'll post the gravestones to my own webpage, but > they'll > sit on Flickr at least! > until my current subscription runs out.> > > David Palmquist,> > Delta, BC> Interests:> Hay, Simpson, Gerrick, Garrioch, Sclater, > Halcro, Swanson, Ritch, > Johnston, Wild> O'Neill, Calvert, > Hartley, McClung, Hair, Hope, Christie, Stevenson> > ========== > ============ =============>