Find a grave is a good source of cemetery information, but there are local sources that are as good or better. In Allen County Indiana the Mary Penrose Daughters of the American Revolutions has photographed most of the smaller cemeteries in Allen County, and are now working on the large cemeteries. These photos are all on line at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inallcem/ The nice thing about this site is they start in the front corner and photograph every grave until they get to the back opposite corner. If there is a stone there is a picture, so if your ancestor is not there, the stone does not exist. Interestingly for one of my ancestors we were able to identify his stone in a photo of an unreadable stone. I had found the receipt for his tombstone is some very old papers I inherited. Based on the invoice and the photo we identified his stone. The DAR placed the invoice on their site along with the picture. I wonder how many 130 year old stones have been identified using the original purchase order? Guns get blamed in shootings because the liberals say teaching the Ten Commandments with "Thou shall not kill" violate the separation of Church and State. On 12/29/2012 11:28 AM, Michelle Fegley Wahrenberger wrote: > I am deeply saddened by what happened at Aulenbach. I live in Ohio and we > had a bad wind storm last spring and a cemetery with many trees was badly > hit and many trees lost large limbs which destroyed a lot of tombstones as > well. So nature can destroy as well as man. > > Anyway one thing I am doing is I am photographing an entire cemetery, and > putting the photos on FindAGrave.com. Perhaps some of you could help, by > spending a spare hour in a cemetery and photographing part of it and > uploading the photos on Find A Grave. I have found some of my ancestors > burial places from Find A Grave. There are people around the country and > internationally who would benefit from this. I have received 2 international > thank yous, for my effort. I have photographed almost all of Good Shepherd I > may have missed some plus they are adding regularly. I currently have most > of the back sections of Alsace Cemetery photographed. I am currently putting > on the last section in the back. I still have to photograph the old section > beside Grace Alsace Church. I will do this probably in March on my next > visit. > > Michelle in Ohio > > > ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== > PABERKS@rootsweb.com > > To contact the List Administrator: > Rick Berkheiser, PABERKS-admin@rootsweb.com > > To visit the Berks Message Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks > > To visit the Berks County, PA website: > http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ > Hosted by Nancy Freehafer > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PABERKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Never found a headstone through a receipt. But did find in an estate accounting for one of my ancestorsand entry for payment to the carpenter that built his coffin. The carpenter owned a furniture building company. > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:53:27 -0500 > From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net > To: paberks@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PABERKS] Terrible act > > Find a grave is a good source of cemetery information, but there are > local sources that are as good or better. In Allen County Indiana the > Mary Penrose Daughters of the American Revolutions has photographed most > of the smaller cemeteries in Allen County, and are now working on the > large cemeteries. These photos are all on line at > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inallcem/ > > The nice thing about this site is they start in the front corner and > photograph every grave until they get to the back opposite corner. If > there is a stone there is a picture, so if your ancestor is not there, > the stone does not exist. Interestingly for one of my ancestors we were > able to identify his stone in a photo of an unreadable stone. I had > found the receipt for his tombstone is some very old papers I > inherited. Based on the invoice and the photo we identified his > stone. The DAR placed the invoice on their site along with the > picture. I wonder how many 130 year old stones have been identified > using the original purchase order? > > > > Guns get blamed in shootings because the liberals say teaching the Ten > Commandments with "Thou shall not kill" violate the separation of Church > and State. > On 12/29/2012 11:28 AM, Michelle Fegley Wahrenberger wrote: > > I am deeply saddened by what happened at Aulenbach. I live in Ohio and we > > had a bad wind storm last spring and a cemetery with many trees was badly > > hit and many trees lost large limbs which destroyed a lot of tombstones as > > well. So nature can destroy as well as man. > > > > Anyway one thing I am doing is I am photographing an entire cemetery, and > > putting the photos on FindAGrave.com. Perhaps some of you could help, by > > spending a spare hour in a cemetery and photographing part of it and > > uploading the photos on Find A Grave. I have found some of my ancestors > > burial places from Find A Grave. There are people around the country and > > internationally who would benefit from this. I have received 2 international > > thank yous, for my effort. I have photographed almost all of Good Shepherd I > > may have missed some plus they are adding regularly. I currently have most > > of the back sections of Alsace Cemetery photographed. I am currently putting > > on the last section in the back. I still have to photograph the old section > > beside Grace Alsace Church. I will do this probably in March on my next > > visit. > > > > Michelle in Ohio > > > > > > ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== > > PABERKS@rootsweb.com > > > > To contact the List Administrator: > > Rick Berkheiser, PABERKS-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > To visit the Berks Message Board: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks > > > > To visit the Berks County, PA website: > > http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ > > Hosted by Nancy Freehafer > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PABERKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== > PABERKS@rootsweb.com > > To contact the List Administrator: > Rick Berkheiser, PABERKS-admin@rootsweb.com > > To visit the Berks Message Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks > > To visit the Berks County, PA website: > http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ > Hosted by Nancy Freehafer > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PABERKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message