I am much more optimistic than that Mary Ellen! LOL I am not that patient! :) Mike Wennin Come Visit the Cameron County Genealogy Project! http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Smith" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:43 AM Subject: [PA-CAMERON] Re: PACAMERO-D Digest V03 #320 > I feel compelled to air this subject one last time. > > Several years ago I wanted to transcribe the headstones of Newton Cemetery. > I contacted Jim Miller about looking through his records as I believe he was > the secretary of either the cemetery or the Historical Society at the time. > He never had the courtesy to respond to my letter but I understand he was > miffed because I suggested that I would bring a computer to Emporium to copy > his records. Apparently not too many people in Emporium care for computers. > (It seems I have some spies in Emporium, basically my relatives.) > > I was finally able to secure, for a small fee, a copy of the document > listing those buried in Newton from Sandy Hornung. The copy she made and > sent to me was corrected, added to, and written over in almost every blank > space. I had to re-type the entire document so that I could read it and get > it into some sort of readable order. > > After I walked the cemetery and noted the names on headstones that had not > been included in the list I got from Sandy, I retyped the new list on clean > white paper and even made a copy that I offered to Sandy FOR FREE only to > have her turn me down. I was absolutely floored. And I would bet that she > is STILL copying that old overwritten copy to anyone requesting a copy of > the burials. Apparently she doesn't think much of computers, either, and > she's only 1 year older than I am. (Honestly, I think my life would be very > dull without my computer.) > > Unfortunately there are probably people out there who do not realize that > the burials are all listed on the Cameron Co. website and can be searched > for free. I never realized there were so many cemeteries in Cameron Co. I > have the OLD list of burials for St. Marks Cemetery in my possession, thanks > to Mike, and plan to start working on it for inclusion on the website as > soon as I finish the 1880 census and the 1900 census. (Also have the 1920 > census to do, as well.) All in good time. I will never die because I have > too much to do and will probably never fiish. > > Here's to a more forward-looking group of people. Good luck with changing > the mind-set of the Historical Society. You may have to wait a full > generation before anything meaningful happens. > > Mary Ellen (Overmier) Smith > > _________________________________________________________________ > Is your computer infected with a virus? Find out with a FREE computer virus > scan from McAfee. Take the FreeScan now! > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > > ==== PACAMERO Mailing List ==== > List your surnames in the Queries section of the Site to get the full benefit of what there is to offer. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero >