After reading Joe Bryer's message posted yesterday, it seems that what many of us want to have access to is being worked on already. Joe, from your message, it sounds as though the official project has to do with capturing data in the written records. What about the actual tombstones? You mention the GRSNP "file of pictures of tombstones." Is there some way these are being added to, to avoid duplication? I am wondering, if, in addition to PA-LAC listers helping with data entry (if they want to make a contribution to the Society's computer-indexing efforts) there is some systematic way to contribute to the file of pictures of tombstones from Cathedral Cem. in order to help complete the file for merging with the computerized data whenever that is available. There's lots of interest in other cemeteries, too. Could you clarify the photo part of what you described? I await information as the diocesan project proceeds. Certainly our willingness to do whatever we can to help genealogists access these invaluable records expresses intense interest as well as--I speak for myself--frustration at the difficulties. Both St. Mary's in Dunmore and Cathedral Cem. have had major wipeouts of old records. They're the two places where all my ancestors were buried from 1800's on. It seems important to salvage the material evidence--the tombstones--while they're still here, as well as preserve the fragile paper records. I am very pleased to know the records are being saved, and I have been amazed at the expressions of cooperation and interest from all the many listers who responded to the idea of changing what we've been up against--what Joe describes as "the last with the least." Anne