* OBJECTIVE. ********* * The aim of this Upgrade Newsletter is to itemize and publish the changes and additions to The Canadian Gravemarker Gallery website. * SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY. ****************** * * This "free-access" website celebrates its Tenth Anniversary this year and we send our genuine thanks to all contributors, volunteers and visitors for our ongoing success. * * NEW CEMETERIES ADDED/UPDATED ON THE CANADIAN GRAVEMARKER GALLERY. *************************************************************** * 1. Ontario, Sudbury District, Greater Sudbury, Coniston Cemetery. * 2. Ontario, Sudbury District, Greater Sudbury, Wahnapitae R.C. Cemetery. * 3. Ontario, Sudbury District, Greater Sudbury, Blezard Valley Cemetery. * 4. Ontario, Timiskaming District, Kirkland Lake Cemetery, Block "A". * 5. Ontario, Timiskaming District, Kirkland Lake Cemetery, Block "H". * 6. Ontario, Cochrane District, Timmins Memorial Cemetery, Block "L". * 7. Ontario, Algoma District, Johnson Twp, Desbarats Cemetery. * 8. Ontario, Thunder Bay District, Schreiber, Schreiber Cemetery. * 9. Ontario, Manitoulin District, Cockburn Island Cemetery. * 10. Ontario, Simcoe County, Oro-Medonte Twp, Little Brick United Church Cemetery. * 11. Ontario, Muskoka District, Sinclair Township, Mizpah Pioneer Cemetery. * 12. Ontario, Muskoka District, Sinclair Township, St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery. * 13. Ontario, Muskoka District, Sinclair Township, Maplewood Cemetery. * 14. Ontario, Muskoka District, Macauley Township, Fraserburg United Church Cemetery. * 15 Ontario, Hastings County, Belleville Twp, Belleville, Sons of Jacob Cemetery. * 16. Ontario, Hastings County, Carlow Twp, Boulter, Boulter Gospel Chapel Cemetery. * 17. Ontario, Hastings County, Carlow Twp, New Carlow Cemetery. * 18 Ontario, Hastings County, Huntingdon Twp, West Huntingdon, Luke's Cemetery. * 19. Ontario, Hastings County, Madoc Twp, Madoc, Sacred Heart of Mary New Cemetery. * 20. Ontario, Hastings County, McClure Twp, Maynooth, Grace United Cemetery. * 21. Ontario, Hastings County, Tyendinaga Twp, Melrose, Melrose Cemetery. * 22. Ontario, Hastings County, Tyendinaga Twp, Blessington, Garrison Pioneer Cemetery. * 23. Ontario, Hastings County, Carlow Twp, New Carlow Cemetery. * 24. Nova Scotia, Cumberland County, Amherst, St. Charles Cemetery. * 25. Nova Scotia, Cumberland County, Maccan, United Baptist Cemetery. * 26. Nova Scotia, Cumberland County, Maccan, Public Cemetery. * CEMETERIES IN PROGRESS ON THE CANADIAN GRAVEMARKER GALLERY. ********************************************************** * 1. Alberta, Red Deer County, Innisfail Cemetery. * 2. Manitoba, Inwood, Haslund Cemetery * 3. Ontario, Cochrane Dist, Black River-Matheson Twp, Shillington Cemetery. * 4. Ontario, Thunder Bay District. Thunder Bay (formerly Fort William). Mountainview Cemetery * 5. Ontario, Renfrew County, Renfrew, Thomsonville Cemetery. (Update). * 6. Ontario, Renfrew County, Haley Station, Haley Cemetery. (Update). * 7. Ontario, Renfrew County, Goshen Cemetery. (Update). * 8. Ontario, Sudbury Dist, Killarney, Two small cemeteries. * 9. Ontario, Kenora District, Dryden Cemetery. * 10. Ontario, Sudbury District, Greater Sudbury, LaSalle Cemetery, Section 1a and 1b * 11. Ontario, Hastings County, Carlow Twp, Carlow United Cemetery. * 12. Ontario, Hastings County, Dungannon Twp, Umphraville Cemetery. * 13 Ontario, Hastings County, McClure Twp, Oram Family Cemetery. * 14. Ontario, Hastings County, McClure Twp, Maynooth, St. Ignatius Cemetery * 15. Ontario, Hastings County, McClure Twp, Maynooth, St. Paul's United Cemetery. * 16. Ontario, Hastings County, Monteagle Twp, Emmanuel United Cemetery. * 17. Ontario, Hastings County, Monteagle Twp, Lutheran Cemetery. * 18. Ontario, Hastings County, Monteagle Twp, Zion United Church Cemetery. * 19. Ontario, Hastings County, Monteagle Twp, Musclow Cemetery. * 20. Ontario, Muskoka District, McLean Twp, Baysville Cemetery. * 21. Ontario, Muskoka District, McLean Twp, St. Ambrose's Anglican Cemetery. OVERVIEW PROGRESS REPORT. ************************ * 1. Ontario, Renfrew County is now completely online. * 2. Ontario, Nipissing District is completely online. * 3. Ontario, Parry Sound District is completely online. * 4. Ontario, Timiskaming District. The Kirkland Lake and Elk Lake cemeteries may be fully online in 2009. * 5. Ontario, Kenora District. Kenora, Keewatin and Sioux Falls-Nestor Twp cemeteries are online. * 6. Ontario, Rainy River District. Volunteers are continuing work on Rainy River cemeteries. * 7. Ontario, Muskoka District. Murray and volunteers are working on Muskoka District cemeteries. * 8. Ontario, Manitoulin District. Many cemeteries are online. * 9. Ontario, Cochrane District. Work continues on Timmins Memorial Cemetery and other cemeteries. * 10. British Columbia, Thompson-Okanagan Region. Additional cemeteries are being processed. * 11. Nova Scotia, Cumberland County. Additional cemeteries are being processed. * 12. Alberta, Grande Prairie Region. Work has started on photographing cemeteries. * WEBSITE NEWS. ************ * 1. The National website now exists: http://gravemarkers.ca ..! On this "free-access" new site we can accommodate photographs of complete cemeteries from anywhere in Canada. The photographer is given credit on the website for all their hard work. * 2. This National Site is proud to announce that there are more than 450 cemeteries completely photographed and onboard, amounting to over 350,000 searchable photographs. There have been over 550,000 visitors to the site. Each day there are over 200 folks browsing the site and there are over 10,000 name searches each month. * 3. If you have family or friends across Canada who may be interested in photographing their local cemeteries, please pass on this information to them. Their photographed cemeteries will have wide exposure on this National Cemetery website. * 4. If you and/or your organization is interested in your local cemeteries going online, please contact Murray at: mailto:pletsch@cogeco.ca or mailto:murray@gravemarkers.ca * 5. A comprehensive "Tips and Hints" aide memoire will be sent to all interested folks....to help them get started to photograph entire cemeteries. * 6. For those interested, "The Canadian Gravemarker Gallery" is now a "Group" on Facebook. * * SUBSCRIBING TO THE WEBSITE UPDATES NEWSLETTER: ******************************************** Don't miss future updates. Subscribe to the automatic Gravemarker Galleries Newsletter. Please go to the Website at: http://www.gravemarkers.ca and click on the "Join Updates Newsletter" button located just above the weather row. * ****************************************************** * NOTES: ***** 1. Cemeteries have spousal duplicated photographs. This means a photo which has the spouse's maiden name showing, is duplicated and when one searches for a surname, the spouse's surname will be a separate "search result". * 2. If your "search engine" keyword is the same as a city, town, village, township then here is a tip. If your "search engine" keyword you are using is say: pembrok* then your search will pick up all the pembroke surnames....*BUT* ...it will also pick up all the website pages where pembroke is used as a meta name. SOLUTION: Change your keyword to pembrok1 and the search engine will only pick up the gravemarkers with pembroke surname. * 3. Should you wish to help out with this ongoing huge project, please contact Murray at mailto:pletsch@cogeco.ca * 4. For those interested, "The Canadian Gravemarker Gallery" is now a "Group" on Facebook. * Bye for now.....Murray * Cdn Gravemarker Gallery - http://www.gravemarkers.ca * Facebook Group: [The Canadian Gravemarker Gallery]