Try googling "records of children who were born and died between census counts might be found only in a cemetery." that gets the paper, the other search string gets a card shop <G> Eliz On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Leland Hubbell <lhhubbell@embarqmail.com> wrote: > There was a very interesting article about a group of volunteers > transcribing the state’s cemeteries as part of the USGenWeb > Project in the Monday, July 9, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. > http://www.dispatch.com/ > The URL is way too long to include here, but you should be able > to find the article by googling "tombstone + dispatch" > > Volunteers have photographed their way through cemeteries in > all 88 Ohio counties, according to the article, By Lori Kurtzman. > To quote from the article, "Tombstones, he said, give information > one can’t always find at courthouses: Birth and marriage > certificates don’t always exist, and records of children who were > born and died between census counts might be found only in a > cemetery. > > Grave sites also can tell a different story from a piece of > paper. Plots with rows of tiny headstones speak to plagues that > devastated young families. Granite carvings show that a dead man > was a war veteran, or that he loved music, or that his family > wasn’t ready to say goodbye." > > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message