Here is the link to the Ohio Gravestone Project: http://ohiogravestones.org/ Story from the Columbus Dispatch: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/07/09/volunteers-photograph-ohio-tombstones-for-easy-online-research.html Sandy ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:04:49 -0400 From: Leland Hubbell Subject: [ROOTS-L] Volunteers photograph Ohio tombstones for easy online research To: "ROOTS@rootsweb.com" Message-ID: <4FFCB511.2050902@embarqmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed 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.

Thanks for the website, Sandy. Barb in Minnesota On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Sandra Jacobson <sandra.j@comcast.net> wrote: > Here is the link to the Ohio Gravestone Project: > http://ohiogravestones.org/ > > Story from the Columbus Dispatch: > http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/07/09/volunteers-photograph-ohio-tombstones-for-easy-online-research.html > > Sandy > ------------------------------ > >