I really should have added that it is of enormous help and comfort for "us'n" who are now living in farflung lands and have little hope of ever returning to be part of this wonderful programme, or to find these graves/headstones for ourselves. Thanks again, Coral Anna (Cartwright) Foster Shenandoah Valley Virginia, USA. > Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 21:05:22 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN] Plumstead Cemetery Images available > > Hi Coral > It is a pleasure. It was hard work over almost a weeks worth of photographing almost 5000 graves. Out of the 30 000 people buried there it was noted that 20% of headstones had fallen over or were broken, 20% of graves had headstones at all and 10% were unmarked gravves - so you can figure that there is almost a 50% loss of names in that cemetery. I could not find my great great grandmother's grave who was one of the first people buried their and strange as it may be I remeber seeing it in the last 5 years. I am told that there are no records for the early burials. > > So we need to make sure that these are photographed for posterity. > If anyone would like to be a volunteer and either become a "friend of the crypt" or help tag images, please email me at [email protected] > thanks to all our existing volunteers. > regards >