Congratulations to IAGenWeb Project! What an awesome resource and accomplishment! Tina On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Karen De Groote via <state-coord@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I wanted to let everyone know that the Iowa Gravestone Project, the > brainchild of IAGenWeb CC Rich Lowe and his son Jeff, just hit 1,000,000th > gravestone record at around 4:00 pm CST today. Iowa has a current > population of about 3 million people and it is rather sparsely populated in > the rural areas so the number is most significant. > > The IAGenWeb project has been a huge supporter of the "GPP" from it's > infancy and it is in fact listed as one of our special projects. Jeff Lowe > made the program open-access almost from the beginning and 30 states now > use the software. With the purchase of Find A Grave by Ancestry, I am not > personally sure if that will be freely available in the long term and > states that do not utilize the GPP program might want to check in to the > possibility of also working with it at some point, to preserve the > gravestones of our ancestors. > Here is a link that lists the states that use the GPP and how you can find > out more about the program. http://iowagravestones.org/gpp-info.php > > In Iowa, we have seen the value of preserving headstones with the vandalism > that seems to be ever increasing. It is amazing what damage can occur > naturally in a 10 year time period as well, on these older stones. I am > sure I am preaching to the choir in this regard but I wanted to point out > an option for like minded XXGenWebs if they would like set up their own > Gravestone Photo Project. > > Thanks for listening to a little happy news and have a great night! > Karen De Groote > Assistant State Coordinator > IAGenWeb > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to STATE-COORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message