Congratulations on a remarkable milestone! Larry Flesher SC, MOGenWeb Project On Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:45 AM, Jo via <state-coord@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > >Congratulations, IAGenWeb.  An amazing accomplishment. > >Jo Branch >LAGenWeb >NCGenWeb > > >On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Lesley Shockey via < >state-coord@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Congratulations to Rich and Jeff.  Karen please pass the word. >> >> Les Shockey >> WVGenWeb >> >> On 7/18/2014 8:26 PM, Karen De Groote via 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 >> > >------------------------------- >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 > > >

Hear! Hear! Congratulations! Maureen Mead SC CTGenWeb: ctgenweb.org CC Fairfield Co. CT: ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield mmeadpond@aol.com meadponddesign@comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: Larry Flesher via <state-coord@rootsweb.com> To: bjcb.xx <bjcb.xx@gmail.com>; state-coord <state-coord@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, Jul 20, 2014 9:07 am Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Milestone Reached Congratulations on a remarkable milestone! Larry Flesher SC, MOGenWeb Project On Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:45 AM, Jo via <state-coord@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > >Congratulations, IAGenWeb. An amazing accomplishment. > >Jo Branch >LAGenWeb >NCGenWeb > > >On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Lesley Shockey via < >state-coord@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Congratulations to Rich and Jeff. Karen please pass the word. >> >> Les Shockey >> WVGenWeb >> >> On 7/18/2014 8:26 PM, Karen De Groote via 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 >> > >------------------------------- >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 > > > ------------------------------- 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