You don't need to get nasty about my opinion, nor go off like that. I have spent hours and hours working in local cemeteries, recording the markers, transcribing and adding to the transcriptions from interment records (when we were allowed to use them), typing, and then going back to proof read. I have spent countless hours going through microfilms of old newspapers scouting out any mention of somebody's death or burial within an hour and a half radius of us, whether it's the kind of obit we all like to find or a mention of somebody coming to town for somebody's funeral (indicating at least that someone died, which I think is better than nothing.) I understand the work that goes into these things. Just on extracted data alone, we've got over half a million names on our web sites from this area of the country. We've also got among that data, transcribed marriage info from several area counties, because family members don't always marry in the county they were living at the time of marriage. I know what kind of work it is, and I know why we've made the decisions we have. Thing is, I haven't seen any photographs of my family yet on Find a Grave, and I *do* have the book from Union county cemeteries to refer to. I was referring to that information in my post. I am grateful for it...there are a lot of relatives there and I have filled in a lot of blanks. I only wish that the book hadn't been alphabetized within the cemetery (it has an every name index), because it lost family continuity in the family plots, and sometimes I have as many questions about some of the cemeteries as I had before because I have new names, but no connections because I don't know where the new names fit in. And as a reminder, I mentioned where I had found my information in my post...it was not on Find a grave. (Last time I went on Find a grave, I wasn't finding my people there that I've found in the Footprints book, nor have I found my folks on Find a grave from other counties in other states of interest, if that matters.) I've helped people do their genealogy that Find a grave has been a marvelous resource, however, so don't think I'm complaining. As a seasoned genealogist, I understand that no one site is going to have everything needed for everybody. The Ailor Mortuary books were also a serious find for me, as they cover people not buried in Union county, but whose funeral was handled by those folks. If people need other resources for Union county, check them out. (Though again, they haven't got everyone, because they weren't the mortuary for everyone.) Karen Karen Tippets On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:16 PM, ohno2311 <ohno2311@comcast.net> wrote: > Karen Tippets > If this memorial is in Graves-Ousley Cemetery in Sharps Chapel, there is a > good chance I took the photo and uploaded it to the memorial. > > It drives me nuts when people criticize & complain about others work. In > the first place I would think someone should be darn thankful & > appreciative > the memorial is on line in the first place. > > Number one, it was not a cemetery reading it was a photo. I did not have > the > material and or the time to sit down and try to figure out what exactly > was > inscribed on the marker. > > I respect your right to voice an opinion but for the thousands of people > who > spend untold hours in cemeteries in all kinds of weather then take even > more of their time to add memorials to Find A Grave, your comment is not > appreciated. > > don sanford > > > -----Original Message----- > From: tnunion-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tnunion-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Karen Tippets > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:46 PM > To: tnunion@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TNUNION] William KIng > > Drives me nuts when people do cemetery readings and don't transcribe the > entire stone. Somebody paid good money to put it there, and if it isn't > written down, it may not always be there. That's why when our Greater > Omaha > Genealogy Society embarked on the project of reading the city cemeteries, > we > insisted that if it was carved on, write it down, or as much as could be > made out. Time & weather, and sometimes vandals, can do a lot of damage. > We even try to give a rough idea of what the art work is, as well as any > symbols from groups they might have been associated with...leads to more > records, right? > > Karen > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:40 PM, <Margfreemon@aol.com> wrote: > > > Karen, > > I went to find a grave site and I found William King He is buried in > > the Graves-Ousley Cemetery in Sharps Chapel You can read his birth > > and death dates but it looks like there was more witting on down on > > the stone but nothing is readable at that point. 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