Michael I love the map would love one like that for Tazewell county plus few other counties in VA. What do I need to do get one? I do have a question about cemeteries I can't remember where I found this but maybe someone will know. I was in Tazewell VA in August to do some research on my Lockhart family. I know that the family had attended Liberty Hill Church from 1884 to 1890 that was in D. H. Carr journal. I saw a picture of the church and there was a cemetery by the church up on a Hill. I had someone take us out to the church on US 91 (which only three stones are left next to it a trailer) and up on the hill is a cemetery with a stone wall around it and a big tree couldn't get up to the cemetery to see what was there it was on someone property. Would you have any information on this cemetery? Sharon Vaughn<br> 2939 Rockcreek Ct <br> Richland WA 99354<br> 509-375-4732 <br> ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Dye<mailto:madye@roadrunner.com> To: varussel@rootsweb.com<mailto:varussel@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:41 PM Subject: [VARUSSEL] Topographic Cemetery Maps Everyone, I was wondering if there might be an interest in this. I've been working on pinpointing cemeteries on the USGS Quad topographic maps. Initially I started doing this so I could see which cemeteries I'd been at and which ones I still needed to go to, but then I thought that others might have an interest in these maps for their own research. I've loaded up the Big A Mountain quad for everyone to look at and see what you think. It's in pdf form. The link to download the map is: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~varussel/cemeteries/Big_A_Mountain.pdf<http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~varussel/cemeteries/Big_A_Mountain.pdf> To be able to use all the features, you may also need the TerraGo Toolbar. This is a neat toolbar used by Adobe Acrobat and the Acrobat Reader. It allows you to view the longitude and latitude coordinates on the map a well as allowing you to measure distances and areas and has a few other features. If you want to download that here's the link to it: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~varussel/cemeteries/TerraGo_Toolbar.exe<http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~varussel/cemeteries/TerraGo_Toolbar.exe> Now, as a key to the map. I've placed several different color notes at cemetery locations. The yellow notes indicate cemeteries that I've either personally been to or have the info about whose buried there. The red notes indicate cemeteries that I don't yet have info on and still need to visit. The blue notes are cemeteries that I think I have the info on but I need to revisit to confirm the name of the cemetery. Actually, two of the red note cemeteries, the Honaker-Wilson & Ira Ray cemeteries in the bottom part of the map, I've been to, but must have misplaced the data and am still trying to locate it. You can see the name of each cemetery by just moving your mouse pointer over the note for each one. Another neat little feature that I can do is to include the people buried in the cemeteries within the notes. Check out the Moses Harris and Jackson Cemeteries in the bottom right corner of the map (just move you over the notes and then double click the note to see all the data.) I've been thinking about re-doing the cemetery books the Taylors did years ago and finishing the series (they stopped with many cemeteries not yet charted). Now I'm trying to decide whether to put them out in book form by USGS Quad with an included CD showing their locations or to include to persons buried in each cemetery directly on CDs. I like the idea of being able to view them directly on CDs, but think putting it in book form would be more practical. By the way, we went down to Russell Co. this past week and I went trampsing around the mountains in the Lynn Spring and Hollow Poplar Ridge areas placing a few of the cemeteries I already had as well as locating a few new ones I previously was unaware of, including ones where Confederate soldiers John G. Hurt & Jerome Bonaparte Whited are buried. My next toy's going to be a handheld gps device with topographic maps installed :) Mike ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VARUSSEL-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:VARUSSEL-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message