Personally I would like to see the cemeteries added to the Russell Co. site as in the past. I am not very good with maps and find it easy to check the cemeteries that are listed there. Also a lot of people only go to the Russell Co. site to look at information and wouldn't know about these maps. It would be nice if all cemetery information were available for them to see. Some of these people live a great distance from Russell Co. and aren't able to come and look at the cemeteries. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dye" <madye@roadrunner.com> To: <varussel@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 7:41 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 > > 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 > > 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 with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message