Hi Listers, I imagine many of you know that I am the assistant to Kevin Fraley on the Washington Cemetery project. This has been a huge undertaking for Kevin. While I help, there is so much he has to do himself without me doing anything except bothering him... which I dearly love to do several times a day, actually you might call it, irritate him. This keeps him on his toes and wishing he had never heard of me, but he might get bored if I stop. Kevin told me once he did not think it was possible to ever get all the cemeteries on line, and we are showing him it really is a possibility. Not this year, but it can happen. We will never have simply everyone up there, but we can have all the cemeteries we can find......up to a certain date....We are actually seeing some counties almost finished.... In 5 counties we have all cemeteries adopted and being worked on, at least we think we do. I do not see us having any one county up on line this year totally, but it will happen soon. This is only possible because we have so many volunteers willing to give of their time to survey the cemeteries, then transcribe their findings and sharing it with us. At the moment I have some things to emphasize.....Check out what Kevin is doing on the page. He has taken on the task of updating all 39 counties, but first he finds out their name and all the aka's - plus he finds out the legal description, Twp, Range and Section for them. To accomplish this he has used about 4 different reference guides plus he takes trips to that county to make sure he is correct......I keep telling him to invite me, but he doesn't. I would like to see all those cemeteries too. He fears Maggie might con him into reading one again.....<g> Seriously, check out this huge undertaking.......He now has 13 finished and is working on Thurston next. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wa/wacem.htm Then you will notice we need workers in Okanogan county bad. I can tell you that Ferry, Stevens, Spokane, Pend Oreille and Walla Walla counties are all adopted unless someone can't fulfill their job, which happened recently with the sudden death of one of our volunteers. You must always check with Kevin first to make sure no one has adopted before you start. This will always be, as we cannot have two people adopting the same one. Yakima, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln & Whitman counties also need more workers.....the other counties are on line with the listings so you can check what they need. I am speaking of Eastern Washington. All of the counties need workers on the west side.....I am told they only get the sun for a month a year, so they will need our help eventually <G>....who can write on paper in the rain....??? Anyone in Washington, wanting to help... contact either me or Kevin. We only have about 2 months left, if that long to go to the cemeteries and survey them. All winter to type them up. Now for you Northern Idaho readers.....I have read a few over there, but do not work on that page. You can check the following URL to see what they need.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/idaho.html Then contact Stacey L. Orchard if you wish to adopt. Maggie Rail EWANIDA-listowner