Wesley Pippenger recently completed a two-volume set titled "Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C., Monument Inscriptions and Burial Data" which I believe is available exclusively thru Oak Hill Cemetery. Mr. Pippenger received no funds for doing this. I think all the money received for the books will go to the Oak Hill Cemetery Preservation Foundation and part of it is tax decuctable. Carolyn <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

On Wesley's Pippengers web site http://users.erols.com/pipp/ it says: Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C.: Monument Inscriptions and Burial Data, Parts One and Two. $150 post paid. Order from Oak Hill Cemetery, 3001 R St., N.W., Washington, DC 20007. That is incredibly expensive especially if you don't know if your folks are buried there are not and/or if you're only interested in a couple of names. Maybe some of the genealogy libraries, LDS, etc. will have this book soon and that would be a better option than buying it for most of us. Kathi Jones-Hudson, National Coordinator Tombstone Transcription Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail

I've never understood the selfishness of the people who own this cemetery. I think an historical society should have taken this cemetery over not a private party who seems to have restrictions on everything from photo taking to transcriptions. I've voiced this before and some disagree. Don't they realize that many families paid for these plots some years ago? Don't these descendants have some right to these graves as well. This cemetery has a lot of notable people from the pages of history buried there and visitors/researchers should be allowed to visit without all these ridiculous restrictions. I would only be interested in these two volumes for historical reasons as I don't believe any of my ancestors were ever buried there. I think $150 is a bit steep. I believe that is just the greed of the folks at Oak Hill and not Pippenger's price. Oak Hill management probably asked Pippenger to do it because he has a reputation of putting out quality material. However, I think Oak Hill just wanted control of the data because they knew how valuable it would be to those interested. At least cemeteries such as Congressional offer as much data as they can on their website without a big money motive like Oak Hill management. If they open their doors a little they could acquire more funding from the public. If they hold everything back with restrictions, then it is going to continue to be the run-down cemetery it always was. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: washingtondc-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:washingtondc-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Kathi Jones-Hudson Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:53 PM To: washingtondc@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WashDC] Oak Hill Cemetery Lists On Wesley's Pippengers web site http://users.erols.com/pipp/ it says: Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C.: Monument Inscriptions and Burial Data, Parts One and Two. $150 post paid. Order from Oak Hill Cemetery, 3001 R St., N.W., Washington, DC 20007. That is incredibly expensive especially if you don't know if your folks are buried there are not and/or if you're only interested in a couple of names. Maybe some of the genealogy libraries, LDS, etc. will have this book soon and that would be a better option than buying it for most of us. Kathi Jones-Hudson, National Coordinator Tombstone Transcription Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WASHINGTONDC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message