At the last meeting of our genealogical society, one of the members mentioned that he had just gone out to one of the oldest Catholic cemeteries in the county, and discovered that someone has just gone through it........with a wire brush. Now the oldest stones are no longer legible!!!!!!!! I just hope that we take the time to educate new genealogists on the proper way to do rubbings, and to tell them to leave those wire brushes home. Adds an incentive to those photographs!!!! Also, guess I need to create a page on my site for the safe way to do rubbings, or find one to link to. tracy reinhardt

I have, Tracy, But you know what? some are just so stubborn, and they think you don't know, and so they keep on what they are doing! :( Sometimes it can amount to almost a knock down drag out fight (feature that online!<g>) and you still don't make your point. (sigh) Mari At 02:50 PM 2/7/2006,tracy reinhardt wrote: >At the last meeting of our genealogical society, one of the members >mentioned that he had just gone out to one of the oldest Catholic >cemeteries in the county, and discovered that someone has just gone >through it........with a wire brush. >Now the oldest stones are no longer legible!!!!!!!! > >I just hope that we take the time to educate new genealogists on the >proper way to do rubbings, and to tell them to leave those wire brushes home. > >Adds an incentive to those photographs!!!! > >Also, guess I need to create a page on my site for the safe way to >do rubbings, or find one to link to. > >tracy reinhardt

Tracy let me know the url, and I will provide it on the Photos Pages .. it is an excellent idea! Tina ----- Original Message ----- From: "tracy reinhardt" <fondygenie@charter.net> To: <WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:50 PM Subject: [WIGEN-L] another cemetery topic > At the last meeting of our genealogical society, one of the members > mentioned that he had just gone out to one of the oldest Catholic > cemeteries in the county, and discovered that someone has just gone > through it........with a wire brush. > Now the oldest stones are no longer legible!!!!!!!! > > I just hope that we take the time to educate new genealogists on the > proper way to do rubbings, and to tell them to leave those wire brushes > home. > > Adds an incentive to those photographs!!!! > > Also, guess I need to create a page on my site for the safe way to do > rubbings, or find one to link to. > > tracy reinhardt > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Celebrate Wisconsin! > Visit the Trempealeau County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://www.rootsweb.com/~witrempe/ > >

The site below has some great FAQs on cemetery work. http://www.gravestonestudies.org/ Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> To: <WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] another cemetery topic > Tracy let me know the url, and I will provide it on the Photos Pages .. it > is an excellent idea! > > Tina > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "tracy reinhardt" <fondygenie@charter.net> > To: <WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:50 PM > Subject: [WIGEN-L] another cemetery topic > > >> At the last meeting of our genealogical society, one of the members >> mentioned that he had just gone out to one of the oldest Catholic >> cemeteries in the county, and discovered that someone has just gone >> through it........with a wire brush. >> Now the oldest stones are no longer legible!!!!!!!! >> >> I just hope that we take the time to educate new genealogists on the >> proper way to do rubbings, and to tell them to leave those wire brushes >> home. >> >> Adds an incentive to those photographs!!!! >> >> Also, guess I need to create a page on my site for the safe way to do >> rubbings, or find one to link to. >> >> tracy reinhardt >> >> >> ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== >> Celebrate Wisconsin! >> Visit the Trempealeau County WIGenWeb Project Pages >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~witrempe/ >> >> > > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Celebrate Wisconsin! > Visit the Vilas County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wivilas/

One of my researchers also restores cemeteries - Ralph let me put his manual and other valuable info on my site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimonroe/MCLHMaRR/cemetery/restore-cem.html Included in the References are some great links - you can link any or all - have a great time. R/S MAK --- tracy reinhardt <fondygenie@charter.net> wrote: > At the last meeting of our genealogical society, one > of the members mentioned that he had just gone out > to one of the oldest Catholic cemeteries in the > county, and discovered that someone has just gone > through it........with a wire brush. > Now the oldest stones are no longer legible!!!!!!!! > > I just hope that we take the time to educate new > genealogists on the proper way to do rubbings, and > to tell them to leave those wire brushes home. > > Adds an incentive to those photographs!!!! > > Also, guess I need to create a page on my site for > the safe way to do rubbings, or find one to link to. > > tracy reinhardt MAKtranscriber http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiportag http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimonroe __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com