[or-roots] Oregon Gravestones Photo Project

[W David Samuelsen]

There are more cemeteries in Iowa and more counties, too and they did it.

We can do more when we increase awareness of it. Recruit a friend or 2 and get 
them to do same and number will balloon. Even Girls Scouts and Boy Scouts troop.

One troop tackled 700+ burial cemetery with only 5 boys (they practically 
cleaned out the weeds, updated records, did research to locate more, too photos 
of every gravemarker, arranged for donations of 3 new markers for 3 well-known 
residents and now working to get Veterans Admin gravemarkers for the ones who 
are lacking military markers. All this in less than 1 year.

I received submisson on CD of more than 1200 from another cemetery and I have to 
clean them up to fit the parameters.

These are for 2 cemeteries in Utah.

New York already has more than 200 in less than 24 hours!

only 3 new for Oregon as of tonight - Benton County.

So nothing is impossible. Concentrate on the small and abandoned ones. They're
at greater risk of loss than the big and active ones.

David Samuelsen

DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/25/2005 10:09:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> dsam at sampubco.com writes:
> 
>     Average upload is in
>     neighborhod of 2,000 weekly as they gear up for the summer.
> 
> 2000 per week that would be 24000 per year it would only take  416,666.6 
> years to reach the 10 million gravesite in oregon. I not to sure but I 
> don't think that I will be around then.
> Hey maybe ther are only 1 million graves then it would only take 
> 41,666.6 years.
> Or maybe only 100,000 graves that would be only a mear 41.6 years
> Gee sounds better already lets just jump right onto this little project.
>  
> Walt Davies
> Cooper Hollow Farm
> Monmouth, OR 97361
> 503 623-0460