[or-roots] Oregon Gravestones Photo Project

[DanM]

I am thinking this whole thing could be spiced up in the fervor that other
genealogy people who go to take their own pictures could fill up the camera
with other pictures, but wow, what a sorting that would be.
    It might be simpler to have a dozen or so people just do one place at a
time.   I would like to find out if I could get a group going out here.

Dan M
www.wvi.com/~wb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janice Winzinger" <jbwinzinger at hctc.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Oregon Gravestones Photo Project


> June 26, 2005
>
> Incomplete or erroneous cemetery records must be a national problem.  In
> Illinois this spring I requested records at three cemeteries--two of them
> had either failed to record a burial at all or had listed the wrong people
> as being buried in my ancestors' block.  Oh yes:  one showed the wrong
> location for a grave.
>
> You do have a daunting task in Oregon, I see, but you who are experienced
in
> grave site searches understand what an enormous favor you'll be doing for
> countless families.  Doesn't a journey toward a hundred ancestors' graves
> begin with a single photo?
>
> Jan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "DanM" <wb at valiant.wvi.com>
> To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Oregon Gravestones Photo Project
>
>
> > It also makes me wonder why cemeteries ( do not ) keep good records.
> > Also why is it not a state law that ( all ) graves be marked with at
least
> > a
> > small metal name plate that could be hand stamped with a little pliers
> > like
> > tool for lettering> I have seen these before,it would save all the
> > unmarked,
> > non recorded graves like the one in Eugene/Springfield, very lousy
records
> > if any for that one.
> >
> > Dan M
> > www.wvi.com/~wb
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "W David Samuelsen" <dsam at sampubco.com>
> > To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [or-roots] Oregon Gravestones Photo Project
> >
> >
> >> This illustrate why we need to photo every gravemarker and be available
> >> through projects such as the Oregon GPP.
> >>
> >> David Samuelsen
> >>
> >> J & N Hemstreet wrote:
> >> > Dan, it is my understanding that the three grave sites I am hunting
for
> >> > are marked with little crosses.  There may be no names but if there
are
> >> > the last name would be PHELPS.  The first names would be infant boys.
> >> > I
> >> > do not know the cemetery other than it was described to me as a
"funny
> >> > little cemetery". Does this gravesite description sound familiar?
> >> >
> >> > Nancy Hemstreet
> >>
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