[or-roots] Oregon Gravestones Photo Project

[Suz_ES]

I have been following this thread and have a question for David:  will this
information be added to the GenWeb Tombstone project?  It seems to me this
would be a good place to put this information to make sure there is no
duplication.  Some cemeteries already have project managers looking for
volunteers.  I think a good first step would be to work in conjunction with
this project.

I will be contacting the project manager for Yamhill County and work with
them to add in the IOOF cemetery in Dayton and the Brookside cemetery in
Dayton.  This is our family summer project.  If anyone else has any
additional information about these 2 cemeteries, I would appreciate any and
all....

suzanne in Newberg
suz_es at verizon.net
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  I think this is a GREAT project.  The first time I found a link to Oregon
cemetery projects online I was really excited...until I clicked the links
and found that there were very few cemetery inventories (not to mention
photos) actually online.  If Rootsweb actually has thousands of Oregon
graves, I haven't found them.

  But what a good idea to create a searchable database of photos.  Now that
digital cameras are so inexpensive, it costs no more to snap a hundred
photos than it does to snap one. Much faster than the old way of copying
gravestone data on the back of an envelope found in the glove compartment!
Although the cropping and editing of the photos takes a few minutes, I do
believe that a bit of practice will produce good photos that don't need
editing.

  I think the other positive aspect of an organized effort like this is that
it may draw attention to the neglect of some of the smaller/family
cemeteries.  The outcome could be some brush cutting and grave marking.  It
would be a good family project; a way to interest children and teens in
local history.  I have always enjoyed walking through old cemeteries and
reading the inscriptions, so stopping to snap a picture takes only a few
seconds more.  In high school a friend and I noticed that there were old
graves in the Canyonville cemetery that were no longer being tended.  So, we
"adopted" several of them.  We weeded them and used a toothbrush to remove
moss from the lettering.  It began as a somewhat of a lark, but we soon
developed an interest in the lives of the people whose graves we were
tending.

  Carla


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