Genealogy Chat

Ok, I apologise if this may have been mentioned before, but I was browsing a site (sorry, I forget which one) recently, and saw a link to a site in USA where people have been to cemeteries local to them and photographed the head stones of each individual grave. They have then uploaded them to a website where you can go on and search for the area, then the cemetery, then the name, and see a picture of the headstone - all for free!! What a brilliant idea!! Saves people having to trek many miles in order to look for the headstone and what it says. Wouldn't it be great if we had that kind of thing in this country? I wouldn't mind doing my bit and photographing some head stones myself. The only problem would be where there is no head stone or where the stones have been weathered with age and are no longer readable. We recently went to a cemetery where we know a number of our ancestors are burried, and managed to find quite a few stones with the right surname. We photographed all of them and it is much easier to sit at home and match them up with names in the family tree, than try to remember the tree details when you are wandering round the cemetery with a notebook & pen, trying to scribble everything down.

I think there is a project underway in the UK Gerry. I was reading a thread the other day on here from someone who is doing just that.

Yes it is a super idea. One of the contacts on this site gave me the website address for the church where my rellies were baptised, married and buried. There is a plan of the church yard, with each grave numbered, there is a burial list, also numbered so you can cross reference and find the plot, and not only has it photos of the headstones, church etc. the headstone inscriptions have been copied so you can again, cross ref. and look at a particular grave. The church is in Lancashire and i live in Essex, and there is no way I could travel up there to search myself. She deserves a medal. Kathlyn