Roger - I think that is the most genius idea I've seen of late. A wonderful researcher once put up one line of my family in The Old Blandford Cemetery: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vacpeter/cemetery/cogbill/cogbill.htm Norfolk County's genealogy page also has listings of cemetery sites. In a message dated 5/22/02 12:01:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > > Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:12:20 -0400 > From: "Roger L. Goodman" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Cemetery Photos > > Greetings, all! > > With this weekend being Memorial Day, and several of you will be > traveling to cemeteries, I would like to suggest that you take a digital > camera with you, and take some photos of the tombstones in the cemeteries > that you visit. Small cemeteries can easily be covered by one person, but > larger cemeteries would need several people to take photos. > Perhaps we need some coordination here, but mostly I think people > could just go out and take some photos. If coordination is needed, I > would be willing to try to keep tabs on who's doing what, at least for > Albemarle County; I don't know if I am ready to try to keep tabs on what > everyone is doing in the whole state! :) > This is just an idea I'm floating/proposing, since cemeteries usually > look their best at Memorial Day, and it usually isn't too hot yet to be > out. > There is at least one website posting photos of Virginia cemeteries > (don't have the website info with me at the moment, but I can track it > down), so there is somewhere to put all these photos once we gather them. > I personally am looking at the possibility of going down to North > Garden or Scottsville to take photos, but will relenquish those sites if > someone else desires to do them. > My camera gets about 400 VGA-size photos on each 32MB > compact-flash(tm) memory card (I have two), so I should be able to get > through one cemetery at least. Batteries will be the thing to remember to > take. :) > If enough interest is generated, I will post a list of what > cemeteries are scheduled to be covered, on Saturday or Sunday, so everyone > will know what is going on by Monday. If there is no interest, well, then > I'll let this die, and continue covering cemeteries as I get time. > Sorry to be so long-winded, but I'm just throwing some thoughts onto > the screen. Roger [log in to unmask] > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html