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From: "Trev" <>
Subject: [ILHAMILT-L] Re: Cemetery Inscriptions Books, done alphabetically...Arghhh!
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:03:02 -0500
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> Trev,
>
> If you have ever used Ed Shuster's Hamilton County cemetery
> transcriptions, they have the best of both worlds. The listing is
> alphabetically, but each cemetery is listed by section, which allows you
> to make family connections. Otherwise you have to have a good index,
> which takes up more time to produce and space to print.
>
> Cindy Birk Conley
Cindy & Carol,
Let's be fair now :-) So the members of this list, that are not members of the
Franklin Co list do not get too confused. My statement was made to the Franklin
list as such (with further comments below):
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"Yes, I haven't run across any in book form (yet), but have run across some that
have been put online with an alphabetical index (where you just click on the
letter for the surname, or they are all in order as such). Makes it pretty
tough! I have made some great recoveries by finding who is next to kin, and with
that little tidbit I discovered (when I visited the cem.), it lead me into a new
direction..."
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The above statement I made, was in reply too:
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> If anyone out there is contemplating doing a book on cemetery
> inscriptions, please do not list the persons in alphabetical order. A
> young married daughter, buried next to her parents, is not listed next
> to her parents, but "lost" among the Smiths or whatever. A wife who has
> remarried after the death of her 1st husband, but later is buried next
> to her 1st husband, is not found next to him. Doing it this way makes
> for a "pretty" book, nice and neat - but families are separated, making
> the book "pretty" useless.
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Of course I have many Cemetery books, and they all have an alphabetical index in
the back, and when you go to that "name", to the cemetery it belongs in, all the
graves are listed in "Sections & Rows" (so you know who is buried next to who).
All the books I have are like this.
My statement above was not to meant to single out any one person, or any one web
site. I would never want to hurt anyone's feelings, especially since I have
first hand knowledge of doing a transcription project. The statement I made
above was what I have encountered on many many websites that have the same
setup, nothing in "sections & rows" everyone just listed alph..
There are programs out there that will generate an index list (in about 2
seconds). What if you had an index list that when you click on that name, it
takes you to where the person is buried in the "section and row" of that
cemetery. There are cemetery web sites like this:-)
Please don't think I am coming down on anyone, I was just making a statement on
how discouraging this kind of a setup was, in researching on the internet, to
the Franklin Co email list in a reply.... guess I best keep my comments to
myself huh...
BTW... I know I've said this before.... your site is doing great Carol, keep up
the great work...
Best Regards, Trev
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