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From: Guy Etchells <>
Subject: [LEI] Burial ground challenge
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:52:40 +0100

A quick plug for my latest website of the burial ground of St John the
Evangelist Church, Staincross, and a challenge

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/stcr/stjsc1.htm

The site contains photos of the tombstones, transcripts of the
inscriptions and the complete interlinked burial register for the church

it is hosted free of charge on Rootsweb servers (thanks Rootsweb)

The site was started at the end of January and I visited about one
morning a week (weather allowing) I transcribed the inscriptions in the
evening from the photos and checked the printouts of the transcripts on
my next visit.

The burial register database was given to me by the vicar, The Revd Jim
Butterworth, (grateful thanks for this) which I split alphabetically and

added in links to the relevant photos.

In all the site has taken about 14-20 days of work to produce. It is not
perfect by any means [some days I was so cold the camera shook :-))] but
does show what can be achieved with little effort.

Now the challenge,

I challenge each and every Family History Society in the country to
produce a similar type of free site for an burial ground in your area of

interest within the next six months.
I often hear how important FHS are to the family historian but see
various degrees of proof of this, can you meet the challenge and make me

eat my words? :-))

Before anyone mentions that the FHS have to make money on all of their
projects to allow them to survive let me add this thought. Many overseas
genealogists and family historians would join a FHS in this country if
they could see some benefit in doing so, putting some data such as this
on the web would give overseas family historians some benefit for
joining and could easily be afforded.
Don't forget UK based family historians are getting extra benefits by
virtue of the monthly meetings and speakers these have to be paid for
out of funds surely the occasional free web project would be a gesture
to show distant and overseas members they are appreciated.

Cheers
Guy

--
Wakefield England

http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells Transcripts, Parish
Records, Calendar, Scaleable Map of Uk. Link to LDS website,
Abbreviations, Returns of Owners of Lands etc. etc.
http://www.guye.freeserve.co.uk Whitefield Transcripts, Etch/ells
Transcripts
http://gye.future.easyspace.com Worldwide Cemetery Links, Monumental
Inscriptions, War Graves, etc.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/CHURCH/church.htm
Churches & MIs. in the Wakefield Area
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/Ossett/obmi1.htm
Transcripts of 1st Baptist Burial ground Ossett
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/tmi.htm Photos of
St. James Churchyard, Wakefield
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/stcr/stjsc1.htm
Memorials in the burial ground of St John the Evangelist Church,
Staincross.

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