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From: "Historical Society of Cecil County" <>
Subject: [MDCECIL] Over 29,000 Cecil County Tombstone Inscriptions Online
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:43:14 -0400


NEWS FROM THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CECIL COUNTY

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RESEARCHER'S ALERT: OVER 29,000 CECIL COUNTY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS ONLINE

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One of our most experienced family history researchers and a past president
of the Genealogical Society of Cecil County, Gary Burns, has worked several
years transcribing tombstones at practically every known cemetery in Cecil
County. From Bald Friar to Warwick, and every other place in between, he and
helpers, have visited quite old country graveyards, as well as those in
towns, to record data found on the memorials. Once they collected the
information, they entered it into an Excel Spreadsheet.

Gary has given us a copy of this insightful work and we have created a web
page for the product, since it will be extremely helpful for researchers. As
it stands now, it contains over 29,000 entries for Cecil County tombstones.
It is still a work in progress and we will add additional data as Gary makes
it available.

The Society appreciates the opportunity to make this valuable product
available to online visitors to the Society's web site. We also thank Gary
and all those who contributed to this work. We will update this as he gets
more work done and we hope to add more digitial collections in the future.

<http://www.cchistory.org/cemetery>; Click here to visit the appropriate
section of the web site.

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The Historical Society of Cecil County

135 E. Main Street

Elkton, MD 21921

www.cchistory.org







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