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From: Kathi Jones-Hudson <>
Subject: Maryland Tombstone Transcription Project
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:14:53 -0700 (PDT)

The Maryland Tombstone Transcription Project page(s)
have been totally updated and revamped. Please go
check them out.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/maryland.html

WANTED!! Maryland Tombstone Photographs and
Transcriptions

The Maryland USAGenWeb Archives has embarked on a
project to collect photographs of tombstones in
Maryland Cemeteries. The goal is to have an on-line
text transcription of Maryland cemetery records and
headstones via the Maryland Tombstone Project plus
photographs of the headstones via the Maryland
Tombstone Photo Project.

We are not asking that you adopt a Maryland cemetery,
buy a digital camera and photograph every tombstone,
although that would be terrific <smile>. We are simply
asking that you share the photos you already have of
headstones that you have taken in Maryland cemeteries
during the course of your research.

We need "sharp, tightly cropped" photos of headstones
taken close enough to read the engraved text instead
of general area or family plot cemetery photographs.
The project goal is to document the information on the
grave markers so researchers who can't visit the
cemetery themselves have a "first generation" source
for their kind's grave marker in addition to the
volunteer text transcriptions.

Subscribers with headstone photos to donate please
contact me directly for submission details.

Kathi Jones-Hudson
Maryland Tombstone Transcription Project Manager





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