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From: (Richard S. Holmes)
Subject: Cemetery transcripts (was Re: [NYMADISO] - QUESTION)
Date: 06 Nov 2003 09:19:15 -0500
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In-Reply-To: "McSwain"'s message of "Wed, 5 Nov 2003 23:25:11 -0800"

"McSwain" <> writes:

> I put everything I found engraved on each stone and I am told
> to abbreviate

Which is, if you will pardon the pun, monumentally stupid of them.
When you abbreviate you lose information. This particular cemetery is
not of interest to me, but if I had my choice between a transcription
of a cemetery of interest in some standardized format that
abbreviates, edits, and otherwise alters the actual headstone texts
and one in a non-standardized format that preserves the texts verbatim
I would unhesitatingly prefer the latter.

--
- Rich Holmes
Syracuse, NY

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