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From: Jan & Dave Spitzmueller <>
Subject: Re: Lookups in Beers
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:40:22 -0400


John,
I forgot to tell you that I appreciate the work you are doing with the cemetery
list in the Beers book. Sure will help those of us who can't get to these
cemeteries!
Thanks,
Jan


wrote:

> Hello Warren County Listers:
> The recent discussions about doing lookups in Beers has prompted me to
> chime in. Beers is such a good resource for initial searching in the early
> history of Warren Co that most of us wish it were on the internet in its
> entirety for everyone to search, but it isn't.
> I have a copy, and to assist me in sifting and sorting on some of our own
> family searches, I recently created a database and entered names and dates
> from the the three Source Graveyards (Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian)
> that were combined to form the Pioneer Cemetery in Lebanon. This permits me
> to lookup or printout lists of any or all of these 286 souls according to
> various sorting criteria. I am preparing several lists which I will be
> posting on this OHWARREN-L; such as the following:
>
> 1-Unsorted-As Shown in Beers on pp. 475-476-477
> 2-Sorted Alphabetically by Last Name
> 3-Sorted Alphabetically within the Source Graveyard
> 4-Sorted Alphabetically within Year of Burial
> 5-Sorted Alphabetically within Year of Approximate Birth
>
> I will post list #1 [Unsorted-As Shown in Beers on pp. 475-476-477]
> immediately following this letter. I would like to get your feedback about
> its readability (are all the columns straight, etc.?) and its utility for
> your search and for the list users. I hope I haven't violated any rules of
> the list. When I post the subsequent lists in a few days, they will have the
> same data it it, but will be easier to search because all names will be
> listed alphabetically. I hope this helps some of you find an ancestor.
>
> John Cowan of Baltimore

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