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From: Susan Hawkins <>
Subject: Re: [TX-Cem] Any Cemetery activity?
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 23:58:43 -0500
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Texas is really picking up the speed on transcribing cemetery records.
The amounts of lists and photos I'm uploading is gaining all the time.
I've closed in on over 240 cemeteries I've walked and recorded and put
on the web myself so things are going well except for my bad knee so if
it will hold out a little longer I'm done with Fannin county and some of
the neighboring counties. Lots of pictures to take though.
I quit on the cleanup as I just can't do it anymore but do work with
the prisoners who are let out to work on them. I follow them around and
collect everything they uncover and document the cleanup.Lately they
haven't been allowed to work like that for a while as there are some
other projects for them to do.
There are so many ways people can get involved!
Susan


Bill or Joyce Morris wrote:
>
> It's about time we shared some success stories regarding what we've done
> recently to save or improve some of the many endangered or neglected
> cemeteries in Texas. This might include recent activity in inventorying
> (sp), cleanup, historical markers, or anything else that might save an old
> cemetery so future genealogists and historians can avoid the "brick walls"
> that we've all become frustrated with.
> I'll just bet that a few good shared 'success-stories' would induce
> somebody to get active in saving one of these irreplaceable resources that
> we all talk about, but far too few of us actually DO anything about.Talk is
> cheap.
> Future genealogists and historians will depend on what WE do today. What
> kind of rating will they give us?
> Bill
>
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