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From: "Diane Williams" <>
Subject: [TX-CEMETERIES] cemetery transcriptions?
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:58:46 -0400
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I have been trying for years to get to Texas and have enough time to
transcribe this small and very old community cemetery in Wortham, Freestone
County. Recently I discovered that not only had it been transcribed but it
had also been photographed and put in alpha order online and I was able to
find my lost ancestor's grave! Thanks to the wonderful couple who
photographed the Wortham cemetery and added it to www.findagrave.com. I had
been to that site before but not recently, and a friend mentioned they had
some new transcriptions so I checked it out. I went to www.interment.net as
well as the Texas Tombstone Project county page but there was not anything
new for my interest.

Listers, don't forget to check out what resources are already out there, and
to do your part to add to them whenever you can. And write a thank you note
if what you need can be found!

Diane


PS: Still lost-- John and Elizabeth Brandon, died in NE Texas (or Ark or
even MO!) somewhere between 1870 and 1874. Also lost is marker for his son
Charles L Brandon & wife Elizabeth, possibly in Hill County, and found is
his sons graves, Hugh Francis Brandon found in Throckmorton, and John Adam
Brandon and wife Emma in Wortham. Need photo of Hugh's gravestone still.
Thanks all.


-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Sarah
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 11:12 AM
To: TX-CEMETERIES
Subject: Re: [TX-CEMETERIES] prisoners for cemetery transcriptions?

Good morning, everyone.
I recall someone mentioning a few months ago using county prisoners for help
with cemetery work. I am thinking about making a transcription of a larger
cemetery and could really use some help. How would I go about getting some
prisoners to help? Could anyone tell me the procedures, pros & cons, etc.?
I would appreciate any input.
Thanks,
Elayne Pair Gibbons
www.PairPlace.net


Hi, that was me. Where are you? The City of San Antonio does that, and it
is done by a joint effort of the Parks Department and the County Jail, works
great. They are hard workers, but you have no control over their level of
education, and transcribing takes someone who is literate. I think the time
you spend double checking would be longer than doing it yourself. Of course
you could throw a big party for the town leaders, get them drunk and thrown
in the pokey. Then they could do it. ;-)

I have another suggestion. Take digital photos! That's what I did in New
Braunfels, it took about 6 afternoons, clickety-click, walking down one row
and then another. Then I emailed them to Wanda Qualls, webmother for Comal
County, and she transcribed them. There are a few things we would do
differently if we did it over, like put them in alphabetically rather than
having to search a name to find it, and I would have put a card down on the
ground to indicate a row change. You can look at the results of our efforts
at http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Etxcomal/nbcem.html . She put in a smaller
photo with the transcription, but I still have the larger photos. You could
go to that County's mailing list and find home-bound transcribers
everywhere, and then just email them the photos.

The other advantage to that is having photos of gravemarkers that may not be
there in a few more years. You can document gravemarkers that need
repairing, missing markers, etc. Civil War markers can be sent to the CSA
who always want photos.

Good luck!

xxx
Sarah in San Antonio


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