(Note: The regular Eaton County Genealogical Society meeting for November is always held on the 2nd Wednesday rather than the 3rd Wednesday due to Thanksgiving. Meetings are not held again until March.)
We welcomed 3 new people to our meeting tonight. Thanks for joining us Bruce, Tina and Al!
I gave out an updated copy of the Cemetery Project chart and explained what the columns mean.
Several of us have an interest in creating a notebook of cemetery stone symbols and their meanings. Krys says she has started this and will share with us what she has done. So... we have a start! Phyllis and I will meet next Tuesday (October 2nd about 10:30) at the ECGS room and work on this project. If anyone would like to join us, please feel welcome! If you would like to help with this, please let me know. We would love all the help we can get.
Bruce and his wife Carol are reading Freemire cemetery. This is their first cemetery reading and they are off to a great start.
Al and Tina are working on the Woodlawn cemetery in Vermontville. Al has been working with the sexton for several years now, and Tina is documenting the burials of the cemetery. She is using the original burial books to transcribe the information into a file and using one of the forms from the Cemetery Preservation Guide to document each individual with stone photo and other information. It is an exciting project they have taken on and looks very impressive!
They have a Facebook Page for Woodlawn if you use Facebook. Look up "Woodlawn Cemetery" and choose the page that has the photo similar to this.
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| Woodlawn Cemetery |
Tina is using CAD software to map out the cemetery. She gave a small demo of how to use this which looks very fun to try.
A very big thanks to Tina and Al for sharing your Woodlawn project with us.
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