We had a great meeting tonight and thanks to you folks who attended!
We received Freemire photos and index! We received an updated Oakwood Oneida index along with entrance/sign photos for Oakwood, Pioneer and Union cemeteries! We also received cemetery Information pages for our website for these 3 cemeteries and there are some very good panoramic photos included (thanks Vicki & Jerry!). Check out our cemeteries page at www.miegs.org/Cemeteries.shtm , then click on the 'Information' links for these cemeteries.
We have volunteers to help get photos from several of the cemeteries for our cemetery symbol project. Thanks Bruce & Carol and Jerry & Vicki!!! Phyllis brought in some more photos to include. Thanks Phyllis for all the work you have put into this project!
Al & Tina demonstrated the project they are working on for Woodlawn cemetery and it was very interesting for all of us! It shows the cemetery in 3D, like you are walking through it yourself. They have some exciting features they plan to put on their website for Woodlawn cemetery, which is now under construction. I am really looking forward to this website and will provide a link to it when it becomes available. In the meantime, there is a Facebook page for Woodlawn. When I find out how to link their page here, I will add the link. Al brought in burial transfer records for people to see. He has organized, scanned and indexed these. Thanks Al & Tina for sharing!
We talked about the photo symbol project. I broke the project into many smaller tasks and later on, possibly some people may agree to help with tasks such as descriptions and proofreading. I gave everyone a copy of this in case they may want to help later on. (While help would be appreciated if you have the time, there is absolutely no expectations that you need to help!) I have set up an Acrobat.com shared workspace where I have uploaded the cemetery project documents and I demonstrated how this works to several people. Thanks Sue for helping me show them how it works! There are now more people who can see how the project is shaping up and can make changes if they wish. There may be some of the Cemetery Project members who aren't actually working on the project, but who may like to see how it's coming along. If so, set up an Acrobat.com account, let me know and I will send you an invitation to the workspace.
We talked a little bit about the guidelines, but did not go through them in detail. Joyce asked how to document cemetery plots that are wider than what you can write across a page. Phyllis has used multiple pages to plot a cemetery, then taped them together. I would love to try the cad program!! I hope I can in the future.
We will talk about cleaning headstones again in April. There is information about this in the historic preservation guide that I will copy and bring. And, we can talk about guidelines again. We talked about something that I thought would be good to discuss some more and I did not write it down and now cannot remember... darn! If any of you remember, please comment on this post. It had something to do with the reading of a cemetery.
I know we talked about more so please update this with what I have forotten!
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