Where to Find a List of Cemeteries
by Steve, Thursday, December 28, 2006
I received an e-mail from someone wanting to know where they can find a list of all active cemeteries for a given county.
Here was my response...
There really isn't anyone who keeps a log of these things. Not even funeral homes have such lists, because they only work within a localized area. There are companies that publish cemetery directories, but they only list the cemeteries who bury more than 30-50 bodies per year. Some websites list all cemteries, active and inactive, for a given county.
If you can't find anything satisfactory through a Google search, "Jones County Arkansas cemeteries", then you'll have to create a list of your own.
Steve
Here are a few books that offer some solutions:
If anyone knows of any comprehensive listings of cemeteries, click on "Post a Comment" below and mention it.
by Steve, Saturday, December 23, 2006
There's a new website that lists photos of Jewish tombstones in Iran.
The website is the work of Los Angeles resident Shahram Avraham Farzan.
Farzan visited Iran back in 2002 to find his father's grave. While there, he found other Jewish graves and decided to photograph as many as he could, over a thousand in all. In many cases, he had to carry in buckets of water to wash off the dirt and mud, just so he could photograph them.
The site has apparently become very popular among American Jews having ancestry in Iran. Many Jews are fearful about travelling to Iran after the country's president voiced his intent to kill all of the world's Jews.
Visit this website online at:
http://www.beheshtieh.com/
by Steve, Friday, December 22, 2006
The website redesign is moving along quite well. I have all of the index pages changed over to the new design. I'm now in the process of converting the data pages over.
The data pages utilize the full screen, which should dramatically larger, assuming your screen resolution is larger than 640x480, which probably 99% of you are. To see what it looks like, take a look at a transcription in Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, or Connecticut.
I still have the home page to convert, as well as the search results pages, and then it'll be done.
So, when will it all be done? Well, I'm trying to get it all done before March 1, 2007. March is our 10th anniversary of being online.
