Cemeteries

Johnston County, North Carolina Land Records Now Online

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:40:00 +0000

NBC17 out of Johnston County, NC reports that all Johnston County land record books back to the mid-1700s are scanned in and now searchable online, at the Register of Deeds office website...

http://www.johnstonnc.com/registerofdeeds

All vital records, which include marriages, births and deaths have been digitized since 2003. Land records from 1940 to 1988 were digitized in 2005. Birth and death images date back to 1913 and marriage images date back to the 1700s, with some of these records being marriage bonds.

Cemetery Cleared for a Driveway

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:02:00 +0000

One of our visitors submitted the following e-mail to me today regarding a cemetery in the UK that was recently cleared away for road construction...

My name is Alfred, first I wish to thank you for a excellent site which I use every day for both Australia and now the UK your site has saved me countless hours of traveling in Australia and now as I live in Australia I cannot get to the UK can you tell me when Middlesex, London and Northamptonshire are likely to come online.

I recall a incident that I had on a visit to the UK after not knowing where they where buried until I reached 60 years of age to locate my mother and both sets of grand parents at Kensal Green cemetery only to find that the cemetery operators had bulldozed a road to form a roundabout so traffic can turn around They had of course taken the top surface of a number of grave albeit paupers Grave and the small markers that told you who where buried there where just thrown into the bushes nearby so as you can gather my total disgust at this and even more so after sending in writing a protest to the UK Government and told by them that they had no control over this as Kensal Green was a privately owned company I thought you could not desecrate any grave.

So this would be one of the problems you must come across.

Thank you once again for a brilliant site and keep up the good work and hope to hear from you soon.

Alf.

As to his first question, we don't target specific counties to publish transcriptions in. Rather, if someone sends us a transcription for a cemetery in that county, we'll publish it. So, it all depends on what material people send to us.

As for this cemetery being paved over, it's always a shame to hear of such things. And in fact that's a reason why websites like ours exist, to preserve the information in electronic form in the event of such development.

In the 1930s, the US Government created something called the "Works Progress Administration", otherwise known as the "WPA". It was during the time of the Great Depression, when millions of Americans were without work. The government gave them all jobs. Within the WPA there was a division called the "Historical Records Survey", and believe it or not, this included an effort to preserve abandoned cemeteries in written record.

I ran across microfilms of their work, and read the descriptions they recorded. And this was back in the 1930s, describing cemeteries dating back to the early 1800s, and even late 1700s. They walked through thick brush, and cleared off old tombstones, many of which had been unreadable at that time.

So even as far back as 70 years ago, people had searched for abandoned graveyards in an attempt to preserve them for future researchers.

Correcting Errors in Transcriptions

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:46:00 +0000

We continue to receive e-mail asking why we won't make corrections to errors in transcriptions.

Please take a look at my previous article on this topic...

http://www.interment.net/column/2006/02/our-policy-on-correcting-errors.html

The most important point is that transcriptions are not meant to be "open documents" where the public, or even ourselves, are allowed to make corrections. Rather it's a snapshot of someone's effort to record information they found elsewhere.

A genealogist wants to know what was recorded on a tombstone, or in a sexton's records. That's another important reason why we don't make error changes.

It could be that the tombstone is inscribed with errors, or the sexton's records contains errors. Even if you know that information is incorrect, the genealogist still wants to see what information is out there, correct or incorrect, and then decide what information to rely on.

We are trying to support exactly that. To let the genealogist decide. That's why we don't allow anyone else to make corrections to these transcriptions.

Now, typing errors is a different matter. But it's not possible for us to determine what is a typing error versus incorrect information from a tombstone or sexton record. Hence, we need the author of the transcription to advise. So when you notify us of an error, we contact that author, and let them decide. If that author feels he or she transcribed the information accurately, then we'll leave the transcription alone.

But what if the author doesn't respond to our inquiry? It could be he or she has since changed their e-mail address and has not informed us of the change. We've also had many authors pass away since their last contact with us. In that case, we need proof it was a typing error, and not an error on the original record.

I realize that if you saw your mother's burial info on this website, and noticed incorrect information, it becomes an emotional issue. But remember that Interment.net was not meant to memorialize the deceased, rather it's meant to be a genealogical reference.

So please keep in mind proper genealogical protocol, which is to transcribe records character-for-character, and not add editorial modification.

Subscribe to RSS Via E-mail

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:07:00 +0000

I set up a feature where you subscribe to our RSS Feeds via e-mail. (Click here).

Whenever we update our "What's New" page, or our blog, you can have an e-mail sent to you to let you know about it.

The e-mail will contain the actual content so that you can see what new cemeteries are now online, or what new articles I've posted on this blog.

It's a free service.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of the e-mail.

The e-mail service is powered by Feedburner. In fact when you subscribe you'll see their page pop up.

Motorcycle Camping Trip Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:08:00 +0000

Arrived at Zion NP around 4:30pm. Mostly good weather the way up, but had some gusts. Right now we are sitting around the fire drinking beer and 12 year old Scotch. Ate a pack of hot links. Folks have digressed to bitching about OBAMA.

Temps are getting cold right now.

I plan to stay up all night long and party out in preparation for a long cold day of riding tomorrow.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

New Homepage Launched

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:06:00 +0000

So what do you think about the new homepage?

Like it? Cleaner? Or just different?

Heading Into the Cold

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:53:00 +0000

Just a note to say that this Saturday I'll be heading out on a four-day motorcycle camping trip from here in southern California to Utah.
Every Easter week me and my buddies do some kind extended motorcycle trip, to get away from the madness of the city, and to get some freedom of the open road.
I tried to get done as much as I could with Interment over the past couple weeks, before I take off.
But I won't be too far away. I decided to get the new Blackberry Storm 9530 to see how well I can stay connected.
In fact I'm writing this on the Blackberry.
Of course when us go riding, we go into places where there's no network access. So we'll see what happens.
If I can, I'll post daily update here.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Changes to Interment.net

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:41:00 +0000

Many of you have contacted Maggie and I about the search engine being non-functional over the past few months. It's back to working.

What happened is that previous search engine software ceased running due to our server getting hacked into and corrupted beyond repair. My hosting provider offered wipe the server clean, reinstall the operating system, for a large fee. I refused, on the grounds that the server was pretty old anyways, and I could get a new server, with more power, for less money.

It was a long several months of migrating the website to the new server, without having control of the old server. I still had FTP access to the old server, however, and could transfer files to the new server. Except the old server kept locking up after transferring 20-30 files. I had to submit reboot requests into my hosting provider each time. The site has something like 40,000 files.

Talk about tedious.

But instead of reinstalling the same search engine software, I decided to chuck it in favor of Google's "AdSense for Search". It's the same Google search engine you're already familiar with. Seems to be more accurate, more intuitive, than what I had before.

And it doesn't have the old problem of forgetting your search query that my previous search engine software had.

The drawback with using Google is that it doesn't index new transcriptions and changes instantaneously like the old search engine did. New transcriptions probably take a day or two to index, compared to just one or two seconds with the old search. That's not too bad, though. But deletions and edits will probably take weeks, or months to index through Google.

I also removed some ads that didn't really monetize well, but added others. Overall, I think the pages are little more cleaner.

About all that's left to do at this point is to convert the homepage to the same page design the rest of the site uses.

I'll also try to blog here more often. I may not have much to talk about in the world of genealogy, and Maggie already does a great job of updating the "What's New" page. But I thought I'd chime in with some thoughts on technology, as it relates to genealogy, whatever news people send me, and some updates on what I'm up to.

Cemetery Records of Niagara County, New York

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:25:00 +0000

Pete Ames, the president of the Friends of the Local History Department at the Niagara Falls, NY Public Library, announced that their library now has (in book form) the burial records for the following cemeteries on hand...

Oakwood Cemetery, Portage Road, Niagara Falls, NY
Memorial Park Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, NY
Holy Trinity Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, NY

Contact the local history department there at (716) 286-4899.

GenCircles Merges with MyHeritage

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:07:00 +0000

Pearl Street Software, maker of GenCircles and Family Tree Legends, has merged with MyHeritage.com, recently named one of the best genealogy Websites of the year 2007 by Family Tree Magazine. The first move from this merger is that Family Tree Legends (a genealogy software) and GenCircles have been made 100% free!

The merger is also bringing the "Smart Matching" technology free for GenCircles and MyHeritage users. Smart Matching is a specialized genealogy technology developed by Pearl Street Software and further advanced by MyHeritage, to connect family trees. It works by comparing millions of names, facts and tree connections - intelligently. When two family trees are connected, both their owners are informed, and benefit from the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other.

They advanced the Smart Matching technology into what they call, "Smart Matching 2.0", which covers spelling and phonetic variations, understands nicknames and name synonyms and deals better with ethnic variations.

Visit online...

GenCircles...
http://www.gencircles.com

Family Tree Legends...
http://www.familytreelegends.com

MyHeritage...
http://www.myheritage.com

O'Bits of Nebraska

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:46:00 +0000

Barbara Starks announced her new website called, "O'Bits of Nebraska", where she publishes images of newspaper obituaries from Nebraska newspapers, prior to 1930. Here's her announcement...

I have been working on this project for over four years now and will continue to work on it until I feel I have covered all of the counties sufficiently in Nebraska.

Why is my site different?

O'Bits of Nebraska has the actual images of Nebraska residents from newspapers primarily before 1930. To search the database is free, although there is a nominal charge to receive the selected obit via email with payment through PayPal.

Visit O'Bits of Nebraska online at...
http://www.obitsofnebraska.com

County Roscommon Genealogy Book

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:29:00 +0000

There's a new genealogy book available that will help you research your lineage in County Roscommon, Ireland.

Entitled, "A Guide to Tracing your Roscommon Ancestors", it's written by John Hamrock, and published through Flyleaf Press.

It's described as being filled with information on what the records contain, and how and where they can be accessed. It is well illustrated with maps and with examples of the types of records to be found. It also has en extensive listing of references to estate records, and also to family histories. There is also a comprehensive index.

The softcover book contains 161 pages, and can be purchased online for $18.50 USD...

http://www.flyleaf.ie/Roscommon.htm

Footnote.com Launches WWII Photos Collection

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:26:00 +0000

Footnote.com today announced the addition of thousands of US Air Force photos to their digital World War II collection. This release coincides with the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing, and contains tens of thousands of original World War II photos and documents from the National Archives. Among this collection are missing air crew reports, documents from allied military conferences and photos of Japanese air targets.

"They say that a picture is worth a thousand words," says Russell Wilding, CEO of Footnote.com. "What's exciting about this collection of photos is they also include captions that tell stories of the people and events in the photos."

Footnote.com has added these new pictures and documents as part of a much larger, ongoing effort to preserve the heroic memories and stories of the brave men and women that served in World War II and other wars.

"We are providing priceless content from our archives and libraries that is only a part of a much larger picture," continued Wilding. "While this is an extensive collection of history, we understand that many people out there have valuable pieces of history in their personal record collections within their own homes. We encourage everyone to upload their own photos, letters and documents contained in their old shoeboxes."

Footnote.com is leading the movement to preserve the documents and stories about World War II and invites everyone to join in this effort. Uploading photos and documents and creating memorial pages is completely free on Footnote.com.

To view samples of these photos and other World War II documents, visit Footnote.com at...

http://www.footnote.com

Kindo Family Tree - New Social Networking for Genealogists

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:43:00 +0000

A website called Kindo.com recently announced its official launch, offering genealogists a "Web 2.0" version of online family tree collaboration.

Kindo describes itself as a social network for genealogists, with an emphasis on creating and sharing your family tree. It's core feature is the collaborative family tree, and the information added by family members. But it also features family news, a family calendar, and statistics that make it easier to stay in touch with the family.

Since so many families are spread out around the world, Kindo is already in 11 languages: Swedish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Afrikaans, and English.

Kindo links...

More about Kindo: http://kindo.com/blog/whats-kindo/

The Site: http://kindo.com

Demo: http://kindo.com/blog/2007/10/26/how-to-use-kindo/en/

California Genealogical Society has a Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:31:00 +0000

The California Genealogical Society launched a new blog last month. You can find it here...

http://calgensoc.blogspot.com/

Now you can keep up to date on the all the happenings there.

Free Alabama Genealogy Website

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:57:00 +0000

Donna Causey announced her new free Alabama genealogy website, "Alabama Pioneers"...

http://www.alabamapioneers.com/

She has GEDCOM files that can be downloaded for free, Court, church, death records, etc....all free. She adds new data daily.

FindMyPast.com Adds National Burial Index for England and Wales

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:18:00 +0000

FindMyPast.com, a UK family history website, announced that it is adding data from the National Burial Index for England and Wales.

The National Burial Index is a finding aid for burials that took place in England or Wales between the years 1538 and 2005. As such, it pre-dates the civil registration of deaths in England and Wales, which only came into effect on 1 July 1837, therefore enabling family history enthusiasts to delve even further back into their ancestors' pasts.

The details of over 10 million burials are contained in the database. It provides the full name, date of burial, age at death, (when given in the original source), name of the county, parish and the church or chapel where the burial took place.

The burial data brings together in one easy-to-search central place the disparate records from local parishes, which members of local family history societies have been compiling since 1994, under the guidance and encouragement of the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS). It includes records from parish registers, non-conformist registers, Roman Catholic, Jewish and other registers as well as cemetery and cremation records. It will complement the Latter Day Saints' International Genealogical Index (IGI), which contains mainly baptisms and marriages.

The NBI data records can be accessed as part of an Explorer subscription package or with pay-per-view units.

Visit FindMyPast.com...
http://www.findmypast.com

4th Annual Genealogy Conference & Cruise

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:46:00 +0000

Wholly Genes, Inc., of Columbia, Maryland, today announced their 2008 Genealogy Conference and Cruise, October 26-November 2, 2008.

Here is their press release...

This extremely popular annual event has a reputation for its unrivaled speaker list, exceeding even that of most land-based family history conferences. Like the three years before it, this is expected to be a sold-out event.

In 2008, eleven of the most prominent professional genealogists and technical experts from the U.S., England, and Ireland will share their experience and advice with several hundred family researchers while sailing to the tropical islands of the Caribbean. This year's event will include at least 16 hours of expert presentations on genealogy methodology and tools (without a focus on any particular software) and will use a schedule of non-conflicting lecture times so attendees can make the most of this unprecedented educational opportunity.

Attendees will also have the rare chance to schedule private one-on-one consultations, to share a casual meal, or to attend other social events with the speakers, many of whom are giants in the genealogy community:

Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, longtime editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.

Barbara Vines Little, CG, former president of the National Genealogical Society and Virginia Genealogical Society.

John Grenham, Ireland's foremost genealogist.

John Titford, LHG FSG, prominent British genealogist and popular author.

Craig Scott, MA, CG, certified genealogist and military record expert.

Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, professional genealogist and popular author.

Cyndi Howells of Cyndislist.com, an expert at online resources.

Tony Burroughs, FUGA, popular genealogical author, teacher, and lecturer.

Although not providing lectures, the following additional speakers will host breakfasts and private consultations:

Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, Director of the Great Migration Study Project for NEHGS.

Sandra Hewlett, CG, professional researcher and councilor for the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Dick Eastman, technology expert and editor of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.

In addition to attending the main lectures, users of The Master Genealogist (TMG) project manager will find a variety of presentations about how to make the most of that software and its companion programs. Attendees will meet Bob Velke, President of Wholly Genes, Inc., and be able to schedule private consultations with him and many other prominent researchers in the TMG community, including John Cardinal, Lee Hoffman, Jim Byram, and members of the TMG support team.

Planned cocktail parties and other events will give attendees the chance to mingle with other group members, swap research interests, and make new friends. An attendee from North Carolina remembers the last such event as a "wonderful way to vacation, meet new friends with similar interests, and learn a lot in the bargain!"

The 2008 conference will be held on the majestic Caribbean Princess as it sails from New York City to the exotic ports of St. Kitts, Antigua, St. Thomas and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Traveling companions who aren't interested in the lectures might want to relax with a book on a private balcony or take advantage of the many shipboard features, including pools, saunas, exercise equipment, jogging track, golf simulator, putting green, racket games, Internet cafe, and a large casino. The lecture schedule leaves family and friends to spend evenings together for a quiet dinner or to enjoy live shipboard entertainment, night-clubs, and even an outdoor movie theater under the stars. Four tropical ports and optional guided shore excursions will round out a truly memorable vacation.

"A cruise ship makes a relaxing environment in which to learn from the experts and improve our research skills," said Velke. He added, "However, not many educational opportunities also include the ability to spend quality time with family and friends on tropical islands. We are very pleased that so many people have enjoyed this format in past years and we are looking forward to another great event."

Prices for the week-long 2008 Genealogy Conference and Cruise start at about $843 per person (inside cabin, double occupancy) and include the cruise, food, shipboard entertainment, and attendance to all conference events. A roommate-finding service is also available.

Complete details of the cruise can be found at...
http://www.WhollyGenes.com/cruise.htm

Grandmaland - Cemetery Amusement Park

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:10:00 +0000

Where will we bury the baby boomers?

Matthew Ware Coulter, an historian, answers the question in his new novel, "Grandmaland".

Grandmaland is a grandiose burial resort and theme park in West Texas, designed to provide a final resting place for the baby-boom generation. The novel follows the development of Grandmaland from its beginnings as an idea in the mind of history professor Calvin Marpoult to the grand opening of the facility.

Along the road to Grandmaland, Marpoult meets a fellow baby-boomer and statistician, Patricia Cornwall, and two work together to make the vision into reality. Included in the vision is a world-class Museum of the Baby Boom which will preserve the history of the boom generation and present it to the boomer's descendants who visit Grandmaland.

Marpoult's efforts to secure financial backing for the project lead him into the tangled and murky business dealings of the Texas-based Royce Group, an investment company with high-level political connections and links to the Central Intelligence Agency. Professor Marpoult literally finds out where "the bones are buried" from the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and discovers connections to the Watergate scandal of the 1970s and the savings and loans collapse of the 1980s.

When the Royce Group tries to tell Marpoult how to present the story of his generation in the Museum of the Baby Boom, the professor is forced to defend the integrity of history.

The book is available through Amazon.com...
http://www.amazon.com/Grandmaland

Incorrect Info in Everton's Genealogical Helper

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:13:00 +0000

I was informed of an article appearing in the July/August 2007 edition of Everton's Genealogical Helper entitled, "The Best Grave Sites on the Internet."

I haven't read the article.

However, I am told that it contains a statement on page 74 about us that is factually incorrect. The article says that...

"The contributors to Internment.com must grant them exclusive rights to a database. As a result, Internment.net has to be included in any survey of burial information on the Internet, because it contains mostly unique entries."

I'm the publisher of Interment.net, and I don't ever recall requiring submitters and contributors of transcriptions to grant us an exclusive license to their work.

Our policy on copyrights and license are explained on our "Terms of Use" page...

http://www.interment.net/terms-of-use.htm

Under the subheading "Proprietary Rights", we state that the original copyright holder of the work retains their copyright, they don't transfer it to us.

Under the subheading "Submission of Materials" we state that anyone submitting their work to us for publication grants us a full unlimited license to republish that work on our website. Nowhere does it say that this license is exclusive.

That means, anyone submitting their work to us is still free to submit it elsewhere or publish it elsewhere as they please. All we're saying is that when you submit it to us, you're giving us your permission to publish it.

I sent off an e-mail to the editors of Everton's Genealogical Helper.

Motorcycle Cremation Urns

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:39:00 +0000

A company called, "Final Ride Products" decided that just because you died doesn't mean you can't ride anymore.

They offer a special urn designed to be mounted to a motorcycle. Now your cremains can enjoy the freedom of the ride practically forever as long as people are willing to pass the urn down from generation to generation.

The moto-memorial product is the creation of Steve Radz, who claims to have come up with the idea after waking up in bed...

In February 2002, Radz was working in Bosnia as a master mechanic when he woke up one day about 2 in the morning and sat up in bed. "I had the great realization," he said.

"I just saw in front of me a motorcycle tubular cremation urn. I invented the product from my mind. I drew it up on paper, and I had one made. The design hasn't changed much from the one I drew years ago."

And it doesn't have to hold ashes either. In fact Radz has a tube mounted on the forks of his Harley-Davidson containing a few of his brother's personal items: a lock of his white hair, a coin from his unit in Vietnam, a 173rd Airborne combat patch and his parachute wings. "In Memory of Monk" is inscribed on the gold cap.

Visit Final Ride Products online at:
http://www.1finalride.com

Where to Find a List of Cemeteries

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:22:00 +0000

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:

The Cemetery Directory - by Nomis Publications, offers a national directory of active cemeteries, but only those burying more than 30 bodies per year. Only about 3,000 cemeteries listed in here

Historical Atlas of Alabama, Cemetery Locations - offers a very comprehensive listing of active and inactive cemeteries, with maps and detailed descriptions.

Oregon Burial Site Guide - an exhaustive compilation of cemeteries and lone burial locations throughout Oregon

If anyone knows of any comprehensive listings of cemeteries, click on "Post a Comment" below and mention it.

Jewish Tombstones in Iran

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:28:00 +0000

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/

Site Redesign Underway

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:28:00 +0000

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.

Mickell Cemetery, Covington County, MS

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:42:00 +0000

I received an e-mail from a woman in Mississippi who is trying to locate information about G.W. and J.J. Mickell. If you can help, please post a comment below.
I am Ann of Covington County, Ms. and helped survey the cemeteries of Covington County. I read a most interesting book written by T. Shuck Powell, a baptist minister, who rode the circuit of Bethany Salem, Williamsburg and Leaf River Baptist Churches in this area in the early 1880's. He mentioned a Mickell Cemetery which he describes as being on a high hill one mile from the Robinson's overlooking Hooker's Hollow. He participated in a burial of one of this family and mentioned, G. W. and J. J. Mickell. I have never seen it in the cemetery books. Do you have any information about this?