Introduction to Tomb-talk
I wanted to open a series of discussions with some of the more prominent
people involved in cemeteries and genealogy, primarily those on the Internet.
Webmasters, list-coordinators, site editors are often known by no more
than their e-mail address and the little musings on their websites. So,
I set about creating a new department on the Column: Tomb-talk.
I hope to meet some of the Internet's more prominent people involved
with cemeteries and genealogy and give them a more human quality so that
we can think of them as real people, like the rest of us, and not just
by an e-mail address. Of course, we are all familiar with Cyndi Howells
and Lee Everton and the other well documented people, so I won't go there.
Instead I will be focusing on the ones who won't otherwise achieve national
fame, but yet are still pioneers of their fields.
I had actually conducted an interview with Paula
Easton, the coordinator of Cemetery Photos back in August of 1999,
and filed it under "Featured Articles". I took the liberty moving
it to Tomb-talk. Thus, officially, that becomes the first entry into Tomb-talk
However, I kick off Tomb-talk with an interview with David
Podmajersky of DistantCousin.com. David's website is a "portal"
into the world of Internet Genealogy, but unlike other portals, David
strives to serve the genealogist with a simple and well oragnized
website design, and meticulously checks for broken links. Unlike other
portals, that pride themselves on the number of links (40,000 links, 50,000
links, etc.), David sifts through the Internet to provide his visitors
with the "meat", the sites that provide "real information".
I'd like to believe that one day Quality will rise above Quantity, and
perhaps David is a pioneer in the making.
Enjoy reading.
- Steve Johnson
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