I have some sites with cemetery transcriptions that are over 30 years
old some are even close to 40. One is my home county, I update the
cemeteries from obituaries at least 3-4 times a year. Since it is a
small town, pretty much anyone who is from Hernando County, FL who is
over age 50 I have known all my life or all their life and a good many
of those are related to me one way or another. I am also the All Class
Reunion Historian and keep track of our HS Alumni deaths. Until 1975 we
only had 1 high school and the one that was built in 1975 is on the west
side of the county which is all transplants from up north so few of them
are known to me. Most my sites have a cemetery transcription that the
original has been added to greatly. I tend to put names of spouses,
children parents and sometimes even grandparents in the Note/comments
section along with any military service.
I find it confusing to have more than 1 transcription of the same
cemetery on the site. By adding to the existing, you lose no
information and get a good idea of how many markers or head stones have
deteriorated or just plain vanished. Lately we have had a rash of old
ornate stones disappearing and one cemetery in particular has had ALL
the headstones stolen not once or even twice but 4 times. Fortunately
all but a couple were recovered and now they are kept on the grounds of
the Historical museum. Fortunately it is a small cemetery, but it is
also the oldest cemetery with burials dating back to the 1830's. The sad
thing is, we have no clue which headstone belongs to which grave! The
original theft was in the 1960's, the most recent was in the 1980's. We
no longer publish directions to our rural cemeteries online for this
very reason and at least 30 of our oldest cemeteries are way off the
beaten track in State Forest Preserves.
Some folks just have no respect at all!
Laverne
On 11/27/2014 9:20 PM, Timothy Stowell via wrote:
A number of years ago, I had a gentleman transcribe a number of DAR
cemetery transcriptions and send them to me. Some years after that another
gentleman walked the actual cemeteries, dug into the history books and
allowed me to use his work as well.
At one point after that he related to the county list, that his
transcriptions were meant as a refinement of what the other gentleman had
sent along.
To this day, both sets are available for researchers - letting them decide
what they want to take as factual. Both gentleman, now having passed a
number of years ago, if such knowledge is available in the great beyond,
know the answers.
Tim
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