Congratulations on the updates you have done to the cemetery pages
and the number of visitors you have had since your "take over".
Have a person in Starkville who has been submitting some of her
personal research notes to be added to the cemetery lists on Choctaw Co.
She and I are hoping to do some cemetery surveys this spring and summer (in
all my spare time) that I can post online.
And, I like the sound of a new computer myself.
Jackie
At 10:55 AM 3/13/02 -0600, you wrote:
What a coincidence!
Before I took over Calhoun, someone had sent in a list of cemetery names.
After having someone request directions, I decided to incude directions to
the cemeteries that I could find.
This morning I woke up dreaming that I was standing in a location where I
could see five cemeteries. Some only had a few markers and one was in a
field where obviously a farmer had stacked some stones on top of each other
to be able to plow up close. One had three markers included in a annex to a
building but had a photo of several people that were buried there. (Maybe I
need a dream psycharist). Could this be because I only have about five on
my "hunt down" list.
Anyway, my cemetery page went from a four-page list to about a 16-page list.
Today, a woman from Little Rock was planning to be in Calhoun to do a
"cemetery tour" of where family members were buried.
The site of the Calhoun Cemetery directions is:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mscalhou/Separatecemeteries.html
Since I took over at Thanksgiving, I have had 1925 visitors to the Calhoun
pages. I think that's remarkable for the little rural county that we are.
Rose Diamond
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen Pack" <e.j.pack(a)telocity.com>
To: <MSGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:30 AM
Subject: [MSGEN] This 'n That
> Hi, Folks -
>
> There have been several additions to What's New, if you'd like to mosey on
> over:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~msgenweb/whatsnew.htm
>
> One item, that I hope everyone reads, concerns the new MSGW feature page:
>
> ----
> New MSGenWeb Feature - News Of Mississippi Cemeteries - Information about
> clean-up projects, vandalism, transcriptions in progress, special
> ceremonies, and restoration. Submissions
> welcomed! It is very sad that the first entry concerns recent serious
> vandalism at the Natchez City Cemetery, in Adams County. Read about it -
> can you help? 03/13/02
> ----
>
> I know we're all just sick about things like what happened in Natchez. I
> am especially sad in this case, because one of the markers belonged to
> someone in my line, a young girl who died in 1917.
>
> I've learned that researchers really do visit and enjoy the MSGW special
> pages, and I think this one will be popular and very helpful. But as
> always, we're dependant on submissions. So if you run across some
> information about a local cemetery that you would like to pass on, or if
> you would like to put a blurb on the county lists about the new page, that
> would be great! Any news about Mississippi cemeteries, public or private,
> is fair game. :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ellen
>