In addition to the two new county pages which you have just been
notified of, several other revisions of other county pages have been made
with additional information, including the cemetery pages for Adams,
Asotin, Douglas, Garfield, and Lincoln Counties. We have also added
recently the burial list of the Mukilteo Pioneer Cemetery in Snohomish
County.
Of the state's 39 counties, 22 now have comprehensive cemetery pages
online. In each case, the names and locations of all know county burial
places are given, after many hours of careful research. In every case, the
listing and information shown is the most accurate and comprehensive ever
done and published for that county, and draws upon all known sources.
Washington leads all other states in USGW in getting this sort of
material online, and I have not found any non-USGW webpages for any state
that can compare. When finished this will be a model resource, unique to
Washington GenWeb. At the same time I can report to you that our effort to
place online the burial lists of the state's cemeteries is moving forward
rapidly, and that Washington leads all other states in this regard. This is
something in which we can all take pride.
In the Washington Cemetery Project we now have almost 150 past and
present volunteer transcribers, and approximately one third of the over
2000 cemeteries in the state are being worked on. Within the next month or
two I hope to get online several dozen cemetery transcriptions which have
already been completed.
Thank you,
Kevin Fraley (Swimref(a)cmc.net)
Director, Washington Cemetery Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wa/wacem.htm
State Coordinator, USGW Tombstone Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/washing.html