Join the Cemeterist Project - Preserving Our Ancestors' Legacy

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Cemeteries are among the most valuable of historic resources. They can serve as reminders of various settlement patterns, or they can reveal information about historic events, religions, lifestyles, and most importantly, our genealogy. Unfortunately, these cemeteries do not necessarily remain permanent reminders of our ancestors and past since they are subject to long-term deterioration, neglect, development activities and construction projects, and even vandalism and theft.

Do you have a passion for photography? Help us capture the beauty and history of cemeteries worldwide.

If you're skilled in indexing and want to contribute to preserving genealogical data, we welcome your expertise. Help digitize and transcribe cemetery photos for future generations.

We're excited to announce the upcoming creation of a new challenge team in 2024! Have any ideas on a team name? Would you participate with us? Let us know below!

2024 Cemetery Challenges are being scheduled now! We will kick off the new year with a month long Photographer's Challenge from Jan 1 to Jan 31. And if photography is not your style, we have you covered! Join us on 7-day journeys of Sourcing, Connecting, and Collecting challenges.

For more details, or to stay up to date on future challenges, see the 2024 Cemetery Challenge Calendar.

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Ready to get started? Click on the "Answer this post" button when responding, and let us know in which geographical area you would like to work in.

Thank you for joining the Cemeterist Project on this journey!

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I am interested in helping. I am in Collin County, Texas, and there are many historic cemeteries in my area.

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Hi Jessica, we're happy that you would like to join us.  Please click on the dark green "Answer this post" button and post your answer there.  Then I can get back to you with more information.  Thank you!

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Here is today’s article of an ongoing series I have done on cemeteries in The Apopka Voice, Florida. It has an international readership but is based in Orange County abutting Lake and Seminole counties in Central Florida. 

https://theapopkavoice.com/stories/apopka-watches-over-its-fallen-heroes-with-the-eyes-of-a-hawk,73729

Each time I write I include the Wikitree links about the souls, sometimes the editor includes the links and sometimes he doesn’t. If I embed them, he usually does. 

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Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

Answer 1

Hello, I'm based in the north of the Vienne department in France. Post code 86330. I'm primarily a photographer, although I've been doing genealogical research (mostly my own family tree) since 1990.

Can cover a lot of the area south of the River Loire, from Nantes to Tours and south to Limoges and La Rochelle - given time. I may also travel to other parts of Europe for sailing events, and can shoot locally there as well.

Best regards,
Ant

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Welcome to the Cemeterist Project! 

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Answer 2

I would like to join the sourcing challenge.  I have several cemeteries in my family where ancestors are buried that are not in Wikitree and unfortunately I do not know how to create a cemetery listing.

Anyone living in La Grange County, Indiana know of a cemetery called Pixley Cemetery? Or perhaps it was renamed and that was a previous name or something similar.  This is not in Find a Grave.

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Welcome to the Cemeterist Project! 

We have added you to the membership roster for the location you are working on.  From this roster you will be able to easily find other members who are working in the same geographical area as you. 

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If you have any questions, please let us know.

Answer 3

I am already a member of this group. Do I have to sign back up?

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Hi Katrina. No, you are all set. Thanks for all you do.

Answer 4

Why are you re-inventing the wheel. We have loaded more than 13,000 photos to findagrave which is available to all. There is no point to duplicate the millions of photos on that site.

Answer 5

In the South Simcoe Area, of Ontario (North of Toronto)

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Answer 6

I have a camera and have done some Cemeteries/Grave Photos in the Central Texas area before.

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Answer 7

Hi! I'd like to join this project. I've taken many photos for Findagrave. I live in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Answer 8

Hello.

I'm very interesting old German evangelical cemeteries in Poland. I'm a photographer.

I live in Poland, Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

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Answer 9

I live in Delta, BC, Canada and would like to participate in this challenge. I take photos around the lower mainland of BC.

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Answer 10

I'm based in East Midlands, UK.  I'd be happy to do some photography locally.  How can I find out which cemetries are already covered?

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Answer 11

I'd love to be a part of this project. I'm in Hardin County, Ohio, and could get to many places in the whole Northwest Ohio area, but will be concentrating on around me to start.

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Answer 12

I have started a small project on the war memorial in my church (it only has 17 names). Could this be added to the Cemeterist Project?

The project page is at St Mark's Darlington War Memorial and the location of the memorial is Plus Code GFX3+C8 Darlington which converts to Lat/Long 54.548562,-1.546687.

Some of the people named on the memorial are buried in the local cemetery (Darlington North Cemetery), so I would potentially be interested in working on that cemetery.

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P.S. Please look for a private message from me.

Answer 13

I live in South Carolina.  I am interested in helping out as I can in the Southeast region.

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Answer 14

I'm interested in helping. I live in Madison Co, KY and can try to get pics in the surrounding area when weather permits.  I have experience with Find A Grave. Willing to help any way I can.  Thank you. Judy

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Answer 15

I would like to participate.  I am in Eugene, Oregon.  I am also involved with my ancestors cemeteries in Smartsville and Grass Valley, California.

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If you have any questions, please let us know.

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Answer 16

I am interested in joining. I mostly research in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania currently. I am also a member of the Appalachian Team. I live in Taylor County, Kentucky. I can transcribe headstone information, create, source, and categorize profiles. Thanks!

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Answer 17

I'm very interested in helping in the southern part of the panhandle of Texas. If I may, I'd love to keep the counties private. I'm happy to drive out and take photos, cite sources, or help people find someone somewhere in this area.

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Answer 18

I create cemeteries whenever I find my family and friends are not accounted for areas that should be.  I also add known burials in old cemeteries that were never recorded.

I catch up or correct FindAGrave at the same time.

I wish that we could get the actual names used on the deed, cemetery, FindAGrave, Wikitree, categories synced.

I have created and filled several cemeteries over the years on FG and WT, even that the County didn’t know existed.

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Hello, please look for a private message from me. Thank you.

Answer 19

I'm interested in helping! I am the historian at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Va., and our cemetery is part of a complex of local cemeteries that were established around 1809 or later. I'm not the best photographer but I can help with indexing.

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Answer 20

I am interested in contributing. I have added a few cemetery categories so far. Also have been connecting profiles to them. I'm in western Maine and primarily interested in southern Oxford county and possibly northern York county.

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Welcome to the Cemeterist Project! 

We have added you to the membership roster for the location you are working on.  From this roster you will be able to easily find other members who are working in the same geographical area as you. 

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If you have any questions, please let us know.