You might think that I haven't been posting anything because I wasn't able to get out in the bad weather this winter. Well, that's not the case. There
was no bad weather! I think we had about 4 days of snow. I was actually able to get out and take photos quite a bit. One thing that helped was that my husband started working from home. I could get out for 1 or 2 hours several days a week instead of having to wait for my "day-off", hope the weather was good and make a big trip of it. So I have been taking pictures, but I just didn't get around to blogging about it.
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| Green Lawn front gate on a foggy day. |
I have also been working on several cemetery related projects. The first was a for a guy out west named Devon. He saw on FindAGrave that I had posted several pictures for some of his relatives. He was planning a trip to Columbus in the spring and wanted to visit his ancestors at Green Lawn. He was asking for advise and contact information so he could do as much research prior to his visit as possible. I hated telling him that to get the information from the cemetery office is costly ($3.00 per name); since he was looking for about 35 names. The alternative is to go through all the microfilm at the Metropolitan Library downtown. I offered to do this for him if he would send me the names and as much information as he could. He was so happy! I was able to find the majority of the names on his list and mailed him a packet including the death certificates, individual section maps of the cemetery, and a larger map of the whole cemetery. I'm not sure if he has been here yet, but I hope what I sent to him was enough to make his search easier. (The pictures of Green Lawn are from one of the trips I made to get maps for Devon)
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| Soldier's section. |
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| Foggy day in October 2011. |
The second project I have been working on is creating my own library of cemetery transcriptions. I made a list of all the cemeteries I visit and started looking for anything I could find about each one. I don't mind walking cemeteries row-by-row, but it's a lot faster if I have then headstone readings in hand! I found that many of the ones for Franklin and Delaware County cemeteries are available either on-line or at the Westerville, Sunbury or Delaware libraries. Licking County on the other hand is totally frustrating. Yes, most of the cemeteries were transcribed (back in the 1980's), but they were published in alphabetical order; not order of headstone placement. I can tell who is in the cemetery, but not where to find them, so I still have to walk row-by-row. Because of this I have been staying away from Licking County to some degree. This is unfortunate since there are a number of photo requests for Green Hill Cemetery in Johnstown. Anyway, I now have a 4 inch notebook with about 50 tab dividers holding all of the transcriptions that I have.
