Google+

I'm not one to jump quickly on the newest bandwagon, so I surprised myself that I did with the Google+ Project. Perhaps it was because of my use of Google and its products. My blogs and facebook are what I'm using these days. I never found a need for Twitter and others.

I've seen several blog posts about how it compares to facebook and will give it a little time before I make a decision on whether it has value for what I do or is more work.

For now I am building my circle of genealogy and cemetery friends. I do like that I can group people and share my posts to a particular circle only.

So, if you follow this blog and are experimenting with Google+ circle me.

Online Map

Online resource: Muscogee County, GA Cemetery Map

Memorial Art, Ancient and Modern

Online resource: Google eBook.
Read online or download as PDF

Memorial Art, Ancient and Modern
by Harry Augustus Bliss, 1912

Illustrations and descriptions of the
worlds most notable examples of
cemetery memorials.

Chapters 

1. Famous Ancient Memorials
2. The Mausoleums of the World
3. The Sarcophagus
4. The Exedra in Memorial Design
5. The Cross
6. The Tablet
7. Sculpture and its Relation to the Present
8. The Obelisk and Square Monument 
9. Architectural orders in Monumental Work
10. Suggestions on Lettering
11. Mouldings and Comparison of Architectural Orders
12. Glossary

Cemeteries: A Source for History

Read this article, by Curt Witcher, online. It is from the Jan/Feb 2005 issue of Ancestry Magazine, which is no longer published.

 Cemeteries: A Source for History

Buffalo Pitts Rollers

Wonder if any were actually used in a cemetery?

The Modern Cemetery
March 1914

Mocavo

While I was out of town a new genealogy search engine launched...

About Mocavo

The world’s largest free genealogy search engine, Mocavo.com, provides genealogists access to the best free genealogy content on the web including billions of names, dates and places worldwide. Mocavo.com seeks to index and make searchable all of the world’s free genealogy information. While Mocavo.com discovers new sites every day, some of the existing sites searchable on Mocavo.com include genealogy message boards, family trees, state and local historical societies, the Library of Congress, National Archives, Ellis Island, Find A Grave, the Internet Archive, various U.S. state archives, and many tens of thousands of genealogy sites built by individuals. Similar to other search engines, Mocavo.com honors site owners by linking directly to their content.

I searched for my blog and it didn't come up, but a link from the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery to my blog did. Perhaps it will get indexed soon. The search results happen fast.

 
I searched for my name and had 525 results. I didn't check all of them but those I did were for me on websites that I manage or posts and messages from days gone by. Other results:
 
Cemetery symbolism - 317
Kansas cemeteries - 1,725
Cemetery blog - 3,040
 
It will be interesting to see search results in the days ahead. Dick Eastman and Randy Seaver have reviews linked from the home page. Stop by and see how it can help you.

Read ABOUT Macavo on its blog.

Cemetery Art Video

I haven't done much genealogy research lately. And that means I haven't checked for changes over at FamilySearch.org either. We usually give periodic updates at our genealogical society meetings. Wow! Was I in for a surprise when I visited the site recently.

I haven't navigated through it all yet but I can tell it is much more organized and user friendly.

Starting with the front page---click on the "What's New?" button and follow the updates.

And at the bottom of the home page---check out the free learning courses.

Once you get there you could spend many hours learning so much with some great resources....all at your finger tips.

Scanning down through the list I see there is a video on Cemetery Art by the Midwest Genealogy Center which is part of the Mid-Continent Library. I didn't get to watch all of it but I do plan to go back and finish it.

You can also get Slides from the video in PDF.

This reminds me of a pending project I haven't finished....short videos on the cemeteries in my county. Maybe I'll start over on one and use my new camera that also does video and see how it turns out.

Here is something interesting---I am working on a very detailed project for this cemetery. All of the work is shared with the city and sexton. This document would be interesting to look at and pass on to a fellow researcher that is documenting all of the civil war soldiers.

I can see where I will be spending some time in the near future. Stop by and check it out too. You just may discover something new.

Online Resource: Mapped Cemeteries

From this post I had 2 comments and wanted to expand on the subject of using maps for locating cemeteries.

First, my genealogy research focuses on the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. I live in Kansas, in the small hometown of my husband. So, these are the states that I have experience in ordering and using county maps from the department of transportation.

~ County Maps by State
Do all states provide county maps for purchase? I don't know. But a quick Google search will answer that question for you.

AL DOT screen capture [with arrow added by me]