Tombstone Tuesday spent at the cemetery.

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Today I spent some time at the San Marcos Cemetery taking some more photo's of the tombstones. I think I covered about another 50-75 photo's in what I call section 3 I guess. So far I think that I have taken about 400 tombstone pictures at that Cemetery. I have not posted all of them online just yet, but I am slowly either posting them on Tombstone Tuesdays and adding them to FindAGrave.

I would have thought it would have been easier to add them to FindAGrave but I guess its just the way I am learning to use the website, plus the way I have taken the pictures out of any sort of order. I have to look through each picture to find a match or just add a new memorial to the cemetery on FindAGrave.

Another thing that I was wondering today about photographing at cemeteries do folks usually go up to the front office and talk to the cemetery about taking the photo's or do they just go take pictures. I know there are slight differences between grabbing one or two photo's of say a loved one or for someone from FindAGrave and trying to take a picture of every stone in the cemetery. Just curious on everyone's thoughts on it.

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David has been an avid home genealogist for 15 years, researching surnames: DECKER, KONDRC, MACZEK, HOPFENGARTNER, PERUTZ, LEDERER, and more.

3 comments:

Free Genealogy GuideJanuary 17, 2011 at 9:59 AM
I would recommend checking in with the cemetery office before taking photos. A couple of reasons why. First, it will give them a heads up and allay any concerns that may arise about you spending a goodly amount of time in the cemetery taking photos. Second, they are the experts, and they will be able to give you information about the layout and the graves themselves.
AnonymousJanuary 18, 2011 at 5:05 AM
I just take pictures and handle questions as they come up. I don't take photos in small cemeteries where a funeral is in progress, and in the larger ones, if there is a funeral, I go off to a section far away.

That said, most of my graving happens on weekends when the office (if there is one) is closed.
Heather Wilkinson RojoJanuary 18, 2011 at 5:49 AM
It's worth checking with the cemetery, or in Derry, NH, with the "Friends of Forest Hill Cemetery". They have a big project underway to provide photos and bios for each grave, so you don't want to duplicate efforts, and there may be some other way you can help out. But not every cemetery has an office, or a "friends group".