Announcing the new Cemeterist Project! [closed]

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We are pleased to announce that the Global Cemeteries Project is reorganizing as a functional project and relaunching as the new Cemeterist Project! This change will help us to better align with our member badge, as well as serve as the foundation to better support WikiTree during the Year of Accuracy.

In order to meet WikiTree's global mission, and the goals of this project, our members will be those who volunteer to partake in a series of tasks in their local areas, from start to finish:

• photographing tombstones, markers, monuments, and memorials;
• transcribing the data contained within these photographs to ancestor profiles, while also ensuring that all duplicates are merged to the lowest number;
• honor our ancestors by creating biographies that conform to the WikiTree Style Guide, and are connected to the main WikiTree family tree;
• finding and adding additional reliable sources for the profiles we create or edit (e.g., Birth, Marriage, and Death Records; Census Records;);
• identifying and grouping these profiles through the use of relevant cemetery and regional categories; and
• documenting the history of cemeteries through the use of free-space pages.

If you have your camera in hand and are ready to start working your local cemeteries, please submit your 'Answer' below and let us know what area you will be documenting cemeteries in!

GCP Members, please submit a new request to join the Cemeterist Project!

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Hi Everyone, I am hiding all top-level comments.

If you would like to join the project, please provide an 'ANSWER' to this post.

If you would like more information, or have any questions for a Project Leader, please contact me privately via my profile.

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Hi there! I want to join. I live in Santiago, Chile. And (this is a one day offer!) I'm visiting Buenos Aires, Argentina and I'm open to special requests if there's any particular need of taking photographs or gathering information.

Answer 1

Yes, I would love to help in the pnw region of Washington state. Whatcom county and possibly other areas as I travel through the pnw.

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Answer 2

I currently live in the Northern VA/ DC Metro area and hope to also be able to travel back home to Pittsburgh, PA once Covid is over. So I should have access to quite a few cemeteries.

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Answer 3

Hello Steve, I would enjoy joining in, up here in the wilds of the hill farms of Northeast Wales, there are a lot of family plots on the farms themselves. As some of these farms are multi-generational there are opportunities for family histories that might not as easily found in more urban areas.

There are also very old cemetairies up in the villages.

The only problem at the moment is we are in total lock down, and access to our neighbors is limited, so my participation n't be much at the moment.

James

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You're welcome, looking forward to being allowed out to get started.

James

Answer 4

Central Minnesota.

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Answer 5

Locally:

Norfolk, VA, USA

Regionally:

VA, USA

OBX, NC, USA

North East NC, USA

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Answer 6

I would love to join this project.  I am in Caldwell Idaho, near Boise.

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Answer 7

Count me in for New Zealand please.

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Answer 8

Hi Steve

I have already photographed quite a few cemeteries around the region...I ready to share providing there is an easy way to upload the information & images.

Keen to learn more

Susan

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Hi Susan, what area are you located in?

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I live in Woodend, Victoria, Australia and have fully photographed many of the smaller country cemeteries near me...some have already been transcribed & uploaded to www.gravestonephotos.com, these are accessible through ancestry or direct from their website.

I do not upload to find-a-grave as it is too difficult & the photos all need uploading individually, which is too time consuming for me. I'm happy to share all I've done with wiki if you have a simple way to do this.

Happy to learn more

 Susan

Answer 9

Sign me up :)   I have been slowly working on long term projects in various Lincoln County and Dawson County, Nebraska cemeteries.

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Answer 10

Greetings,

I am happy to submit my photographs for Tippecanoe County Indiana cemeteries.

Lou Ann

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Answer 11

I would like to work on the cemeteries in Ogle County, Illinois.  I have many pictures and listings.  I will start with Buffalo Grove Cemetery.  You have great guidelines for creating the pages, so I will plan to get started this weekend.

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Answer 12

I would like to join.

I have been working on a project about the Alton Cemetery, in the village of Alton in Peel Region, Ontario for about 5 years. Almost all of the people buried there are related to my husband.  All 86 profiles in the Alton Cemetery category are his relatives.

I have photos of most of the headstones, I won't be able to take more until we are out of lockdown and it's spring.

Also today I found a website that has documented 16 Cemeteries on Barbados, it's not something I can be involved with, the site has pictures and transcriptions and all info is Creative Commons licensed.

http://monumentalarchiveproject.com/archive.html

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Answer 13

Hi!

I live in the Battle Creek, MI area and would be able to start documenting the local cemeteries, if needed.  Thanks!

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Answer 14

Hi

I have been working on two cemeteries in Taunton, Somerset, England:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:St_George_Churchyard%2C_Taunton%2C_Somerset

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:St_Mary%27s_Cemetery%2C_Taunton%2C_Somerset

It would be great to be part of the new Cemeterist Project.

Kind regards

Lucy

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Answer 15

Will continue with York, PA area.

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Answer 16

I have been working on the Dresden Cemetery in Muskingum County, Ohio. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Dresden_Cemetery%2C_Dresden%2C_Ohio

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Answer 17

I am interested in volunteering to photograph gravesites. I am in Philadelphia. Elise Smith

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Hi Elise, I have you down for Pennsylvania.

Answer 18

Hi,

I'd like to help with Cumbria, England.  I have thousands of photos that I've taken for FindAGrave, and most of them I've transcribed carefully (I usually take one of the full gravestone then more to make sure it's all readable). I'm more interested in the ground work part and basic data operations.  I'd start by uploading the photos I've already taken and adding more as I take new ones. I'm also willing to do requests as time and travel restrictions allow.

Randy

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Thanks Randy, we have you down now!

Answer 19

I am working on the cemeteries associated with the Wikitree weekly challenge. I have been adding cemetery categories to the guest's ancestor's profiles and making Free space pages of the Cemeteries that they are buried in. I hope this qualifies me for membership in this project. Here is an example of a Free Space page I made recently.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Montrepose_Cemetery%2C_Kingston%2C_New_York

At the same time, I may go to some local cemeteries in New Jersey and try to connect people I knew in life to the their graves and the tree.

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Hi Nancy, the focus of the project is through the use of our own photos and transcriptions to build profiles. I will add you down for New Jersey.

Answer 20

I will be working in Spokane, WA

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Hi Aimee, I have you down for Washington!