Cemetery Challenge May 2017 aka Gravedigger's Challenge

Date: May 2017 to 31 May 2017
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: cemeteries challenges gravediggers_challenge

Ask for a cemeterist badge if you don't have one yet. See Project: Global Cemeteries for explanations of how to and don'ts. Project:Global_Cemeteries

Check to see if your cemetery exists, check the project link above. Current Subprojects: Mexico, United States, Canadian, European Cemeteries, England, Ireland, Oceania, Australia, New Zealand

Follow the links down to the county.

O.K. the trick is to add a cemetery category to a profile to create a new cemetery, if it doesn't exist. It will be red, but when you save it it will exist. Add categories to your new cemetery e.g. [[Category: Newport County, Rhode Island, Cemeteries]]

Put people in the cemeteries (add categories to the profiles of the people buried in a cemetery)[[Category: cemetery, town, state]] e.g. [[Category: Portsmouth Friends Churchyard, Portsmouth, Rhode Island]]

Add Find A Grave links to profiles

Keep your score of the above, 3 numbered lists, new cemeteries, new occupants/graves, new links.

Adding sourced, dated profiles for people in the cemetery is fair game. Please connect them to the family tree if possible. If you work on family groups this isn't too bad. Check all the people in your cemetery with the same last name.

It would be easiest to start off just putting people in existing cemeteries.

High scorers will be announced June 1, 2017

Note: you don't have to create anything on Find A Grave, but you certainly can if you want to. The cemeteries in my area are pretty complete on Find A Grave. I have a profile on Find A grave and have added to it.