Christian County Genealogical Society will be presenting a Cemetery Walk (actually 3 of them) on May 19th, 2024. Various actors will portray notable people who are buried at Harper’s Ferry Cemetery just outside Palmer. The presentations will be at 1, 2 and 3pm. Actors will portray the local individuals and tell stories of their lives […]
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The purpose of the Society is to collect, preserve and disseminate genealogical and historical material, especially that which pertains to Christian County and make it available to the public for research. The society’s research collection has been combined with the collection of the Christian County Historical Society and is housed in the Pence Building on
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March 1st I started the Billion Graves Project for Price Cemetery, photographing approx. 1200 Headstones and Markers and getting them uploaded to the website at www.billiongraves.com , now we have to Transcribe them all and use the GPS data and Grid Map every one of the graves onto our Map and Transfer that info to
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I graduated today from the International Association of Professional Organizations and completed my Genealogist Certification. Very proud to add this to my list of credentials. A huge amount of studying online and book work here at home, but it paid off this morning when my email came in from my final exam with my Diploma
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What is Billion Graves? How to take photo’s: How to Transcribe photo’s:
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Finished up RedBank Cemetery for the Billion Graves Project. Was able to locate and photograph 157 memorials of the 199 listed as being here. Approximately 42 not found / unmarked. Now to get them all Transcribed. As always we are looking for volunteers and if you want to join in and take pictures or if
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Photographed all of Saint Paul’s Cemetery up at Pilot’s Knob by Dollville. It has 190 memorials listed on Find A Grave as being there, I could only locate 161 to photograph and catalog for Billion Graves. Now I can spend the afternoon Transcribing the pictures and getting all the information for each logged onto the
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Awesome time this afternoon, being guest speaker to a pretty packed house at the Christian County Genealogical Society. I got to share information to everyone in attendance pertaining to Headstone Cleaning and Repairs as well as Safe and Do No Harm Methods for better transcribing pictures of headstones and memorials. I also covered quite a
Christian County Genealogical Society November 2023 meeting has a very special Guest Speaker coming, yep you guessed it Ralph Falconbury from As Above So Below. I will be speaking to the group this month about preserving history with Proper Methodology for Cleaning headstones and monuments that are Safe and Approved while Doing No Harm. Topics
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Volunteer and help us get all our little community cemeteries cataloged onto the website with photos and information for family historians, genealogists etc. Every cemetery we do is full of interesting history that is lost to time if no one records it. Get involved, start your own project or help with one of ours. Volunteer
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