Cemeteries Photographed by - Allen Wheatley
Feb.
2018 - With the loss of RootsWEB I have been moving my
data to a site I pay for instead of the 'free' rootsweb.
I started photographing just my relatives in their cemeteries but found
I needed to go back often to get newly found cousins. So I
switched to getting complete cemeteries. Now I rarely go to a
cemetery because of relatives therein, I just enjoy getting all the pictures
and sharing with you. Please copy any for your personal records
but since you do not own them, please note that they came from http://teafor2.com
if you republish them.
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Frequently Asked Questions:
1. Is this my business? Yes, it was just a hobby but I needed a way to offset expenses so I posted ads on the web pages. For 2 years it was a loosing proposition but it may come close to breaking even or better in the third year. None of the pictures require you to pay or buy anything.
2. Am I related to these people? Probably not. I will not have enough time to research everyone's family tree for them, so don't take it personal if I do not respond in a timely manner. You will get better responses from your family by posting on the Surname Boards at RootsWEB.
3. How can I Help? Take lots of pictures. Build your own WEB site and post the pictures for all of us to use. http://freepages.rootsweb.com offers free space for your project and offers assistance in setting up a site. I can help you too.
4. I can't build a WEB site! There are two wonderful sites that allow you to upload your own pictures without you having to know how to build a web page. Look into http://www.FindAGrave.com or www.genealogy.com/vcem_welcome.html .
5. How are the files named? For single person stones, I use:
LASTNAME FirstName MiddleName NickName BeginDate-EndDate
For multiple persons stones it is
LASTNAME FirstName MiddleName NickName 'and' FirstName MiddleName NickName
For dates:
Date-Date means born-died
-Date means died on date
Date- means birth date ( person may be living or buried elsewhere )
Date Only one date is given - usually a baby born dead or died soon.
Also: if the stone is for a veteran I end with _.JPG instead of the usual .JPG
After the familyname that starts an entry I began putting two or more underscores to indicate a family grouped in the area of a family marker. As I got more groups in a cemetery I just added another _ . That got out of hand when the 5th, 6th, etc groups in a cemetery as 6 _s and7_s look a lot alike so I just put the number of _s after 3 like _4_ and _5_ . I trust this will help keep the groups together in my listings. The problem, the individuals are no longer in order by last name. Have a solution? Let me hear it.
6. What kind of equipment do I use? The first 71,000+ pictures were taken with an HP C200 1 megapixle camera that cost me $29.99 The first 128meg card for the camera cost $94 and the second was $34. The second camera is a Refurbished HP Photosmart 435 3.1 Megapixle that cost me $39. The laptop (cheepest IBM ThinkPad) on sale was $700. The Storage from Rootsweb is free, but I bought the domain teafor2.com to allow flexibility in web site placement and to handle the volumes of mail for about $34 a year. Travel and meals away from home have not been kept track of before 2004 as was already showing great losses and almost no income to offset it. I hope to be able to actually stay in a motel occasionally in the future so I can get full days of photography away from home. The Wireless line at home is great but I would have that anyway. Counting travel, equipment, and internet, I am out about $2000 a year and have only gotten a small fraction of that back from the advertisements.
6a. My how time flies. I had to purchase a new laptop and a new camera since writing the above paragraph. CD, DVD and Disk drive happen more often then I'd like. Pictures take a lot of space. I have retired so I have to watch the pennies closer and my new boss doesn't send me on trips alone.
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