New Posting: With this Covid epidemic, it seems that a lot of
volunteers have stopped going out to take photo requests. They seem to be piling up! I put a hold on this too, but because my hips started hurting too much walking all over the cemeteries! Plus it's too hot here in Summer and the ground is too wet in the rainy season. I hope to get back somewhat when the temps her get down to the 70's again.
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After finding this website while doing genealogy on my family, I found it fascinating and rather useful in a number of ways. I requested a headstone picture of a great grandmother back in Brooklyn, NY and got that right way! I thought that was wonderful and that I could do that for others too.
So I joined and have been getting to know my local cemeteries a lot better.

I'm finding that some contributors do not take the care I do when photographing graves. I bring a utility brush to clean the areas off, pull overgrown grass and weeds off the graves and make sure I have a good shot of it. Because I have Photoshop I can also highlight a part of a marker that is worn and not showing as well as other parts. I like to produce the best picture I can for the requests!

P.S. I don't want other contributors to think I'm a request hog, but there seems to be some cemeteries with photo requests that are a week to a month old at times. After some time has passed and I don't see any others taking these, and at times there are up to 5 or 6 for one location, then I just take them all. That way I've given others a chance to claim them all, so then at least they will get done.

PS: I am not possessive of these pictures I take at your request. Download them and use them at any time, for your family records!

And BTW...those mileage estimates, from my home, are way off. The mileage from were I live to Sac.Co. Memorial is almost 14 miles....one way. The info here gives it as 7 miles! HA!

New Posting: With this Covid epidemic, it seems that a lot of
volunteers have stopped going out to take photo requests. They seem to be piling up! I put a hold on this too, but because my hips started hurting too much walking all over the cemeteries! Plus it's too hot here in Summer and the ground is too wet in the rainy season. I hope to get back somewhat when the temps her get down to the 70's again.
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After finding this website while doing genealogy on my family, I found it fascinating and rather useful in a number of ways. I requested a headstone picture of a great grandmother back in Brooklyn, NY and got that right way! I thought that was wonderful and that I could do that for others too.
So I joined and have been getting to know my local cemeteries a lot better.

I'm finding that some contributors do not take the care I do when photographing graves. I bring a utility brush to clean the areas off, pull overgrown grass and weeds off the graves and make sure I have a good shot of it. Because I have Photoshop I can also highlight a part of a marker that is worn and not showing as well as other parts. I like to produce the best picture I can for the requests!

P.S. I don't want other contributors to think I'm a request hog, but there seems to be some cemeteries with photo requests that are a week to a month old at times. After some time has passed and I don't see any others taking these, and at times there are up to 5 or 6 for one location, then I just take them all. That way I've given others a chance to claim them all, so then at least they will get done.

PS: I am not possessive of these pictures I take at your request. Download them and use them at any time, for your family records!

And BTW...those mileage estimates, from my home, are way off. The mileage from were I live to Sac.Co. Memorial is almost 14 miles....one way. The info here gives it as 7 miles! HA!