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I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and am more than willing to head out and fulfill your photo requests if you are VERY specific about where the grave is. You can use this tool to search for a relative buried in Ottawa:
http://ogsottawa.on.ca/cemsearch/
Cemeteries can often be sprawling and have many different sections. If you can't identify the exact section/plot, try calling the cemetery directly. They can look it up for you and you can put the info in your photo request.
I am currently documenting Capital Memorial Gardens in Ottawa. Generally speaking, none of them are my direct relatives, so feel free to request a memorial transfer if the person is a direct relative within four generations. This would be your siblings, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
As I can take several thousand pictures/month, I cannot keep up with the transcriptions. I greatly appreciate the efforts of the people who transcribe my photos. Please do not transcribe my photos unless you're willing to commit to it. This means accuracy, of course, but also going the extra mile. After transcribing a photo, you should link together any people on the same marker, to the best of your ability.
Here is a video I made showing my suggested workflow for transcriptions (20 minutes):
https://youtu.be/NEytnKbnTyo
Find A Grave, the Ontario Genealogical Society, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, CanadianHeadstones.com and countless others form parts of a dynamic community of contributors who give selflessly to help us all connect with our family history. Maybe you, like me, are fortunate enough to have the ability, geography and means to get out there and take photos. Or maybe you're one of the armchair warriors who transcribe photos and scour obituaries to add new memorials. We can all do our part, from wherever we are, and we can all make valuable contributions. Please be kind to one another.
I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and am more than willing to head out and fulfill your photo requests if you are VERY specific about where the grave is. You can use this tool to search for a relative buried in Ottawa:
http://ogsottawa.on.ca/cemsearch/
Cemeteries can often be sprawling and have many different sections. If you can't identify the exact section/plot, try calling the cemetery directly. They can look it up for you and you can put the info in your photo request.
I am currently documenting Capital Memorial Gardens in Ottawa. Generally speaking, none of them are my direct relatives, so feel free to request a memorial transfer if the person is a direct relative within four generations. This would be your siblings, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
As I can take several thousand pictures/month, I cannot keep up with the transcriptions. I greatly appreciate the efforts of the people who transcribe my photos. Please do not transcribe my photos unless you're willing to commit to it. This means accuracy, of course, but also going the extra mile. After transcribing a photo, you should link together any people on the same marker, to the best of your ability.
Here is a video I made showing my suggested workflow for transcriptions (20 minutes):
https://youtu.be/NEytnKbnTyo
Find A Grave, the Ontario Genealogical Society, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, CanadianHeadstones.com and countless others form parts of a dynamic community of contributors who give selflessly to help us all connect with our family history. Maybe you, like me, are fortunate enough to have the ability, geography and means to get out there and take photos. Or maybe you're one of the armchair warriors who transcribe photos and scour obituaries to add new memorials. We can all do our part, from wherever we are, and we can all make valuable contributions. Please be kind to one another.
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- Memorials Added
- Memorials Managed
- 20 Memorials per Week
- 11,232 Photos Added
- Photo Request
- Volunteer Photos Taken
- Flower Added
- Followers
- Photos Transcribed
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