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ABOUT THIS
SITE (Betty Damery & Cleadie Barnett)
Betty and I met
some 20 to 25 years ago, and like most people interested in genealogy,
rubbed shoulders off and on from then on.
Betty's interest
centered around Queens County, and while traveling among the many cemeteries
looking for family members she became aware of a number of cemeteries with
stones that might soon disappear, so she decided to take photos of these
stone, and the whole cemetery. Her collection soon totaled over 4000 photos,
and she was looking for a way to share them with others. A casual remark
let me (cbb) to offer to make a website for her, and teach her how to continue
to add more herself. Unfortunately, her husband's illness and subsequent
passing, put this effort on hold, and it was at the suggest of a third
party that we got the ball rolling again this year.
Cleadie's interest
in genealogy began as a young child. Growing up in Saint John during World
War II, cousins by the dozen used our home as a stopping place while on
leave, or family members visiting these boys. It took some doing to keep
them all in proper families in my mind.
I became one
of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick's first "customers" when it
opened in the late 1960s. One of my first volunteer projects was to collect
all the many scraps of paper that held cemetery records, and place them
in an organized system - by Counties eventually. Since I already had several
transcripts of my own, and many others were working along similar lines
these files soon grew quite large. Since I also kept a copy of many sheets
I made I eventually had a very large collection, which I first published
on my website - New Brunswick's Past. A few years later I became associated
with various County GenWeb sites, and moved my copies to those sites -
Sunbury, York, Queens, Saint John Counties, and St. Andrews Parish, and
now Kings County. When I decided to dedicate my New Brunswick's Past site
to different topics I passed along the remainder of my cemetery records
to the other County sites. Some were used, others were not. I have searched
the various sites and have linked the one that are on their sites to the
corresponding lists on this site, and have added all the information for
those counties who have not used them (or will by the time this site is
fully revised.) With the digital camera I too began to take photos of tombstones,
and have added them to this site.
Mar
2007
During
the month of March 2007, this site is undergoing a major revamping, and
expansion. The initial aim was to get all the cemetery transcripts held
by Cleadie Barnett, online, in whatever format was quickest, with a bit
of "fixing" to form a semblance of conformity (more yet to do.) From there
links were made to existing online items, either on this site, or elsewhere.
This gave us a good idea what direction to take to complete the overall
design, and steps were taken to bring them about. It will still take many
hours of formatting, sorting the photos, etc. before the work is caught
up to date with the materials on hand.
There are two little cameras
on the county list pages. The dark camera means there are actual photos
on the site they are beside. The camera may be linked to the site, or the
link may be made by the name of the cemetery. Just pass the cursor over
the camera to see if there is a link there.
The faded camera means we have
photos for that cemetery, but have not had time to mount them. If you are
interested in one of those cemeteries, drop a line to us at the e-mail
address above and I will put it next on my list to upload. (In the order
I receive the requests.)
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There are many types of cemetery
listings on this site. Over time they will be refined, but for now they
are being added "as is" so that you will note the many places a cemetary
record might be found. There are a number of list for areas that are not
on the internet - such as:
- Published - for these you
could check with various Libraries -- often through Inter-Libray loans
- LDS Lists - check "Family
Search" - their films can often be ordered on Inter-Libray loans as well
- There are also lists made
by individuals and organizations - these are held in special collections
as named.
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