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Canadian Headstones Photo Project Seeking Volunteers Posted 09 January 2010 By Jim McKane, Canadian Headstones Photo Project 
The mission of the Canadian Headstones Photo Project - CanadianHeadstones.com - is to capture digital images of headstones, and transcriptions of the text on those headstones, of our ancestors. As decades pass -- many stones are becoming harder, if not impossible, to read the inscriptions they originally contained. By archiving the images, we can help save these important records and also assist researchers using this valuable resource. Growth of the site has been very rapid since inception, expanding to over 23,000 indexed records since July. We have a large group of steadfast volunteers which is ever-expanding. There are a number of volunteers on the cusp of large volume additions to the database at this time. CanadianHeadstones.com has a separate website and database for each province and territory. The site is fully automated so that uploading the photo, editing and transcribing the text from the headstone is very easy and fast. Then, to avoid SPAM and errors a coordinator approves each entry. The system is designed to be very user-friendly. The database is fully searchable by surname, firstname, starts with, contains and even sounds like. We are seeking:
2) coordinators to assist me in "approving" the photos as they are uploaded. 3) volunteers to photograph headstones of cemeteries and upload them. 4) genealogical societies, church groups and others who would like to create a photographic archive of their cemeteries 5) your assistance to install a link to CanadianHeadstones.com on any websites possible. The success of this Project will depend completely upon the efforts of many volunteers and other individuals who contribute photographs and time to the Project. Comments, questions and offers of assistance should be directed to Jim McKane at - jamckane@gmail.com Jim McKane, Canadian Headstones Photo Project - CanadianHeadstones.com
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