I too take photos for find a grave. Like Cheri says it does irk a little to take your own time and gas just to find someone already took the photo. Cheri I am so glad to know you care about the pix you take. I try and clean or trim the site before I take the shot. Occasionally i take flowers too. I have found quite a few relatives in find a grave. I am so thrilled they will not be forgotten! Cheri i don't know how you do all that you do. Thank you! On Jun 16, 2012 5:58 AM, "Shirley Sereque" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm waiting for my brother to send me his "old" digital camera (I still > use film) so I can photograph graves. What I don't care for is one time > the lady requesting the photo (in another city) lived in MY town! Other > obits mention family members living right here so I suggest that THEY take > the photo. :-) > - Shirl - > >> Gail, >> >> There is nothing more annoying to volunteers than to go and take a photo >> just to find out the person requesting asked the world and someone else did >> it and wasted the volunteer's time. Even though I take pictures in larger >> city cemeteries, some are old. Some are so large that the flat memorial >> tablets are trimmed once every X months. So I sit and trim away the grass. >> If there's mud (from the lawn being watered), I pull out my collapsible >> bucket and find a spigot and wash it off. Then I let it dry. If the light >> is not right, I pull out my umbrella and shade the stone the right way. >> >> In fairness to the Find A Grave volunteers, you should take down your >> photo request there and wait and see if anyone on this list picks up the >> request or any other you list you may have posted it on. Find A Grave >> gives the volunteer 2 weeks to fulfill the request after it has been >> claimed. So you could wait 2 weeks after this posting to see if anyone >> fills it. And once someone agrees to take your picture, you need to tell >> every list you posted on that the request has been fulfilled so some other >> volunteer does not go out there to take your photo. >> >> Sorry if this doesn't sound polite. I've been doing the grave photos for >> a few years now on Find A Grave and have encountered a few people who >> didn't take down the request and I used my gas, time, and energy just to >> find out that the request was fulfilled by someone else. Hope you >> understand. >> >> Cheri Mello >> Also a Graver on Find A Grave >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to Azores+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <azores%[email protected]>. Follow the >> confirmation directions when they arrive. >> For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >> (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/Azores<http://groups.google.com/group/Azores>. >> Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will >> take you to "Edit my membership." >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to Azores+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <azores%[email protected]>. Follow the > confirmation directions when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/Azores<http://groups.google.com/group/Azores>. > Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it > will take you to "Edit my membership." > -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
