RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
I got my photo this morning and I appreciate all of your help. The person uploaded it on find a grave. Gail From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheri Mello Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 7:38 AM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo Some photo requests (especially rural) can take a couple of years. I just take them down and resubmit later for my rural requests. If a month is too long for you to wait, call the cemetery. Some larger cemeteries will take a photo for you for a fee. I think the better venue for grave stone photo requests is Find A Grave. They have an entire system and they are able to filter it for the cemetery location you are requesting. This list is over 960+ people who live in America, Canada, the Azores, New Zealand, Australia, etc. The focus of this list is Azorean genealogy research and many people not in the area of Alamada County. Since you got help from someone on this for a previous photo request, I suggest you email them directly (privately) to their email address. Take down the request from Find A Grave and wait for the person from this list who previously took the photo for you to take the other photo for you. Hope that expedites your photo request, Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
Some photo requests (especially rural) can take a couple of years. I just take them down and resubmit later for my rural requests. If a month is too long for you to wait, call the cemetery. Some larger cemeteries will take a photo for you for a fee. I think the better venue for grave stone photo requests is Find A Grave. They have an entire system and they are able to filter it for the cemetery location you are requesting. This list is over 960+ people who live in America, Canada, the Azores, New Zealand, Australia, etc. The focus of this list is Azorean genealogy research and many people not in the area of Alamada County. Since you got help from someone on this for a previous photo request, I suggest you email them directly (privately) to their email address. Take down the request from Find A Grave and wait for the person from this list who previously took the photo for you to take the other photo for you. Hope that expedites your photo request, Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
Thanks Cheri, I do understand your view. The only reason I asked was when I requested last time at the same cemetery, I waited for over a month and someone on this group got it for me. When he got me the photo I did go on Find A Grave and updated the request. Gail From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheri Mello Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:18 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
I had responded to someone who requested a photo on findagrave, here in Oregon so I know what you mean. I went in the rain and there is no office at this cemetery where graves are marked. It took me two hours to find it and I was soaked by the time I was done. When I emailed the person the photo she stated oh I already received it!!! LOL I thought you got to be kidding me. I need to go to St. Mary's myself, but I live in Oregon and do not know when I will be going to California. If you don't get it, before I go I will email you when I know I am going. (It will be this summer) -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
I also did put in a request in Find A Grave. Gail From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheri Mello Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 4:17 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo St Mary's where? I bet there are hundreds in the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand... If your ancestor is listed on Find A Grave, I'd click the Request a Photo button there. If your ancestor does not have a memorial on Find A Grave, I'd make one and then click the Request a Photo button. Find A Grave then emails the top X people on the list within a Y mile radius of that cemetery. Also, there are "gravers" that will browse the photo requests and pick them up and go out to the cemetery to take a picture. City cemeteries have a better response rate than rural cemeteries. Nevertheless, Find A Grave has an army of volunteers that like to take tombstone pictures. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
Sorry, it's at St. Mary's Alameda County, California. From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheri Mello Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 4:17 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo St Mary's where? I bet there are hundreds in the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand... If your ancestor is listed on Find A Grave, I'd click the Request a Photo button there. If your ancestor does not have a memorial on Find A Grave, I'd make one and then click the Request a Photo button. Find A Grave then emails the top X people on the list within a Y mile radius of that cemetery. Also, there are "gravers" that will browse the photo requests and pick them up and go out to the cemetery to take a picture. City cemeteries have a better response rate than rural cemeteries. Nevertheless, Find A Grave has an army of volunteers that like to take tombstone pictures. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
I just successfully used find a grave to get a picture of the family headstone at St. John the Baptist cemetery in New Bedford as all the names are on one stone, only took them a couple of days, great idea... On Jun 15, 2012 10:10 PM, "Gail Elizares" wrote: > If anyone in the near future goes to St. Mary’s Cemetary, would you please > take a photo of ggrandfather’s grave. His name is listed as Caton Souza > and is located at Y14-26th. > > He died on 05/04/1933. > > ** ** > > Thanks, > > ** ** > > Gail > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Grave Photo
St Mary's where? I bet there are hundreds in the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand... If your ancestor is listed on Find A Grave, I'd click the Request a Photo button there. If your ancestor does not have a memorial on Find A Grave, I'd make one and then click the Request a Photo button. Find A Grave then emails the top X people on the list within a Y mile radius of that cemetery. Also, there are "gravers" that will browse the photo requests and pick them up and go out to the cemetery to take a picture. City cemeteries have a better response rate than rural cemeteries. Nevertheless, Find A Grave has an army of volunteers that like to take tombstone pictures. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
