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Pilotmounders
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 Posted: Mar 09, 2010 3:18 pm Post subject: Finding Granny with a GPS |
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Mrs.PMer is a genealogy researcher & runs her own business & can be found at www.yourrootsareshowing.com; she came across an interesting article that I thought would be great to share with you all.
http://blog.calgarypubliclibrary.com/blogs/local_history_and_genealogy/archive/2010/02/16/finding-granny-with-a-gps.aspx
I know we've discussed the idea with our town of taking pictures of all the markers at our cemetery & posting them on her web page as we get requests to take photo's & email to family members afar, now we can do this as well so that they can come & locate easily or use Google Earth to locate a grave site.
Happy caching,
PilotMounders
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glacier_ice
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Interesting choice being offered. I think, myself, I prefer the stone marker. One valuable thing that this brings up though is the idea of marking graves with GPS coordinates and having those coordinates in a master database.
My Dad has been studying our family geneology for a few years now and building our tree. Some lines he's traced back to late 1500's. He's marked a few stones with GPS, but what a valuable bonus it would be to have every entry in a geneology database linked to GPS coordinates and even a photo.
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