July
2007
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I
traveled 3400 miles by car to search for 5 out of state
governors. Kellogg (Virginia), Shepley (Maine) and
Wickliffe (Kentucky) were found. Baker (Connecticut)
and Robertson (West Virginia) are still missing. See
the Governors section for more details.
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38
deceased governors have been visited. Their cemetery,
memorial or headstone pictures are posted on this site.
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There are
ten governors yet to visit or find.
May
2006
April 2006
St. Landry is our 31st
parish of cemeteries. It is presented in a rough form.
You can see what we start with. It presently lists 102
cemeteries but a full search has not yet been done, so there
will be many more later. We now list 2923 cemeteries
of Louisiana.
Several hundred pictures
of East Baton Rouge Cemeteries were added .
Many pictures were added
for Ascension Catholic Cemetery in Ascension parish.
Pictures were added to
four more cemeteries following a trip to Prairieville,
Dutchtown and Geismar in Ascension Parish.
Pictures were added for a
number of cemeteries in St. Charles Parish.
Completed page 1 of the
Tangipahoa Parish Cemetery pages. Page 2 is active
with road maps being added. Pages 3 & 4 need aerial
views and road maps.
3/25/6
3/13/6
2/4/6
Caddo
- We are still incorporating data
from Mr. John Head and Joseph Slattery into Caddo Parish
Cemeteries. The end is in sight.
Evangeline - Our 30th parish is Evangeline. Under construction,
but viewable now. All the cemeteries are listed
together with available tombstone transcription lists.
1/28/6
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Parishes now total 29. Our goal for the 1st qtr 2006 is
32 parishes out of Louisiana's 64. There is no resting
going on here!
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Caddo
- Aerial views and road maps are
compete. Now incorporating data for many additional
cemeteries graciously sent to us by Mr. John Head and
Mr. Joseph Slattery.
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Tangipahoa - Usable now. Cemetery hunt was under way, but now
in limbo until Caddo is complete.
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Washington - Usable now but Identifying unknown cemeteries is on
hold. Lots and lots of work left.
1/22/06
This
Times Picayune article details damage to south La. cemeteries due to Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita.
Blogg....December 16, 2005
BACKWARDS PROGRESS...
I could see the light at the end of the Caddo tunnel when I
installed a new version of my mapping software. I'm old
enough to know better. That installation has brought the
preparation of aerial views to a halt. The newer version
of mapping software lost functionality and all my notes for
3000+ cemeteries disappeared from it. Plus I can't add the
cemetery name to the aerial view now. Progress?
Anyway, the maker has issued
one revision to try to fix that but he didn't quite grasp the
significance of the problem and that fix only partially helped.
He's back at his design table and says it'll be fixed in a
version to be released this week. In the meantime I put
Caddo on the shelf and moved to St. Tammany where there are
plenty of road maps to add.
REAL WORK
A month or so ago I started a job in St. Bernard parish at a
refinery that flooded. The devastation I see on the trip
too and fro through ByWater, 9th ward, Arabi and Chalmette
is truly not describable. I pass many cemeteries,
but in the dark both ways. Soon I hope to make a day trip
and get some cemetery pictures.
STATUS
Now well over 3,000 cemeteries in 29 parishes and still
finding more. The ugly grunt work of creating web ready
aerial views and road maps is hampering faster progress.
Recent cemetery visits have
included picture taking. Many photos have been added to
the tables, in Iberville, Ascension, Red River and some other
parishes. I recently misplaced 100 pictures from 12 cemeteries
after a days work somewhere on my giant hard disc. At
least I hope they're still there somewhere and hopefully will arise at some
point.
One cemetery, that has been
vandalized, has an old metal coffin pulled from the grave.
Click to enlarge.
Sadly, many graves in
numerous cemeteries are on the verge of completely disappearing
in 1 to 10 years or less. Those doing transcriptions are
the only salvation for this source of our genealogical history.
October, 2005
HURRICANES
With 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and then Rita, many south Louisiana
cemeteries suffered significant damage from the rising waters
and winds. It appears that some Plaquemine Parish
cemeteries are now lost to us forever from the permanent
flooding and damage of Hurricane Katrina. We expect others
in coastal parishes to be lost also due to permanent inundation
from Hurricane Rita.
Many other cemeteries across Louisiana
suffered the indignity of floating tombs and coffins, often
found miles from their original sites. Many will not be
found for years. The opportunity to have documented the deceased
from headstones is lost forever in many cases.