| This new section of the site (Autumn 2004) reflects my own focus on
community as the organizing structure of the site, just as it is of the world in
which we live. By arranging the obituaries by the individual cemetery, we are
able to tell the story of a particular neighborhood within our three county
area. Obituaries are the biographies of community members, and they tell us
collectively of the values and diversity and relationships of that community
served by the cemetery. This approach arises from my own project,
Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project, which is the genealogy of the communities in
and surrounding those two townships. While not everyone takes a community based
approach to genealogy and history, I think all researchers can benefit by
studying their ancestors in the context of their time and place. It broadens our
understanding of their lives and of our history in general.
It is also a way to keep our many hundreds of cemetery listings updated. We
do not have the resources to even finish reading all 700 cemeteries in the area
represented on this site, let alone update the ones we have read. Obituary pages
by cemetery help us keep current a little better.
I am also hoping that his organization will encourage site guests to submit
their obits AND ACCOMPANYING PHOTOS WHERE AVAILABLE to help this part of the
library develop. Those who have used the site for many years understand that its
success relies on the willingness of its users to also contribute to the body of
knowledge it contains. Obits can be submitted typed in word processing or even
just in your email and sent to me (Joyce M. Tice). Please do not send just
images or copies unless you have no alternative. Those will have to be sent to a
typist and we are short of those. Obits can be current or old. If the obit does
not specify the cemetery and you know it, please include that information so we
can present the obit in the proper cemetery page. If possible include the
paper that published it and the date. Obits for people with local connections
buried outside of our three counties will go to the regular obit - clipping
pages. New pages added here will not necessarily be listed on the What's New
pages as they often start with a single obit and develop more fully later. They
are added to regularly as obits are received and processed.
The continued development of this section of the site is up to the
willingness of you, the site guest, to submit your obits. There are already 215
pages of obits on the site that are not arranged by cemetery, but they are a
source for this section as well. If you submit an obit from an existing page,
please say so and give me the page number, so that I can delete it from the
other location. The more obits we have submitted the better we can tell
the story of these communities and the people who have lived in them.
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Joyce's Search Tip - January 2008 
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Do You Know that you can search just the
Clippings and Scrapbooks on the site by using the
Clippings
button in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the
Current What's New Page?
You'll also find obituary and other newspaper clippings using the three
county-level Obits by Cemetery buttons. Additional clippings can be found
in the Birth, Marriage, and some other partitions. |
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