OBJECTIVES

1. The objective of this *Update Newsletter* is to itemize and publish monthly additions and changes to The *Canadian Gravemarker Gallery* website.

2. The Main Objective of the *Canadian Gravemarker Gallery* website, is to collect and process *completely photographed* cemeteries from across Canada and place the photos online as valuable free-access resources for Genealogists. Descendants of those buried in marked graves in the cemeteries and cemetery crawlers also show a keen interest.

BREAKING NEWS

1. On 25 May 2011, Canadian Genealogy lost a good friend with the passing of Scott Naylor, who was the Webmaster of the Ottawa Region Grave Marker website. In accordance with his wishes, his website and 10 years of hard work is being kept alive through merging with the Canadian Gravemarker Gallery.

2. To assist in this merging of the two websites we will accept help from anyone who may have time on their hands and are reasonably familiar with operating a computer. We will provide in depth instructions and help you to get started. Our Contact email address.

REMINDERS

1. If you know the Region of Canada where your ancestors are buried, please click the new "REGIONAL SEARCH ENGINES" button located on the Main Page and choose the Search Engine which will search a specific Canadian region for your ancestor.

2. Please note the "MAIN Search Engine" continues to search the entire website....!!!!!!

3. For those kind folks who wish to give us a hand, please note that the "PayPal Feature" has recently been added to the Website

COMPLETE CEMETERIES ADDED/UPDATED THIS MONTH

1. British Columbia, Northern Okanagan, Armstrong, Spallumcheen Cemetery.

2. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, Kennedy Cemetery.

3. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, Dewar Cemetery.

4. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, Prospect United/Methodist Cemetery.

5. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, Maplewood Cemetery.

6. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, Pine Grove Cemetery.

7. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, St. Augustine's Anglican Cemetery.

8. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, St. Augustine's Anglican Cemetery.

9. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, Carleton Place, St. Mary's RC Cemetery.

10. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Beckwith Twp, Carleton Place, St. Fillans Cemetery.

11. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Drummond Twp, Perth, Elmwood Cemetery (List)

12. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Lanark Twp, Innisville, St. John's Anglican Cemetery

13. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Lavant Twp, Brownings Cemetery

14. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Pakenham Twp, Pakenham, Pakenham RC Cemetery

15. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Pakenham Twp, St Peter Celestine RC Cemetery

16. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Pakenham Twp, St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery

17. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Ramsay Twp, Auld Kirk Cemetery

18. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Ramsay Twp, Carleton Place, St. James Anglican

19. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Ramsay Twp, Almonte, St. Mary's RC Cemetery

20. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Ramsay Twp, Almonte, St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery

21. Eastern ON, Lanark County, Ramsay Twp, Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery

22. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Cambridge Twp, Grant Presbyterian Cemetery

23. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Cambridge Twp, St. Euphemie RC Casselman

24. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Cambridge Twp, St. Viateur RC Cemetery

25. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Clarence Twp, Clarence Cemetery

26. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Clarence Twp, Hammond Protestant Cemetery

27. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Clarence Twp, St. Pascal de Baylon Cemetery

28. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Russell Twp, Loucks Cemetery

29. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Russell Twp, St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery

30. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Russell Twp, Our Lady of The Miraculous Medal

31. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Russell Twp, St. Andrew's and St. Paul's Cemetery

32. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Russell Twp, North Russell Union Cemetery

33. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Russell Twp, Ste. Therese D'Avila Cemetery

34. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Treadwell, St. Leon Le Grand Cemetery

35. Eastern ON, Prescott-Russell County, Glenburn, Glenburn Cemetery

35. Eastern ON, Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry Counties, Baldwin, St. Peter's Anglican

36. Northern ON, Muskoka District, Oakley Twp, Vankoughnet, St. Stephen Cemetery

37. Northern ON, Muskoka District, Ryde Twp, Barkway, Community Cemetery

38. Northern ON, Parry Sound District, Waubamik, Sylvan Acres Cemetery

39. Northern ON, Rainy River District, Morely Twp, North Branch, Pine Ridge Cemetery

40. Saskatchewan, East Central Region, Pelly, Greenwood - North cemetery

CEMETERIES IN PROGRESS OR EXPECTED

1. British Columbia, Southern Okanagan Region , several cemeteries.

2. Central Ontario, Durham County, Various Cemeteries.

3. Eastern Ontario, Northumberland County, Various Cemeteries.

4. Northern Ontario, Nipissing District, North Bay, St. Mary's R.C., Being Updated now.

5. Northern Ontario, Thunder Bay District, Thunder Bay, Mountainview Cemetery Remaining Blocks.

6. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District, Morrison Township, Mickle Cemetery Being re-photographed.

7. Northern Ontario, Rainy River District, some cemeteries from Fort Frances.

8. Southern Ontario, Peel Regional Municipality, Various Cemeteries.

9. New Brunswick, Queens County several cemeteries.

10. Prince Edward Island, Queen's County, various cemeteries.

OVERVIEW PROGRESS REPORT

1. Central Ontario, Renfrew County is completely online.

2. Northern Ontario, Nipissing District is completely online.

3. Northern Ontario, Parry Sound District is completely online.

4. Northern Ontario, Muskoka District is 95% online.

5. Northern Ontario, Sudbury District is 95% online.

6. Northern Ontario, Temiskaming District is 95% online.

7. Northern Ontario, Manitoulin District is 95% online.

8. Northern Ontario, Kenora District. Waiting for more cemeteries.

9. Northern Ontario, Rainy River District Volunteers are continuing work on Fort Frances cemeteries.

10. Northern Ontario, Cochrane District. Work continues on Timmins Memorial and other cemeteries.

11. Central Ontario, Hastings County. Work continues on Hasting County cemeteries.

12. British Columbia, Thompson-Okanagan Region. Additional cemeteries are being processed.

13. Prince Edward Island. Waiting for volunteers to come forward.

WEBSITE FOCUS

1. At the *Canadian Gravemarker Gallery*, we can accommodate unlimited numbers of photographs of complete cemeteries from anywhere in Canada. The photographers and/or organizations are given credit on the website for their interest and hard work.

2. The oldest and largest website displaying grave markers in Canada, this free-access National Site is proud to announce that there are almost 1,000 cemeteries completely photographed and onboard, amounting to over 375,000 searchable photographs. There have been over 650,000 visitors to the site. Each day there are over 200 folks browsing the site and there are over 16,000 name searches each month.

3. If you have family or friends ANYWHERE in Canada, who may be interested in photographing their local cemeteries, please inform them of the availability of The *Canadian Gravemarker Gallery*. Their completely photographed cemeteries will have world wide exposure on this popular National Cemetery Photograph website.

4. If you and/or your organization have photographed your local cemeteries and are interested in them going online, please contact us at our email address. There are no cemeteries too big or too small. They will be placed online at absolutely no cost to you...!

5. A comprehensive "Tips and Hints" aide memoire in English or French is available online. To help everyone get started photographing entire Canadian cemeteries, a copy of the Aide Memoire can also be emailed to all interested folks.

SUBSCRIBING TO THE WEBSITE UPDATES NEWSLETTER

Don't miss future monthly updates. Subscribe to the automatic Gravemarker Galleries Newsletter. Please go to the Website and click on the "Join Updates Newsletter" button located just above the weather row.

HELPFUL HINTS - SUMMARY

1.Regional Search Engines. If you know what region of Canada your ancestors are buried, have you checked out the "Regional Search Engines"...? This is a New Feature available on the front page.

2. Searching large cemeteries. All cemeteries with over 5,000 burials now have an exclusive search engine which will search only that cemetery...! Scroll down the individual cemetery page watching for the "search box" and supporting narrative. Example.

3. Tracing female ancestors. Cemeteries online have spousal duplicated photographs. This means a photo of a stone which also has the spouse's maiden name showing, is duplicated and when one searches using the onboard search engine, for a surname, the spouse's surname will be reported as a separate "search result".

4. Cemetery records. Over the past 11 years this website has been instrumental in breaking down many researchers' brick walls. In addition, many folks have travelled to cemeteries which are onboard, to personally and physically view the grave markers. Please note that on some cemeteries we have included the contact information for the township, town or village cemetery "record holders".

5. Missing cemeteries. If you don't see a Community and its' cemeteries online...it means we have not photographed the cemeteries in that area. Would you or some of your family or friends be interested in helping out by photographing your local cemeteries....?

FEEDBACK

We are always interested in feedback from Visitors to the website. If you have any questions or suggestions to improve the *Canadian Gravemarker Gallery* please do not hesitate to send your comments, concerns or suggestions to our Contact email address.

CONCLUSION

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