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

We reiterate, 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. Effective 1 Oct 2011, we have merged 150 complete cemeteries including approximately 90,000 grave marker photos. This represents 50% of Scott's website.

REMINDERS

1. If you know the Region in Canada where your ancestors are buried, please click the new "REGIONAL SEARCH ENGINES" button located on the Main Page and then 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 LAST MONTH

1. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, Ashton Anglican Cemetery

2. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, Munster Union Cemetery

3. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, St. Clare's RC Cemetery

4. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, Stittsville United Cemetery

5. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, St. John's Anglican Cemetery

6. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Cemetery

7. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, St. Paul's United Cemetery

8. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, St. Philips RC Cemetery

9. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Goulbourn Twp, St. Thomas Anglican Cemetery

10 Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Nepean Twp, Bells Corners Union Cemetery

11. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Nepean Twp, Merivale Group of Cemeteries

12. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Nepean Twp, St. Patrick's RC Cemetery

13. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Huntley Twp, Christ Church Anglican Cemetery

14. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Huntley Twp, Huntley United Cemetery

15. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Kanata, Maple Grove Cemetery

16. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, March Twp, St. Isidore RC Cemetery

17. Ontario, Ottawa West Region, Rideau Twp, Christ Church Anglican Cemetery

18. Quebec, Gatineau County, LaPeche Twp, Ste. Cecile de LaPeche Cemetery

19. Quebec, Gatineau County, Aylmer, Bellevue Cemetery

20. Quebec, Gatineau County, Aylmer, Mountain View Pink Cemetery

21. Quebec, Gatineau County, Aylmer, Edey Cemetery

22. Quebec, Gatineau County, Aylmer, St. Paul's RC Cemetery

23. Quebec, Gatineau County, Buckingham, Pioneer Cemetery

24. Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau City, West Templeton Cemetery

25. Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau City, East Templeton Cemetery

26. Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau City, Dunning, Dunning Cemetery

27. Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau City, Quinnville, St. Columban Cemetery

28. Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau City, St. Francois de Sales

29. Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau City, St. Alexandre Cemetery

30. Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau City, St. Rose de Lima Cemetery

31. Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau City, St. Jean Marie Vianney

32. Quebec, Gatineau County, Hull City, Notre Dame Cemetery (33 Sections)

33. Quebec, Gatineau County, Hull City, St. James Cemetery

34. Quebec, Gatineau County, Hull City, St. Redempteur 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 Re-photographed. Awaiting processing.

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.

11. Newfoundland and Labrador, Straight Shore, Lumsden area cemeteries being processed.

OVERVIEW PROGRESS REPORT

1. Eastern 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 Canadian Gravemarker Gallery is the oldest and largest website displaying grave marker photographs in Canada. This non-sponsored and free-access National Site is proud to announce that there are almost 1,200 cemeteries completely photographed and onboard, amounting to over 500,000 searchable photographs. There have been over 667,000 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 delivered to your Inbox. 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.