Comments on: Paying Attention to your Surroundings http://www.moore-mays.org/blog/2010/10/paying-attention-to-your-surroundings/ the moore-mays.org blog Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The Misadventures of a Genealogist » Blog Archive » Where is my Genealogy sponsor? http://www.moore-mays.org/blog/2010/10/paying-attention-to-your-surroundings/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 The Misadventures of a Genealogist » Blog Archive » Where is my Genealogy sponsor? Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:13:08 +0000 http://www.moore-mays.org/blog/?p=594#comment-1143 [...] Almost a year ago (Yikes!), I posted about a bad habit of mine. I’ve tried my hardest to beat this habit, but I learned today that it’s still there. I’m admitting it for the second time. I sometimes have a hard time checking the whole page of a source. There I’ve said it out loud. I’ve admitted it to the internet masses. I have learned to check the whole precinct of a census, however this hasn’t bled over into the other sources I use. Which are a lot. [...]

]]> By: Russ http://www.moore-mays.org/blog/2010/10/paying-attention-to-your-surroundings/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Russ Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:29:47 +0000 http://www.moore-mays.org/blog/?p=594#comment-119 Kathleen,

You bring up a great point, use that menu.

When I am searching for a name, not quite sure of the Cemetery, I do the search from the State, then County and take a look at the results, then add the Surname. This was especially helpful when the Surname was in this specific county in the early 1800′s. Found them in 3 of the 169 Cemeteries.

I also do some research before going to a cemetery to take pictures for a Request. Look who else is in the Cemetery with that Surname, check out a female birth and married surname.

When trying to locate a plot for a Photo Request, I look at the pictures of any of the headstones for any of those surname “hits” at the cemetery. BUT, I look at the background of any of those headstones to see if there is something in the background that will help me locate the specific headstone I am looking for.

I do try to take and post more than one photo, one for the detail and one for the background.

Find-A-Grave is a great resource.

Thank you,

Russ

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