Talk:Canadian Headstones

March 2011

[Note: user Clarksonon was adding WikiProject banner] --Clarksonon (talk) 13:59, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Trying to Clarify after edit

I feel that the amount of information that was removed in the edit of the first few paragraphs now leaves this article very vague. The "the" in the first sentence makes no sense with the rest of the sentence removed. Am I allowed to put something back in? How can I rewrite it from the following so that it does not sound like advertising?

of our ancestors. As decades pass, it is becoming harder - if not impossible - to read the inscriptions these stones originally contained. By archiving the images and transcriptions, these important records are saved. Researchers can use this valuable resource which provides the opportunity to input photos and transcripts to an online database of gravestones and also allows free searching of this database. On the Canadian Headstones website you can search for names, see photos of a tombstone and read the full transcript as well - all in one place. You can search by name within a province, county or cemetery to be able to find a grave. You can also choose to browse a particular cemetery.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. Clarksonon (talk) 01:24, 10 March 2011 (UTC)(talk) 00:32, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

It sounds like an ad and alot is not about the company its self by y companies are doing this in general - Just state the facts that can be references about the company. Would be better to talk about the history "How" it got to were it is today not y it was formed - as many others have done - its not specific - its filler. How many editors are registered - were does the finding come from - is there editorial control? - talk about those kinds of things. Moxy (talk) 03:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks so much. That is a big help. I will get going on that. Should I put my ideas here in the talk area to be looked at before I edit the article? Clarksonon (talk) 13:59, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

how does this sound? I have redone the first paragraph & made a few small changes to the other paragraphs

Canadian Headstones is a project to capture digital images and the complete transcription of cemetery stones. It is a web-based Canadian Non-Profit Corporation which is run completely by volunteers.

History

Canadian Headstones is a Canadian Non-Profit Corporation which was started by Jim McKane in July 2009. Jim has been involved in genealogy since the mid 1970s. As well as other major genealogical efforts, Jim spearheaded the first computerized version of the 1871 Heads of Households Ontario Census which is now online. In 2010 Canadian Headstones became a non-profit corporation to protect the future of the project.

The bylaws of Canadian Headstones state that the purpose of the corporation is: the corporation shall gather, archive, publish and disseminate genealogical, historical data or other records of interest to family historians, genealogists or other researchers.[1]

Use

Canadian Headstones relies on volunteers to upload photos. The site steps a contributor through uploading a photo, editing it, choosing a county and cemetery, entering the names and inscription.[2] It is then checked by a Coordinator who will assist the contributor to fix any problems. The volunteers can upload photos to any of the Canadian provinces or territories, Canadian Armed Forces cemeteries in various countries.

In the first 20 months 176,000 indexed records were submitted to the site.

thanks Clarksonon (talk) 15:23, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

a totally new rewrite

i have added to the first paragraph & fleshed out the history section.

Canadian Headstones is a project to capture digital images and the complete transcription of cemetery stones. It is a web-based Canadian Non-Profit Corporation which is run completely by volunteers.

History

Jim McKane began his genealogical quest in the early 1970s when his father convinced him to become the keeper of the pedigree for his Lyons Clan Reunion in Chinguacousy Township, Peel County, Ontario. In April 2009, while volunteering as assistant webmaster of a website, he found a website archiving headstones for those who were born in Co. Tyrone, Ireland, the home of his ancestors.

Realizing the value of the information to genealogists and family historians, he set out to research the possibility of creating an archive for Canadian headstones. While there were a number of websites storing photos of gravestones, none also included the inscriptions on the gravestones. The majority of existing sites also had either no search engine feature or very poorly constructed search features. The result was the creation on 1st July 2009 of CanadianHeadstones.com

The bylaws of Canadian Headstones state that the purpose of the corporation is: the corporation shall gather, archive, publish and disseminate genealogical, historical data or other records of interest to family historians, genealogists or other researchers.

Use

Canadian Headstones relies on volunteers to upload photos. The site steps a contributor through uploading a photo, editing it, choosing a county and cemetery, entering the names and inscription.[2] It is then checked by a Coordinator who assists the contributor to fix any problems.

In the first 20 months CanadianHeadstones.com had 182,000 records submitted to the site.

Clarksonon (talk) 01:43, 12 March 2011 (UTC)