In a previous post I mentioned that some basic research went into the set up of this blog and how to actually proceed with a cemetery transcription. Some things that other people didn't mention/cover because they are already familiar with the entire process have presented some learning curves for me thought. Things that I thought I'd touch on.
First of all when photographing grave markers -- make sure to keep your toes out of the picture! Something I fell 'afoot' of on my first photo expedition and transcribing trip. It also gave me a few chuckles when I spotted the tip of a shoe on a photograph taken on a Boy Scout group for an Eagle Badge project on Names in Stone, an interactive cemetery on the web. (The story and project can be found in the site's 'News Room' tab.)
Multiple trips to Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery is also allowing me to work out the kinks in my transcribing process. I've basically worked it out to: paper form for recording the grave marker inscriptions, systematic photo taking (grave site, "footer" if inscribed as wolf stones are popular markers in my area, headstone), and grid paper to mark down grave site locations for mapping to show spatial relation.
So while the transcriptions and maps are coming along nicely on my computer, I'm still not to sure how to post all the gathered data on the blog. (Besides linking to my forthcoming Flickr collection.) Turning the "Tombstone Tuesday" meme into a regular method of posting all grave markers and inscriptions is a possibility, but there are not enough Tuesdays in a year for all the markers which means I'd be posting far into the future.
Maybe by making a "Tombstone Thursday" meme I'd get more up quicker? Unless of course I want to keep it weekly so that this blog is active far into the future. Decisions, decisions, decisions. Your thoughts?
