It has been an exceedingly busy summer for me. I have spent a lot of time on non family history volunteer activities. However, these are activities I really enjoy and would recommend them to all who like genealogy. The major thing's I've been doing:
1. RECORD INDEXING - Even though I am not a Mormon (LDS) I do enjoy indexing records for Family Search. I've especially enjoyed working on the various obituary collections they are doing this year.
2. CEMETERY VOLUNTEER - A local cemetery, Clinton Memory Gardens, has been changed to a not for profit cemetery and renamed to Vansant Road Cemetery. I am currently serving as President of the board of directors. We have a lot of work to do at the cemetery. It was not in good shape. Lot's of grounds cleanup and record maintenance to do. This has been a very time consuming effort.
3. VACATION - My wife and I took her brothers ashes to Arlington National Cemetery for inurnment. This was combined with this years vacation. Spent some time in Virginia and the Carolina's.
I am currently wrapping up a couple of major projects that I've been working on for the cemetery. It is my hope that by early next week I will be able to restart my genealogy research again.
I've decided that once restarted I will focus on missing burial records. The first step will be to check all deceased against Find A Grave. My thinking is that if I can locate the burial place I will know where to search for obituaries and death certificates. For the first pass I will create a Roots Magic report listing all people with a death fact and no burial fact. Once that is worked I will then create a report for all burial facts with no sources. I've not looked at this yet so I'm not sure how to create thsi report.
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