{"id":592,"date":"2006-05-04T05:37:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2006-05-03T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T03:38:09","slug":"historical-projects-puts-tombstones-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2006\/05\/04\/historical-projects-puts-tombstones-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Projects Puts Tombstones in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Wolfe, a reporter for 9News (Denver, CO), has written an article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&#038;IKOBJECTID=e4b0e755-0abe-421a-0198-abf297178b69&#038;TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf\">Historical projects puts tombstones in focus<\/a>, about the local chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dar.org\/\">Daughters of the American Revolution<\/a> working on digitally documenting all of the tombstones in Weld County.  They then place the images\/information online, for other genealogists to access.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of respect,&#8221; said Chapter Regent Donna Hoffman.  &#8220;I think we have to know our history.  We have to respect the people who went before us.  These people are the pioneers of Greeley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having the tombstone pictures available online should be a big help to people researching their family histories.  &#8220;Genealogy has become a kind of fast and furious growing hobby of people because the Internet has made it so easy to do research,&#8221; said D.A.R member Chris Ruth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can view their work at <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotdreams.us\/cemeteries\/\">PatriotDreams.us\/Cemeteries<\/a>.  It&#8217;s very impressive &#8211; unlike many similar projects, you can actually see a picture of the tombstone itself, and they are organized and fairly easy to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Wolfe, a reporter for 9News (Denver, CO), has written an article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&#038;IKOBJECTID=e4b0e755-0abe-421a-0198-abf297178b69&#038;TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf\">Historical projects puts tombstones in focus<\/a>, about the local chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dar.org\/\">Daughters of the American Revolution<\/a> working on digitally documenting all of the tombstones in Weld County.  They then place the images\/information online, for other genealogists to access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,16,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}