{"id":604,"date":"2006-05-15T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T13:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2006-05-15T07:39:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T13:39:02","slug":"grave-task-society-documents-martin-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2006\/05\/15\/grave-task-society-documents-martin-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Grave Task: Society Documents Martin Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Wernlund has an article in the Palm Beach Post (Florida), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/localnews\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2006\/05\/15\/m1b_tccemetery_0515.html\">Grave task: Society documents Martin dead<\/a>, about Walt Bruetsch and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.com\/~flmcgs\/\">Martin County Genealogical Society<\/a>&#8216;s efforts to document cemeteries in the area and make the information available to other genealogists.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> For two years, the retired Pratt &#038; Whitney engineer has led a cemetery research project for the Martin County Genealogical Society, whose goal is to build a database of the deceased \u00e2\u20ac\u201d whether they&#8217;re 6 feet under or have cremated remains \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to help researchers, both local and worldwide, with their family trees.<\/p>\n<p>Bruetsch is passionate about genealogy. He has traced his European ancestors to the 15th century and walked their footsteps from a Montana homestead to the towns of Ramsen and Frutigen in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been researching my own family for years and it&#8217;s such a thrill when you find them and make that connection,&#8221; said Bruetsch, 69, of Stuart. &#8220;You just feel so at peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since 1996, the genealogical society has surveyed 10 of Martin County&#8217;s 14 cemeteries and one of four known columbaria of cremated remains for an online alphabetical listing of some 10,000 dead.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an evolving index of Martin County obituaries dating to 1913.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.com\/~flmcgs\/\">Martin County Genealogical Society<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Wernlund has an article in the Palm Beach Post (Florida), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/localnews\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2006\/05\/15\/m1b_tccemetery_0515.html\">Grave task: Society documents Martin dead<\/a>, about Walt Bruetsch and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.com\/~flmcgs\/\">Martin County Genealogical Society<\/a>&#8216;s efforts to document cemeteries in the area and make the information available to other genealogists.<\/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\/604"}],"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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}