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Transcribing Monumental Inscriptions |
Memorial Inscription LinksSome helpful linksThese links lead you to some excellent websites on transcribing Monumental Inscriptions. There are also links to building websites. Alan Simpson, a member of the Oxfordshire FHS and
leader of a very active MI team, has a very good website page on transcribing
MIs Alan has also devised a technique for putting the transcribed data onto CD Rom Here he generously shares his ideas. The Oxfordshire Family History Society is here:- The Berkshire Family History Society is here:- Rod Neep makes a very good point on the vandalism
of man in damaging memorials. We should be conserving memorials for
the future. Rod has his website on Transcribing MIs here. For Symbolism on Tombstones http://www.gravehunter.net/symbolism.html How to record a Cemetery:
The same site gives some useful ways of arranging your computer
workspace, with your photographic recording above your spreadsheet. The National Association of
Decorative & Fine Arts Societies, promote the recognition and
preservation of the rich artistic heritage to be found in places of
worship. The Parish Chest is an online market for MIs transcribed by
Family History Societies other than the Oxfordshire FHS Standards for Transcribing Monumental Inscriptions -
Society of Indexers' Genealogical Group (England)
De Montfort
University, Bedford, has a database of over 100,000 names ranging
from 12th to 21st Century. The site is expected to grow steadily
over the next decade, helped by the National Lottery Fund. A website dedicated to the website carvings and design and
embellishments of the Monumental Mason.
This website is that of a paranormal investigator, and has
plenty of good photographs and other help.
Guy Etchells' website is full of links to many other websites on
Graveyards, War Graves and transcribing. John Pepperdine of Norfolk has a good website here. http://www.pepperdineandquipp.info/norfolkepitaphs.htm
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