VermilionCounty.INFO

My future goal: To visit every cemetery in all the surrounding counties and take complete photo records of every stone.

When I visit a cemetery, I try to take many extra pictures to show the area - the "overview" of the cemetery. I also take a GPS reading to get a more exact location of the cemetery. (even though it is sometimes fun trying to read old instruction to a cemetery telling me to go to the 2nd house on a road... where there is now 20 newer houses... or worse, no sign of a house at all anymore.... with a GPS reading, no matter how the landscape changes, it should always point to the cemetery)

ANSWER: This site is a hobby. I did not make do this to make money or anything like that, but hopefully it will help others in their genealogy research. I enjoy getting outside & walking around, so this hobby is also used as a good excuse for me to get out and exercise. This site will also help preserve local cemeteries. With stones slowly getting hard to read because of weather, age, and possible vandals - having a digital image of them today will be helpful if the time comes that the stones are no longer readable.

ANSWER: Well I don't want to see all my pictures scooped up and put on a "paid" site - or any site that viewers have to pay money to have access to them. I also don't want others to take the pictures & call them their own.

QUESTION: Why don't you label each picture with the surname? Why don't you make a master index of all your pictures?

ANSWER: Yes, there are many things that would make this site much better - like labeling each pictures with the surname, or making a master index of all the pictures. But that is stuff that takes time - a lot of time sitting behind a computer. MAYBE SOMEDAY - Currently, if the weather is nice - I'm out taking more pictures. If the weather is not nice, I'm still building this website.

QUESTION: Hey, this site has a transcript of xyz cemetery - why don't you copy it over to your site?

ANSWER: Well I don't just want to copy things to this site without permission. (just like I don't want people taking my pictures for somewhere else without proper credit.) But if I can get permission from the person who made it to also have a copy here, then YES YES YES - Anything we can get on this site to help, they better.

QUESTION: You don't have pictures of xyz cemetery yet, do you want me to take pictures for this site?

ANSWER: No - going out, walking through cemeteries, taking pictures - that is the part of this hobby that I like the best, and plan on taking my own pictures soon enough. NOW - If you have older pictures of something that is no longer there, then YES - I would love to have those pictures on this site. (for example, someone gave me a picture of Niccum Cemetery sign that was destroyed and removed many years ago - long before I started taking pictures - so that sign pictures is a GREAT addition to this site.) So older pictures of things I can no longer take pictures of myself would be very welcomed.

QUESTION: I have this list/picture/information that would be helpful to have on your site - how do I do that?

ANSWER: If it is just information, on the bottom of most pages is a "comments" area - please feel free to add information there. If you have a transcript or picture or something else that you would like to send me, e-mail it to VermilionCounty (at) coan.net - I can read just about any format of data.

QUESTION: I would like to use a picture of a stone on xyz site, can I do that?

ANSWER: Do not edit the picture to remove watermarks - and you can copy the picture for your own use (as long as you don't make money from it, and it is limited - that is don't copy the whole cemetery worth of pictures. If you would like a picture on the FindAGrave website, let me know - I've very active there. If you request a photo, I can fulfill it with the original NON-Watermarked image. If you would like a picture without a watermark for a project you are working on, I'm also happy to provide them for free. Just e-mail me with the information (what cemetery, picture NUMBER - just say the persons name and make me search through all the pictures to find it, and let me know what it is for) VermilionCounty (at) coan.net

ANSWER: Nope. All the "indexes" that I have are up on the website, so if it is not on the website - I haven't made one yet. Try searching FindAGrave site. Try searching this site (Search option on the left).Try contacting the genealogy society. (link in the link area on the left)

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ALLAN WATSON – danville il

May 10, 2013 - 16:27

Subject: cematary

needing to find out who oqns snider cematary in blount township danville il 217/304/4611

beckyb – sidney il

March 01, 2013 - 17:35

Subject:

I was talking about Mt. Hope Cemetery in Sidney Township

Becky B – Sidney IL

March 01, 2013 - 17:33

Subject:

You refer to Sidney as being in Vermilion County. This cemetery as well as the Village of Sidney is in Champaign County.

Larry

May 09, 2012 - 17:43

Subject: Your email address

I'd like to request a handful of pictures of relatives grave markers. My daughter is doing some research (Ancestry.com and others) and I have copied 3-4 of them from the picture links on this site, but they are very low resolution on the site. They are thus very hard to read in detail. I wonder if copies you might send are better resolution (website pics are typically very small - hoping originals are a good deal easier to read). This is all small-scale family personal research.

The other problem is I see COAN.NET all over the place but have yet to find the proper email address to which to send a request with specific cemetary, picture numbers desired.

Thanks for info,
Larry

Harry Seyfert – Kankakee, IL

January 12, 2012 - 00:58

Subject: Your Great Work Here

Hello Michael,
I just read the article from the News-Gazette in our Daily Journal. I told my wife, "I think I know who this man is!" You must Be Henry's or Roger's son. I used to live down Columbia Street from your grand-parents, Thomas and Beverly. I have done some of the same thing, except not to the scale that has captured you! My wife and I have taken photos of some interesting work in cemeteries NE of Watseka (trees with squirrels), and around Kankakee and northern Iroquois Counties. We were visiting Georgetown, KY and took a look at a Negro cemetery there that was in sad disrepair. We did some clean-up without speaking to anyone. The next time we were there, we noticed we must have been an inspiration to others, as it had been mowed, trimmed and several stones were cleaned up considerably.

Keep up the good work,

Harry Seyfert