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As I update the website, I try to put what I have added to the main page. Well of course after awhile, that starts to add up. But I like to keep track of when I added stuff to this site, so every once and awhile I will clean up the main page - and move the "whats new" stuff to this archive page.
**** Note, for the last couple of updates, the embeded Google maps are not showing up correctly (forbidden error) - I still can't figure out why it is doing this (old ones still working), but it's an error on my side and hopefully I wll figure it out soon.
October 16, 2008 - OK, I've added a lot of things to the site..... 6,125 more picture for a TOTAL of 69,221 pictures total. The Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:
If you have ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION about any of the cemeteries - especially the lost, destroyed, and unknown cemeteries - PLEASE visit the cemetery page and leave a comment at the bottom of those pages - so others who are looking for information about these cemeteries can find it. (AND PLEASE if you have additional instructions on how to find a cemetery... or in some cases the stones if they have been moved from the original location, I would love to know.) For example - Newell Cemetery was destroyed in 1974 - it was just north of the airport, but does anyone know the EXACT location? Please let me know if you do. ACTUALLY - If you have ANY INFORMATION about ANY of the cemeteries I have listed here - even little details which you might have, PLEASE visit the cemetery page and leave a comment - others who are researching the cemetery might find any little detail helpful in their searches. October 8, 2008 - I have added 3 more cemetery - and added updated photo's for 2 more cemetery, for a total of 6,034 new pictures [TOTAL pictures: 63,096] Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:
September 30, 2008 - I only added 1 cemetery today: Springhill Cemetery - 25,173 pictures for this cemetery alone! [total pictures: 57,062] I also added 2 more things to the Download page - Original scanned plot maps of Springhill Cemetery & BRAND NEW plot maps of Springhill Cemetery Also updated the Books Page with some links to Google Books. September 25, 2008 - I have added 21 more cemeteries, with 5560 pictures. Some of the smaller & harder to get to cemeteries in this update use older pictures I took back in 2006 - which at that time I was not taking as good of quality of pictures, and I do plan on revisiting those cemeteries at some point to get new updated photos of all the stones. (not all of the 2006 photo's were less quality - just some.) [TOTAL pictures: 31,889] Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:
September 19, 2008 - I did not add any cemeteries today. But I did add a tips page, an updated picture use page, and the most cool thing - the Books page. On the books page, I have already added 6 books (5 on Vermilion County Illinois and 1 for Champaign County). These are older books - from the last 1800's to early 1900's - with biographies of the people who were in this county, along with other stories and general information about the history of these counties. [I enjoy them because they do talk about some of the older cemeteries - but I know others will enjoy them if you are looking for someone that has a biography written about them.] I've also updated a few spelling mistakes and minor things like that. September 16, 2008 - I have added 6 more cemeteries - and 524 more pictures for those cemetery [TOTAL new pictures: 26,329]. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:
September 10, 2008 - I have added 5 more cemeteries - and 1,382 more pictures for those cemeteries [TOTAL new pictures: 25,805]. 4 of these cemeteries I have 2 different sents of photo's for each, for different times that I visited. 2 of them I have pictures from before & after vandalism struck the cemetery. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:
September 4, 2008 - I have added 2 more cemeteries - and 6,705 more pictures for those cemeteries [TOTAL new pictures: 24,423]. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added: September 2, 2008 - I have added 6 more cemeteries - and 6,002 more pictures for those cemeteries [TOTAL new pictures: 17,718]. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added: As I get time, I will add more to this site - so keep visiting and I will keep adding the Vermilion County Cemeteries until they are all done.... and then start on the next county. August 19, 2008 - I have added 4 more cemeteries - but they are lost or destroyed cemeteries with no pictures but included some aerial photo's from 1940 for a couple of them which help show the possible location for them. So if you have more information about any of these, PLEASE visit the page and leave a comment at the bottom of the page. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:
August 18, 2008 - I have added 10 more cemeteries - and 6,616 more pictures for those cemeteries [TOTAL: 11,716 pictures]. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:
I have complete photo records from over 80 cemeteries in this county - so give me some time and I will slowly get them all up.. August 14, 2008 - Site is now PUBLIC. There is still a lot of work to be done. For now, I'm working on VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS - and as of today, I have 7 cemeteries pages added - along with 5,100 new photo's from those 7 cemeteries (Pictures of EVERY stone in each of them) It takes me a little bit of time to add each cemetery, but I will continue to add them until I have all of Vermilion County Illinois done - and then I will start to do the other counties. August 1, 2008 - New site is being worked on, not "public" yet. Things you will find::
I'm still in the process of putting things out on this site - so give me a little bit of time and I will be adding everything soon. PLEASE NOTE: Vermilion County Illinois is the only section which really has anything right now. After I get all that information up, I will try to expand the other counties mentioned. To look at a page which already has the 1,500+ pictures up, along with a list of who is buried there along with what picture # the stone is - Check out Rose Cemetery |
November 23, 2008 - I have added 8 more cemetery, and........ I now have over 100,000 pictures on the site!!!!! [added 16,369 pictures for total: 107,937] Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:
October 31, 2008 - Happy Holloween. I have added a lot to the site - pictures for 18 cemeteries - 22,347 more pictures [TOTAL pictures: 91,568]. 
I just found out that there is a possibility that one or more of my relatives may have been buried in Newell Cemetery. Ambrose Phelps Andrews married Elizabeth Newell who was born in Harrison County, KY, the daughter of "Squire" Newell and Winnifred Bridges. I believe both families moved to Vermilion County. Ambrose and Elizabeth are buried at the Walnut Corners Cemetery southeast of Bismarck. Does anyone have any more information on them?
Many tombstones are unreadable when photographed, but can be read or rubbed to get the names and dates. Your pictures that you can't read would be more helpful if the names and dates were tagged to them. I grew up in Vermilion Co,IL and know many of the cemeteries of Vermilion Co,IL and Vermillion Co,IN and have taken many cemetery photos of cemeteries in the area. I applaud your efforts.
Old Hopewell Cemetery near Quaker,Vermillion,IN is hard to find, but I took pictures and my friend posted them on find-a-grave.com for anyone who didn't know it existed.