Southern Graves

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I'm a bit behind in "getting back into the swing of things" around here after all the holiday happenings, so this post is a couple of days late. I want to thank all of you for continuing to follow the Southern Graves blog, and I promise to do my best to hold your interest in 2011. If you are a new follower, WELCOME! Here are some posts that might be new to you: ICYMI -- December 2010 (most viewed posts over the last 30 days) - Undertakers, Coffins, & Furniture - In Hoc Signo Vinces: the Knights Templar - Sentimental Sunday's Baby Knox - Little Fingers, Little Toes - Eugene & Virginia are Watching and Waiting (Tombstone Tuesday) - Symbolism of the Oak Leaf - A Pair of Infant Shoes, Times Two! - Maud (Henry?) Hambrick & the Railroad - Darling Anna (Today's Epitaph) - The Howells of Duluth - Southern Cross of Honor And here are the most viewed posts of 2010 (according to Google Analytics): - Southern Cross ...

Sorry for the delay in posting the latest popular posts. The weather is starting to cool, and I am out and about more than usual in recent months. As a reminder, the most popular posts over the life of this blog (according to Blogger stats) are in the right sidebar. I believe readers have found this feature useful, since some of the most viewed posts over the last thirty days can also be found in that list. I sincerely appreciate all of you looking around for more content. I have almost 500 posts you can wade through. :-) Back to the current "most popular" list: - Undertakers, Coffins, & Furniture - Southern Cross of Honor - FamilySearch Indexing Find for Saturday Soldier: Charles Stevenson - William Weekley Drowned in the San Diego Bay (& My First Experience as a FamilySearch Indexer) - In Hoc Signo Vinces: the Knights Templar - Funeral Mound of the Mississippians - Love, Life, and Truth - More than 100 Photos from Evergreen Cemetery Now Onli...

Becoming a FamilySearch Indexer has been on my "to do" list for quite some time. In the past, there never seemed to be a large enough block of time in one sitting (that I wanted to set aside) to get started. Even though I knew that train of thought was a little selfish, it didn't spur me into action. Then I read Amy Coffin's FamilySearch, Football and Milestones post. Her talk of football (I watch it all weekend, too) and indexing her 11,000th name made me wonder how many names I could have indexed by now if I had started back when the thought first entered my brain. Add that to the scenario of me being off from my real job and having a block of time to work with, and you got a new indexer! Another thing Amy mentioned in her post was, as a genealogist, being attached to records. Wondering what the stories were behind those names. I chuckled when I read that because I know exactly what she means. Even though I am not related to 99.9% of the stories I bring...