Southern Graves

I will highlight a website I was just introduced to for this Follow Friday . It is the Gravestone Photo Project . Per the homepage, "The Gravestone Photo Project (GPP) is a PHP software project that was designed to provide a web-based archive of aging gravestone images." Actually, the software is no longer available for download. But! Several states (23) did so before it was taken off the market. The following southern states are included, and I encourage you to check them out and add them to your research bookmarks: - Arkansas Gravestones (over 205,200 records) - Florida Gravestones (over 12,300 records) - Louisiana Gravestones (over 1,700 records) - Virginia Gravestones (over 14,900 records)

If you are in any way familiar with Twitter , you are probably aware of "Follow Friday." In case you don't know, that's the day of the week that everyone posts names of people they follow. It is a way of bringing attention to the people that the people you follow, follow. Get it? Think of it as a chance to meet some people you might not have otherwise met. I have decided that, on occasion, I might just very well have my own "Follow Friday." I will share with you some people and blogs I follow. They might be on Twitter, they might not. You might have already heard of them and know how great they are, or you might not. In this inaugural edition, I would like to introduce you to The Daily Undertaker . This blog is described as "a funeral and memorial service journal." The author is Mr. Patrick McNally. In his profile, he states: "Funeral service is an opportunity to serve families and help them through a very difficult time. We need to ...