Memorial Inscription Links
Some helpful links
These 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.
Transcribing MIs
Canadian War Dead Photographic Project Canadian War Dead Photographic Project
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
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.