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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

For Symbolism on Tombstones

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.