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| Jack Davison (#47534141)
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My little brother Hank Davison turned me on to this. He has created virtual cemeteries of our families linked child to parent all the way back to the 17th century immigrants and earlier forebears. Compared to him I am a piker or dabbler. I create memorials for classmates, shipmates, and squadron mates when I find one is needed and I have the information.
In the course of my browsing I have learned that some of my ancestors are in good company; My thrice great-grandfather is in Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, near B.Franklin, Printer, and Commodore William Bainbridge of the early days of the U. S. Navy . His son, my twice great-grandfather, is in Laurel Hill Cemetery, in the same section as Captain isaac Hull of the frigate Constitution 44, "Old Ironsides."
I am working on virtual cemeteries for my ship and squadron mates, USNA 1953 classmates, and noted parishioners and past rectors of my church, where I am the titular historian by virtue of no greater qualification than that of having been a member for over 60 years. In both of these projects I am helped greatly by the local library's on line historical resources and the VA nationwide burial site locator, for veterans buried in national cemeteries since 1997. Since I am wheelchair and home bound by a stroke I am not able to collect actual GPS information on grave sites but would appreciate it if suitably equipped volunteers who visit an actual site would record the coordinates. That would then of course be redundant, as I suppose that a main purpose is to assist photo volunteers in fulfilling photo requests. Many major cemeteries provide that information for their grave sites when accessed using Google maps with the cemetery address.
I am titular historian of St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg, VA by virtue of no greater qualification than that of having been a member since 1947. I that capacity I have copy of the "inventory" of burials in the St. James cemetery prepare in July, 2011 as an MS excel worksheet by the cemetery committee, and which includes citations in the parishregister where such exist. I will provide a copy of this "inventory to any FAG contributor who requests it. | |
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