I have received wonderful help through this site for my own family history so, in partnership with Jimf, we are attempting to keep the Cornelian Bay Cemetery requests below 1000!

I frequently create memorials associated with the requested memorial and I'd be very pleased if you asked me to transfer them.

All burial requests we fulfill are firstly identified on a plot map. Where there are complications - an unmarked grave, the requested name doesn't appear on the headstone, the request isn't the name on the plot map - we then check the archived records for more clues to verify the burial. For unmarked graves we are now noting in the caption of the photo the method we have used to best identify the location of the grave. This will often be in its relationship to the closest headstone. Typically I place a flower on the plot to indicate its location.

Some requests we cannot fulfill because they are for cremations at the Cemetery Crematorium but the ashes were collected by the funeral directors and there is no known location in the cemetery. Likewise we can't take photos for the requests where the location is the Crematorium Storeroom.

I use a DSLR camera with a few different lenses and I edit the images at home (usually straightening and cropping) before uploading. Although I still use the phone camera occasionally I found the GPS data from the smartphone camera was not accurate enough so we're no longer adding it. Some of the cremation plaques as extremely shiny and nearly impossible to get a readable image without reflections. I try my best with what I'm faced with on the day.

Thanks for reading this far!
Margaret

I have received wonderful help through this site for my own family history so, in partnership with Jimf, we are attempting to keep the Cornelian Bay Cemetery requests below 1000!

I frequently create memorials associated with the requested memorial and I'd be very pleased if you asked me to transfer them.

All burial requests we fulfill are firstly identified on a plot map. Where there are complications - an unmarked grave, the requested name doesn't appear on the headstone, the request isn't the name on the plot map - we then check the archived records for more clues to verify the burial. For unmarked graves we are now noting in the caption of the photo the method we have used to best identify the location of the grave. This will often be in its relationship to the closest headstone. Typically I place a flower on the plot to indicate its location.

Some requests we cannot fulfill because they are for cremations at the Cemetery Crematorium but the ashes were collected by the funeral directors and there is no known location in the cemetery. Likewise we can't take photos for the requests where the location is the Crematorium Storeroom.

I use a DSLR camera with a few different lenses and I edit the images at home (usually straightening and cropping) before uploading. Although I still use the phone camera occasionally I found the GPS data from the smartphone camera was not accurate enough so we're no longer adding it. Some of the cremation plaques as extremely shiny and nearly impossible to get a readable image without reflections. I try my best with what I'm faced with on the day.

Thanks for reading this far!
Margaret