Scanfest is typically held the last Sunday of the month, and the future dates (as they stand at this moment) are actually listed on The February 2011 Organization Checklist at DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog. I would highly recommend taking a look at those lists, even if you have utilized last years' because she revamps them as neeeded,and as we all know, genealogists always need more organizing.
Anyway, Scanfest was fantastic for me on so many levels. I connected with some new people, have a list of more resources to check, got advice for ways to scan different items such as an old journal and suggestions for documents (the consensus is 300 to 600dpi and always in tif, not jpg, by the way), and just the camaraderie of it all kept me at the scanner the whole time. As a result, a mystery in my family was solved.
My paternal grandparents are buried in a little country cemetery as big as most current families house lots called "Little Prarie" in White County, Illinois. There are few markers in this little place in the middle of nowhere. Bbecause the family was so poor they couldn't afford to engrave the stones and instead attached a metal sign to the front of them.
Over time those signs have gone away, and I have not known which stone representated my grandmother and which was my grandfather-until I happened to find a few photographs among a file that I decided at the last minute to scan.
Even as I placed the photo on the scanner I didn't realize that my answer to the question was in front of me until I got out my magnifying lupe to see, but now I can proudly place a photo on this blog for Tombstone Tuesday of my paternal grandparents:
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| Flora Maude McDaniel (left) Clarence Lemuel Tucker Little Prarie Cemetery White County, IL |
4 comments:
I was to busy yak-yak-yaking and missed your find on Sunday during Scanfest.
How wonderful for you!
I just LOVE WAHOOOO moments! Happy dancing time! Congrats.
I must have missed that you made a find, too! I did drop off the last half hour or so, possible I missed it then. Congrats on the find!
Happy dancing is one of my best personal sport events lately, and I hold no personal ill will towards anyone who was so busy talking, scanning or making their own personal discoveries to miss my own! (smile)
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