Volunteering for Worthwhile Genealogical Projects

The Iowa Gravestone Photo Project is an awesome, awesome thing! I may be a bit biased, however. It turns out that some kind volunteer has photographed every tombstone in Bethel Cemetery outside of Logan. This cemetery is the final resting place of over four generations of McKeans. Go ahead - do a search for McKean in Harrison County!

These are the kinds of projects that everyone who is passionate about genealogy should be involved in! Think of how great it would be if you could find a photograph of almost any tombstone you were looking for. There’s also projects like Family Old Photos and others. All we need are volunteers to take photographs or scan old photographs or transcribe old documents, and so on.

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