Too many books!

This is what too many books looks like. These are two banker boxes filled with over 160 spiral notebooks that have cemetery information written in them. The information was gathered from New Mexico genealogy books in the library. The Tombstone Transcription group has written in these notebooks since 2005 and until now, the books have sat.....and sat.....and sat. Just waiting for someone to get the information into the computer.

And someone came!! As I wrote before, last September many 'angels' came to volunteer hours and hours of typing information into the computer. They have entered over 100 notebooks full of 'stuff'. And I mean lots of STUFF. Some of the things they have transcribed are:

*1860 death records of Lincoln county (home of the famous Pat Garrett)

*1890 death records of Carrizozo county
*Over 670 different cemeteries in the state covering 26 of the 33 counties
*Bernalillo county death records from 1900-1940 (over 10,000 names)
*Obituary indexes from 1904-1921
*Archdiocesan records 1860-1890
*Histories of families in seven different county (Historical Records)
*Immigration and death records into the state
*Deaths in five different Union forts in the state
And I could go on and on. So many different records.

But these 'angels' are all troopers. They have kept at this for 11 months and the two boxes of 'have to get done someday' has dwindled down to 1/2 of a box of 'I can see the end!' I am so proud of these dedicated ladies. They have actually almost worked themselves out of a job!