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September 2011:
Added several photos and status update to the
Long Hollow Baptist Church page in Jackson Co., WV, thanks to
photos that long time volunteers, Charlotte and Steve Iman sent us this
past year. They also took photos of the church cemetery, and we'll be
adding a page for those in the not too distant future.
Thank you for your patience as we continue
to catch up after our sabbatical in 2010!
June 2011:
We're back! Our building project is complete, and
we're settling into our new home in Mason Co., WV. We'll be gradually
picking up on activity on this web site as the summer progresses. While
we've been on sabbatical, we've received many, many emails and new
photos of cemeteries and markers from volunteers across the country. If
we haven't replied to your email as yet, please be patient with you as
we catch up from past months.
Added links to three cemetery pages to the
Mineral County Cemeterypage, graciously provided by Abe family
researcher, Michael Abe.
December 2010 - March 2011:
Here's wishing you and yours a Happy New Year!
We're on sabbatical until early 2011, as we take care of some personal
matters and finish establishing our permanent residence in West
Virginia. We're still receiving email, but are only replying when we're
able. Thank you for your patience, and we look forward to seeing you
here sometime the first quarter of 2011!
Updates have recently been made to the "Who
Are We?" page
October 2010:
A reminder of how you can help us get the word
out about preserving our historic cemeteries: add the WVCPA
GoodSearch toolbar to your web browser. Once you add the WVCPA toolbar
to Internet Explorer or Firefox, each time you shop at one of the
more than 1,300 participating stores, a percentage of what you spend
will be donated to us at no extra cost to you! You could even save
money as the toolbar provides coupons and deals. The toolbar also has a
search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is
donated to us. No registration is required!
http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/wvcpa-west-virginia-cemetery-preservation-association
September & October 2010:
We are in the process of moving our office from
Colorado to West Virginia, and will only be able to reply
to a few email inquiries in the months of September and October while we
make the move. We will be checking email during much of the time,
however, so while we will likely not reply (at least not for several
weeks), we will appreciate your greetings and words of encouragement.
See you in a few weeks from West Virginia!
July 11, 2010:
Added a page for the
Duff Cemetery in Jackson County, thanks to the photos and
information provided by WVCPA contributor Paula Copen.
Added a page for the
Major Duff Cemetery in Jackson County, thanks to the photos and
information provided by WVCPA contributors Paula Copen and Charlotte and
Steve Iman.
We send our thanks to all who have been praying
for our Navy sailor son, currently in the Naval Hospital in San Diego -
he is improving, slowly but surely, and it is hoped that he will be able
to be discharged to the rehabilitation hospital sometime this month.
This event, in addition to other family-related priorities, have taken
us temporarily away from the cemetery documentation work. These will
continue to be a distraction for us for the next few months, and we
thank you for your patience with our limited email replies and updates
to this website.
Mar. 20, 2010:
Added a page for the
Armentrout Cemetery in Webster County, thanks to the work of
Michael Henline.
Added a page for the
Casto-Hutton Cemetery in Jackson County, thanks to the
photography of our faithful volunteer Charlotte Iman, with the
assistance of her husband Steve. More to come from them, as we get the
pages built!
Added a page for the
Nichel (Nicholl) Cemetery
in Mason County, thanks to research by both WVCPA and Nicholl family
researcher and descendant, Dawn Wood. Also added an old photo of the
original Pine Grove Church of Cologne District in Mason County on the
bottom of the
Pine Grove Cemetery page, thanks to Dawn's sharing it with us.
Our computer system has been down over the
weekend - a nasty attack from a recent 'update' from Microsoft (don't
you just *love* Vista some days?!). After several hours of work in
restoring the system from a prior mirror and off-system file backups,
we're back up and running. So much for a long three-day weekend of
catching up on the 'to-do' list! Such is the life of a humble non-profit
organization that wears all it's own hats...
Jan. 18, 2010:
Added a page for the
Old Glenville Cemetery
on the Glenville State College campus in Gilmer County, thanks to the information and photos provided by WVCPA
volunteers Alice and Karl Click.
Jan. 1, 2010:
Added a page for the Boggess Cemetery
at Goldtown in Jackson County (sometimes referred to as the Hutson
Boggess Cemetery), thanks to the information and photos provided by
WVCPA volunteers Charlotte and Steve Iman.
Dec. 30, 2009:
If the WVCPA web site is of value
to you, and if you have never made a contribution or have not done so in
a long time, we ask for your help, however modest, in supporting the
site's existence. Readership has expanded dramatically, with nearly
3,000 visits, over 9,000 page views, and over 2,000 individual readers
in November 2009 alone. Donations
will be deeply appreciated.
Remember, too, as we enter 2010
to continue make use of the
GoodSearch
search engine at
www.goodsearch.com,
specifying "WVCPA" as your designated charity. GoodSearch
is a search engine with a unique social mission. It’s powered by
Yahoo, so you get the same great search results. GoodSearch donates
50% of their advertising revenue to the nonprofits and schools
selected by their users. This past week, WVCPA received a check
for $77.59 from GoodSearch as a direct result of your use of the
search engine in 2009! Now you, our supporters, can make a
difference in the work of WVCPA, or any nonprofit charity of their
choice that is included among the registered organizations on the
GoodSearch site, simply by changing the way they search the
Internet! Anytime anyone uses the GoodSearch site to search on the Internet
and specifies WVCPA as their favorite charity, GoodSearch will set
aside a portion of their revenue to contribute WVCPA (an average of
$.013 per search the past two years). Over the years, many of you
have expressed the desire to donate to WVCPA, but have not had the
means - now you can without it costing you a penny! Check out
GoodSearch for details, and tell your friends and family so they can
help contribute as well!
Happy New Year!
As the old year comes to a close, and the New Year
opens up before us, Joel and I want to wish WVCPA's faithful viewers,
and especially our dedicated volunteers and contributors from across the
country, a very Blessed New Year. We look forward to continue working
with you in 2010 to rescue the precious old burial grounds of West
Virginia. Thank you for your loyalty to us and to the mission of the
West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association!
Dec. 29, 2009:
Follow us now on facebook -
if you have a facebook account (they're free, by the way), you can
follow our activities on this popular social-networking site. We're
taking a tentative leap into this 'modern technology', to explore the
possibilities of how we can provide a more interactive forum for our
regular viewers to interact both with us here at WVCPA, but also with
one another through Discussions on our facebook site. Visit us on
facebook today and become a fan!
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