TX-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION
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"Our Loose Ends" Genealogy Column
by Lynna Kay Shuffield
Houston, Texas

Welcome to the TX-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION mailing list hosted by "Our Loose Ends" genealogy column written by Lynna Kay Shuffield and published in the Taylor Daily Press newspaper in Taylor, Williamson County, Texas and the Cameron Herald newspaper in Cameron, Milam County, Texas.

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please contact me via e-mail to discuss details. It is my goal to provide you with a great source for genealogical information, so continue to visit this site on a regular basis and watch it grow. I will be glad to make suggestions to help you with your research, but unfortunately, I will be unable to personally assist with the research.

The purpose of the TX-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION mailing list and its webpage is to facilitate the preservation of historic Texas cemeteries. By open discussion and exchange of ideas, techniques, and information we can work together in the separate regions of Texas to save our cemeteries.

This list is open to researchers, historians, genealogists and anyone needing help with how to survey, index, clean up, and/or preserve cemeteries. If you need help, ask questions and professionally respond with information and suggestions.

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Nationwide
• The Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) - The AGS "was founded in 1977 for the purpose of furthering the study and preservation of gravestones. AGS is an international organization with an interest in gravemarkers of all periods."
• Saving Graves - is strongly committed to the protection of human burial sites from unauthorized and unwarranted disturbance, by man or nature.
• US Cemetery Records Online
• Jewish Cemeteries - North American Index
• Jewish Funeral, Burial, and Mourning Customs
• US African American Cemeteries Online
• USGS Geographic Names Information System - This search engine will allow you to search for cemeteries in a particular county and it will give you the longitude/latitude.

TEXAS
• Texas Historic Cemetery Designation by the Texas Historical Commission
• Texas Tombstone Transcription Project
• Texas Cemetery & Tombstone Photograph Project
• Texas Cemetery Records Online
• Texas African American Cemeteries Online
• Save Texas Cemeteries - This organization was founded in November 1994 as a statewide, educational organization to help save all cemeteries in the state of Texas from destruction.
• Texas Jewish Cemeteries (by City)

Louisiana
• Save Our Cemeteries (SOC) - The SOC "is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the historic cemeteries of Louisiana, and to fostering a public appreciation of the architectural and cultural value of these historic cemeteries."