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Gravematters Transcribing Monume

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. Loss of inscriptions upon memorial stones. Monuments in Church and Chapel yards are too often destined to be removed by man and broken up, thus changing the look of the churchyard forever and losing the genealogical information contained. Family memorials often stand within the same grouping and when moved indiscriminately, lose their original connection to one another. Loss of inscriptions upon memorial stones.

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Abbreviations in the field

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. Abbreviations in the field. Memorial inscriptions commonly used phrases. When recording memorials, in the field it seems only natural to use some sort of shorthand or abbreviation for most commonly used phrases, as you would when faced with the transcription of a large manuscript or will. A large graveyard can take some time to transcribe, and much time can be saved by resorting to some kind of shorthand. Wife of the abo...

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Publishing Monumental Inscription Transcripts

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. Publishing Monumental Inscription Transcripts. Uniformity in the Typed Copy. In order to get some uniformity in typed copy of the monumental inscription transcripts in preparation for publication, it would help if the following format was followed. This is a Title Page’, un-numbered, and can optionally contain the contents of the following two pages. Should give page numbers and contain headings such as:. The finished tr...

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Tips and techniques

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. Combating light and darkness upon stones. Using a cardboard tube as a viewing tube is another way. One end is cut at an angle and you peer down this like a spy-glass. You will have to wiggle the tube around until you get just the right amount of light entering the tube. Two of these photographs clearly illustrate how we overcome the problem of reading an inscription when the gravestone is in deep shadow. If a stone's ins...

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Gravematters Transcribing Monume

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. Preparation for Graveyard Recording. In the preparation of the Graveyard Survey, make sure that some things are completed first by sorting through your check list. Before any work is done. Enlist a team of volunteers;. Decide on your plan of attack. When the grave has been transcribed, the volunteer lies the label face down on the grass, so that the grave inscription is not done twice. At the end of the session don't...

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Books on Transcribing Monumental Inscriptions

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. Books on Transcribing Monumental Inscriptions. Here are some useful books to use when recording Memorial Inscriptions. Burgess, Frederick, 1963 'English Churchyard Memorials' reprint 1979 *- the classic work on this subject. Available at the Westgate Lending Library, please note that this book is held in the stacks. Gooder, Eileen, 'A Latin for Local History' London, Longmans. 1961. Latham R.G. 'Revised medieval ...Steph...

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Memorial Inscriptions Site Map.

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. Memorial Inscriptions Site Map. Epitaph poems and verses. Guide to some incomplete inscriptions. Sad and amusing tales from the graveyard. How to set about publishing. List of reading material. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. A snapshot of an english village.

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Memorial Inscription Links - Some helpful links

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. These links lead you to some excellent websites on transcribing Monumental Inscriptions. There are also links to building websites. Alan Simpson, a member of the Oxfordshire FHS and leader of a very active MI team, has a very good website page on transcribing MIs. Alan has also devised a technique for putting the transcribed data onto CD Rom. Here. He generously shares his ideas. For Symbolism on Tombstones.

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Headstone Epitaphs

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. The words of several epitaphs we have recorded in some Churchyards. It is the Lord let Him do what seemeth Him good. Sad cause of grief for here in dust/ lies a dear friend, good, virtuous, just/great cause of joy, when Christ shall come/ and break up every grave and tomb/ whilst at the mighty Sovereign voice/sinners shall tremble, Saints rejoice. In steadfast hope of that glad day/here lies entombed my weary clay/.

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Memorial Verses - A guide to some incomplete inscriptions, Memorial Verses or Religious text.

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You Are Here Home. Kingston Bagpuize - Village Snapshot. Welsh Chapels and Churches. A guide to some incomplete inscriptions, Memorial Verses or Religious text. Please note that where these are Biblical verses, I have made every effort to trace the source. If you have a verse which is incomplete, maybe some of these will allow you to piece yours together. Who fell asleep in Jesus. Nearer my god to thee. Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28-30. Tender...