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In early 1998, Merlin Schuman and I started web
pages on the
Rootsweb Server. Merlin was posting his many census extractions
(now on
this site) and I posted my Photographs of Adamson grave markers that I
had taken
in my travels. These photographs and the thousands of others that
I took
in my travels in 1999 and later years is the genesis of the Adamson
Ancestry
Web Pages. Over the years and with the passing of our friend
Merlin
Shuman in May 2001, other topics have been added. The Name
"Adamson
Ancestry" was started by Judy Dye in 1982 with publication of 14
Volumes
of genealogical research that she had collected or were submitted to
her by
other researchers. The last volume was published in 1998. In May 1999,
with
permission of Judy to use the name, I acquired the Domain Name of
AdamsonAncestry.com.
Merlin and I had been using the Rootsweb server, but did not have any
domain
names as such.
During this period of the life of the internet, searching of Domain
names had
just begun and we saw the need for such naming.
During the years of 1999 through 2006, I traveled many weeks and miles
in
gathering Adamson data and the cemetery photographs. Most of the photos
displayed on this site came from my travels. A few have been
submitted to
me and I show the credit on the appropriate page.
During the past five years the web site Find a Grave has flourished
with
thousands of contributors posting cemetery photographs. The
numbers of
Adamson graves has increased so now, in July, 2011 there is over 6000
Adamson entries. Not all have photographs, but the numbers are
gaining
and I encourage you to utilize this site.
Because of this, I see no need to Travel all over the country and
to expend time and money acquiring photographs to add to this
site. However all photographs currently displayed will
remain.
Two
reasons are: 1. Most of the photos on this site are not on
Findagrave,
but probably will be in the next few years, and 2. With so
many
submitters and a lot of data (not photos) is being posted with specific
knowledge of the cemetery and errors are being created innocently.
So when in doubt, check this site. If you are a contributor to
findagrave
and want to use any photograph from this site, your welcome to do so.
PERMISSION IS GRANTED to use Grave photographs. JAdamson
July 2011.