November 23, 2008 - I have added 8 more cemetery, and........ I now have over 100,000 pictures on the site!!!!! [added 16,369 pictures for total: 107,937] Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Oakridge Cemetery, Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Rankin Union Cemetery, Stearns Cemetery, Vermilion Grove Cemetery, Whitlock Cemetery, and Woodlawn Cemetery

**** Note, for the last couple of updates, the embeded Google maps are not showing up correctly (forbidden error) - I still can't figure out why it is doing this (old ones still working), but it's an error on my side and hopefully I wll figure it out soon.

October 31, 2008 - Happy Holloween. I have added a lot to the site - pictures for 18 cemeteries - 22,347 more pictures [TOTAL pictures: 91,568].

• Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added: Crown Hill Cemetery, Greenview Cemetery, Hebron Newtown Cemetery, Jones Grove Cemetery, Lynch Cemetery, Michael Cemetery, Milner Cemetery, Mount Pisgah Cemetery, Mount Vernon Cemetery, Oakwood Cemetery, Pilot Grove Cemetery, Potomac Cemetery, Red Top Cemetery, Rossville Cemetery, Sandusky (Westville) Cemetery, Stump Cemetery, Wallace Chapel Cemetery, & Walnut Corner Cemetery
• Other Updates: Updated the left menu some, put part of it in grey which does not have much information yet (Someday soon I hope to starting adding to it, but I notice some are visiting it now so I put in in grey right now.) Also added the "quick list" & "map" under Vermilion - which isn't up yet, but just getting ready.

October 16, 2008 - OK, I've added a lot of things to the site..... 6,125 more picture for a TOTAL of 69,221 pictures total. The Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Cemeteries with pictures: Oakhill Cemetery, Pate Cemetery, Songer Cemetery, Westville Lithuanian Cemetery, and Yankee Point Cemetery.
• Updated pictures for cemetery: Lorrence Pioneer Cemetery
• Can't get to cemeteries: Forse Cemetery, Langley Cemetery, Mcgee Cemetery, Old Collison Cemetery, Pentecost Cemetery, and Sandusky (Indianola) Cemetery
• Can't find cemeteries: Brittingham Family Plot, Kights Family Plot, Watson Cemetery, and Workhiser Cemetery
• Moved cemeteries: Denmark Cemetery, Old Danville Cemetery, Price Cemetery, and Swain Cemetery
• Destroyed cemeteries: Allen Family Plot, Jones Family Plot, Newell Cemetery, and Ruckman Cemetery
• Unknown cemeteries: Adams Family Plot, Bluegrass Cemetery, Fielder Cemetery, Kerby Family Plot, Larson Cemetery, Manion Family Plot, Martin Family Plot, Middlefork Cemetery, Old Davis Cemetery, Oliphant Cemetery, and Watson Family Plot

If you have ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION about any of the cemeteries - especially the lost, destroyed, and unknown cemeteries - PLEASE visit the cemetery page and leave a comment at the bottom of those pages - so others who are looking for information about these cemeteries can find it. (AND PLEASE if you have additional instructions on how to find a cemetery... or in some cases the stones if they have been moved from the original location, I would love to know.)

For example - Newell Cemetery was destroyed in 1974 - it was just north of the airport, but does anyone know the EXACT location? Please let me know if you do.

ACTUALLY - If you have ANY INFORMATION about ANY of the cemeteries I have listed here - even little details which you might have, PLEASE visit the cemetery page and leave a comment - others who are researching the cemetery might find any little detail helpful in their searches.

October 8, 2008 - I have added 3 more cemetery - and added updated photo's for 2 more cemetery, for a total of 6,034 new pictures [TOTAL pictures: 63,096] Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Gordon Cemetery, Greenwood Cemetery, and Lebanon Cemetery. Added new pictures to Johnson Hill Cemetery & Michael-Rutledge Cemetery.

September 30, 2008 - I only added 1 cemetery today: Springhill Cemetery - 25,173 pictures for this cemetery alone! [total pictures: 57,062]

I also added 2 more things to the Download page - Original scanned plot maps of Springhill Cemetery & BRAND NEW plot maps of Springhill Cemetery

Also updated the Books Page with some links to Google Books.

September 25, 2008 - I have added 21 more cemeteries, with 5560 pictures. Some of the smaller & harder to get to cemeteries in this update use older pictures I took back in 2006 - which at that time I was not taking as good of quality of pictures, and I do plan on revisiting those cemeteries at some point to get new updated photos of all the stones. (not all of the 2006 photo's were less quality - just some.) [TOTAL pictures: 31,889] Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Caraway Family Plot, Cox Cemetery, Dukes Cemetery, Hickman Cemetery, Huffman Cemetery, Humrick Cemetery, Ingersoll Cemetery, Johnsonville Cemetery, Lockett Cemetery, Lorrence Pioneer Cemetery, Mann's Chapel Cemetery, McBride Family Plot, McKendree Cemetery, Miller Cemetery, Niccum Cemetery, Nicholson Cemetery, Porter Cemetery, Searle Cemetery, Stunkard Cemetery, Thurman Cemetery, and Weaver Cemetery

September 19, 2008 - I did not add any cemeteries today. But I did add a tips page, an updated picture use page, and the most cool thing - the Books page. On the books page, I have already added 6 books (5 on Vermilion County Illinois and 1 for Champaign County). These are older books - from the last 1800's to early 1900's - with biographies of the people who were in this county, along with other stories and general information about the history of these counties. [I enjoy them because they do talk about some of the older cemeteries - but I know others will enjoy them if you are looking for someone that has a biography written about them.] I've also updated a few spelling mistakes and minor things like that.

September 16, 2008 - I have added 6 more cemeteries - and 524 more pictures for those cemetery [TOTAL new pictures: 26,329]. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Grimes Cemetery, Higginsville Cemetery, Sharon Cemetery, Shock Cemetery, Spicer Cemetery, and Wright-Sodowsky Cemetery

September 10, 2008 - I have added 5 more cemeteries - and 1,382 more pictures for those cemeteries [TOTAL new pictures: 25,805]. 4 of these cemeteries I have 2 different sents of photo's for each, for different times that I visited. 2 of them I have pictures from before & after vandalism struck the cemetery. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Johnson Hill Cemetery, Leonard Cemetery, Mann's Family Plot, Michael-Rutledge Cemetery, and Pellville Cemetery

September 4, 2008 - I have added 2 more cemeteries - and 6,705 more pictures for those cemeteries [TOTAL new pictures: 24,423]. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Forest Park Cemetery and Georgetown Cemetery

September 2, 2008 - I have added 6 more cemeteries - and 6,002 more pictures for those cemeteries [TOTAL new pictures: 17,718]. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Atherton, Fairchild, Fairview, Farmers Chapel, Old Atherton, and Sanhill

As I get time, I will add more to this site - so keep visiting and I will keep adding the Vermilion County Cemeteries until they are all done.... and then start on the next county.

August 19, 2008 - I have added 4 more cemeteries - but they are lost or destroyed cemeteries with no pictures but included some aerial photo's from 1940 for a couple of them which help show the possible location for them. So if you have more information about any of these, PLEASE visit the page and leave a comment at the bottom of the page. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Williams-Fugate, Woolverton, Yount, and an "Unknown" possible cemetery.

August 18, 2008 - I have added 10 more cemeteries - and 6,616 more pictures for those cemeteries [TOTAL: 11,716 pictures]. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Allhands, Bock, Bodkin, County Poor Farm, Davis, Dodson & Dodson Annex, Dougherty, East Lynn, Elwood Friends, and Embury

I have complete photo records from over 80 cemeteries in this county - so give me some time and I will slowly get them all up..

August 14, 2008 - Site is now PUBLIC. There is still a lot of work to be done. For now, I'm working on VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS - and as of today, I have 7 cemeteries pages added - along with 5,100 new photo's from those 7 cemeteries (Pictures of EVERY stone in each of them)

• Bethel (Blount), Bethel (Love), Bethel (Ross), Old Partlow, Partlow, Rose, and Underwood

It takes me a little bit of time to add each cemetery, but I will continue to add them until I have all of Vermilion County Illinois done - and then I will start to do the other counties.

August 1, 2008 - New site is being worked on, not "public" yet. Things you will find::

• Each Cemetery now has it's own page - allowing much more detail about each cemetery
• Many pages now have "Comments" area near bottom - have some more information about a cemetery - ADD IT & allow others to see your comments
• MORE PICTURES - I have taken pictures of EVERY stone in MANY cemeteries, and I'm in the process of putting them out on this site.

I'm still in the process of putting things out on this site - so give me a little bit of time and I will be adding everything soon. PLEASE NOTE: Vermilion County Illinois is the only section which really has anything right now. After I get all that information up, I will try to expand the other counties mentioned. To look at a page which already has the 1,500+ pictures up, along with a list of who is buried there along with what picture # the stone is - Check out Rose Cemetery