60,000 Acadian Tombstone Photos are now Online

I am always amazed at the efforts of volunteers who amass huge collections of transcriptions or photographs of genealogy resources. I recently encountered a web site with more than 60,000 photographs of tombstones in New Brunswick, Canada. Most of the photographs are of Acadian cemeteries or cemeteries where some Acadians are buried.

Hector Boudreau, his wife Jeanita (nee LeBlanc), and Francis LeBlanc of Moncton, New Brunswick, are the photographers. Lucie LeBlanc Consentino then assembled the photographs and published them on a web site.
Lucie is also the RootsWeb Administrator for the Acadian-French-Canadian Mailing List. Fifteen volunteers from that mailing list are now indexing all of the tombstones shown on the site.

NOTE: You can find more information about that mailing list at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/ACADIAN-FRENCH-CANADIAN.html.

To see this huge Acadian genealogy resource, look at http://www.acadian-cemeteries.acadian-home.org/frames.html.

Thousands of Acadian genealogists, myself included, owe a big "thank you" to Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, Hector Boudreau, Jeanita (LeBlanc) Boudreau, Francis LeBlanc, and all the indexers.

Comments

[Lucie LeBlanc Consentino]

Hi Dick,

Thank you for highlighting the New Brunswick Cemetery project.

We have also begun with some Nova Scotia cemeteries on the NB/NS border.

When the good weather returns, Hector, Jeanita and Francis will be out taking photos of more cemeteries and a fellow from northern New Brunswick has offered to photograph 5 cemeteries there - included will be Bathurst, Petit Rocher, etc.

All volunteers are welcome to participate. ;o)

Sincerely,

Lucie

[Tim]

Great Work! Is there any way to find the indexes without pulling up each page? Any search features?

[theKiwi]

The article above notes that

"Fifteen volunteers from that mailing list are now indexing all of the tombstones shown on the site."

It's a reasonable assumption that once this is done there will be an index available on the site.

Roger

[Lucie LeBlanc Consentino]

Hi Tim,

The indexing is almost complete. For now the only way to see an index is to go to the individual page and bring up the index on that page. Once the indexes are complete - we hope this will be accomplished by January 13th - a Master Index will be created and that should be searchable with the "find" feature on one's computer.

The Master Index link will be placed at the top of the sidebar.

Thank you for asking!

[Francis LeBlanc]

Hi!!

This is Francis from Moncton NB and thanks for the comments you made
of Hector,Jeannita and Myself about the time we took to take photos
of the headstones.
I find that in some cases that there is a lot of data on a headstone, that is why we chose to do that.
Our main goal is to try and help those that hev moved from their Acadian home land and do not have access to the CEA as we are...
So we hope that all the people that use your site and Lucie`s will find the link. Lucie was the Key person to make this all happen...

Thanks again... continued good luck.

[Jean_Paul Boudreau]

Hi,
You have a great site, and you are all good people, for the time that you have dedicated to this wonderful project. I am of Acadian Descent, as you probably already gathered by my name. My ancestord are from Cape Breton, and Ile Madame. If you ever transcribe any tombs out that way, i would love to know, and posibly help you. I live in Gloucester, MA USA, though I visit N.S. frequently.

Regards,
J.P. Boudreau

Please excuse the mis spelling of Cape Breton, though it is all that was available.

[Hello:]

Thank you so much for your hard work in helping families looking for their ancestors whom we know so little about. I have been trying to find information on great-grandparents Placide and Obeline (Thibodeau) Boucher of St. Norbert, New Brunswick, Canada. Your site has helped me find places to look for their burial site when we visit in a week or so. This will be my first visit and am so looking foward to finding information on our family. My dad is 87 and still living, God willing when I find more information we will take him to his father's birthplace.

Regards and many thanks,
Sheila (Boucher) Lee