A new statewide headstone project has begun in an endeavor to post 
photos of South Dakota headstones. The site has been up for about three weeks, and currently has 2700 headstone photos posted. Granted – this isn’t findagrave.com, but in a project of this nature, you have to start someplace…
Folks are encouraged to capture digital images of gravestones and download those images to www.southdakotagravestones.org.
“I would say that people’s involvement with genealogy is the biggest reason they participate,” administrator Brad Kellogg said. To date, there are five county coordinators and 18 counties have contributed to the site. There are 23, independently licensed sites across the country.
Kellogg plans to contact South Dakota churches, encouraging their congregations to submit the cemetery records from their local churchyards, thus making a permanent record of their cemetery. Volunteers are needed to help take photos at the gravesites and submit them to the Web site.
Find out more in the March 4, 2009 edition of the Dell Rapids Tribune at DellRapidsInfo.com