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South
Suburban Genealogical
and Historical Society
Hazel Crest, Illinois
Serving south Cook and
east Will
counties, Illinois
including Chicago's Roseland/Pullman neighborhoods
Established
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Cemetery
Photo
Service
SSGHS
photographers will take photographs that you request of tombstones located in
our area of interest.
We can also provide photographs of buildings or other landmarks of
interest to you.
Our
area of interest is:
South Cook
County, IL: Bloom,
Bremen, Calumet, Lemont, Orland, Palos, Rich, Thornton, and Worth townships.
East
Will County, IL:
Crete,
Frankfort, Green Garden, Homer, Manhattan, Monee, New Lenox, Peotone,
Washington, Will, and Wilton townships.
Photos
will be taken with a digital camera and edited with Photo Shop Elements
software to enhance their viewing. We will provide images on a CD so
that you can print them yourself or take them to a local source and have
prints made. Photos will include
the outside of the cemetery, an overview of the section where the graves are
located and close-ups of the individual markers as well as any surrounding
markers that we think might be of interest to you. We will provide any
cemetery information that we have at the SSGHS library.
The
fee for this service will be $15.00/hour with a minimum of $40.00, which will
include travel, editing, and postage.
Because of certain circumstances such
as extended driving time or difficulty locating the grave sites, we ask that
you submit your request and we will give you a quote of the cost. This
is especially necessary when there are a large number of grave sites you
desire to have photos of and they are located in several different areas of
the cemetery. This would increase the cost above our
minimum of $40.00. We will then complete the request upon receipt of your check.
When
possible, you should
provide the exact location of the grave sites so that the photographer doesn't
have to spend time searching for them.
Also, provide the names and approximate dates if known and when the
cemetery office is open if there is one.
In other words, the more information you can provide, the more
efficient we can be which will keep your costs to the minimum.
This
service will not be provided in winter.
Here
is a sample of our photographic quality
Click
here for printable order form.
Hello,
I have received the cemetery photos that you did
for me. You (Joe Staackmann) did a great job!!! I was hoping for more
information and although some cemeteries are full of new facts for me, others
are just NOT. It was not a total bust however, and I am sure when I get all
the info it will be a correct and complete picture.
I hope to be able to send another request for
the Mt. Olivet Cemetery soon.
I wanted to thank you for your organizations
representation for me in the Chicago area and for the important work you do in
providing family history data to people like me.
Have a wonderful summer.
Nancie in Texas
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Ray: (Ray Bergman) Info received! It is the next best thing to going there
myself! You did a marvelous job! Thanks muchly. I do have
another request after seeing your pix, I spied a small stone in the tall grass
that said WILLIAM DUBREUIL. Wm. & Mattie's family were my father's
second cousins and I would like pictures of all of the DuBreuil stones that
you can find. I will put a check in the mail for you when I get back
from the library today.
Yvonne in Michigan
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Thank you
very much for the photos! They came out great. I appreciate you taking
time to help me
with a nice addition to my genealogy.
Sincerely,
Jody in Kentucky
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I received the photos back from Ray Bergman this week and he did a
fantastic job. I'm quite happy with the extras he did. In addition to
many wonderful photos, Ray and his wife gave a wonderfully detailed
information paper on all the people and dates found on the headstones
and even those people without headstones. He further detailed a map on
the location of each of the headstones at the cemetery. I will order
another group of photos at Cedar Park Cemetery in Chicago.
Thank you again for all the help provided and thank you to Ray Bergman.
Harry in Kentucky
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Ray,
Received the photos yesterday. I was very impressed by the details and
quantity of pictures, which made it feel as though I had taken the trip
myself. Besides the excitement of finally seeing the family headstone, the
dates on the tombstones have helped my research a great deal and brought me
that much closer to my family that was scattered during the Depression.
Although I did not recognize any names on the other headstones you
photographed, it still made the place more real for me. I expect that I
may need your services again as I uncover more family history down the
road. In fact if you are able to take photos of actual landmarks like
houses or churches, I'm almost certain I will need your help again.
Thank you again!
Jason in California
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Copyright
2009 South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society
3000 West 170th Place, Hazel Crest, IL. 60429 - 1174
Telephone: (708) 335-3340
E-mail to: ssghs@usa.net
Last update 23 August 2009
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