As many of you know, I am an avid genealogist and volunteer in Maricopa County.  Once in a while, I come across a resource from another region related to my family and try my best to get it there for the masses.

In this instance, my father Douglass sent me a photocopy of a Kimball Cemetery plat map.  This map was given to him by his uncle, Zane Lynn Cole, from Valparaiso, Indiana.  I do not know how he obtained it. 

The plat map was compiled from a plat made in 1944 by Guy Stinchfield.  It is incomplete, but may be of interest to many researchers out there.  It includes multiple individuals and families from my tree branches, so it is of particular interest to me.  I have to apologize for the image quality, but I had to piece together 14 seperate scans to create the entire document.  The original copy is 48″x18″ in size.

For an excellent index of individuals buried in Kimball Cemetery, I urge you to visit the Kimball Cemetery Index on Rootsweb.  The site owner, Steven Shook, has done an excellent job maintaining the index. 

Download Kimball Cemetery Plat Map [PDF] [JPG]

You may know that I am an avid genealogist and family historian.  If you didn’t, then now is your chance to find out!

I have created and updated some of my genealogical sections, including:

• Genealogy Projects (new)
• Our Family History Pages (updated)
• Arizona Genealogical Databases (updated)
• Family Image Archive (updated, username/password required)

If you’re a genealogist who wants to know more about the Family Image Archive, or if you are a family member who would like access to it, please post a comment below.

Well, that big box of photos had a short lived life at our house. It was taken away this evening with only a fraction of the precious photos scanned in. Long story… and one that I don’t feel like telling at the moment. My blood pressure is too high as it is. 

We did manage to get a few critical images from the box, however. One of them, seen here, is grandpa Max Earl Green on his Navy ship during World War II. He was stationed in the South Pacific on the U.S.S. Mona Island.

The original photo is a polariod, no more than 1 inch high. Thank goodness for high resolution scanning.