Sheila's Visit to Compton Abbas Part II,' Some  Merefields were Baptized, Married and Buried here.
Channel: semw52
Date: 2023-04-16

My only visit to Compton Abbas in Dorset in 2008.Part II is a continuation of the recording.In 2023 I decided to add some photos and images of my visit and some by others under creative commons licence...The web-links allow me to share on my family tree database for family  to visit--This facility allows others to listen with photos.But in many areas of the tree I have many digital video recording  created with  good cameras like Sony and Kodak...But the  hand held cassette tape recording are still extremely useful and a record in time---very handy for grave and memorial scanning for ease of location via a counter  located on the actual recorder.Scanning might seem laborious but  many times names surface  with further tree research and hence saving the data is invaluable especially as gravestones are often removed, fall into despair and become unreadable---However over the past 10 years more effort has been made by cemeteries to help preserve and restore BUT Rubblization does occur on a big scale in some town and city cemeteries  when they are short of body room--they will demolish graves and bury the newly dead on top---this does happen----So folks scanning and recording is an essential aspect of family tree---Small village  churchyards tend to OK but stones  are still removed at times.....