Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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December 2007 – The Transcribing Group is taking a Break until the New Year

Transcribing Group June 2007
Transcribing Group June 2007

The dedicated team of Transcribers have been meeting in Ryde Cemetery every Saturday morning throughout the year to record the inscriptions from the grave stones and memorials.

We normally work for a couple of hours and only the severest of weather conditions deter this intrepid troupe of volunteers.

To date we have recorded the details from the graves of over 4,000 individual people and this information has been made available on our searchable database. There is still much work to do before the whole of the cemetery is recorded, but with Christmas fast approaching and the weather beginning to turn much colder we have decided to take a well earned break until the New Year and when the weather warms up again.

Thanks to all of the following people who have given a great deal of their time and commitment to the Transcribing group over the past few years:

Sally-Ann Garrett, Kathie-Ann Gibbs, Maisie Kitching, Rosemary (Bubbles) Smith, Rachael Mead, Liz Graves, Rosemarie Robinson, Kate McDonnell, Diana Woods, David Earle, Mike and Ann Smith, Sophie Sellars (of Ryde School) and also other people who may have just come along for one or two days to help out.

Thanks for all your previous hard work and dedication and I look forward to leading the Transcribing Group again next year.

Janette Gregson
Secretary/Chairperson
Ryde Social Heritage Group.