Firstly a big thank you to all who have contacted me with offers of help. I have tried to categorise the kind of help we need on the project.
We need people on the ground taking photos both of the local area and gravestones. We need people to donate any old images of Lurgan and surrounding villages. We need people with any information on the history of Lurgan for the Time-Line section. We would like to start a Family Histories section, where people can submit the story of their family in Lurgan. We need researchers to find any old documents or lists of people living in Lurgan in the past. We need information on the graves of Lurgan men who died in both world wars, where they died, what battalion etc. We need collators and editors for all of the above areas. We need moderators for the forums and suggestions as to what topics are needed in the forums.
I'm sure there are 101 other things that I've forgotten, but that's all I can think of at the moment. You can contact me or send info to (*)
The website design and layout is now finished, so it's just a case of adding the data now. Anyone with any HTML. Flash, Java, PHP experience, who would like to help out would be welcomed.
I think Martin's original idea was for the community to be a part of the project as much or as little as they wanted to and I would like to carry this on. So any help, however small would be very much appreciated.
Many Thanks
Ken
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