This topic came up a few years ago, but might benefit from a re-visit.
As we know, the late Christine Stokes and the late Angi Lamb photographed and transcribed the burial records of cemeteries all across Sutherland a decade or so ago. Following their respective deaths the website containing the pictures and transcripts was taken down a couple of years ago.
On a recent visit to Balnakeil I met some biology students who are using the graves for research into lichen activity on stone. The combination of lichen and further weathering has made some of the gravestones that were legible a decade ago nearly impossible to read; in another twenty years many of the horizontal sandstone markers will be utterly illegible. Re-doing the work completed before will perhaps salvage 90-95% of the old data now, but each year will see more inscriptions lost forever. My great-grandfather's stone for one is deteriorating rapidly and might survive twenty years at best
Is anyone here in touch with the families of the two ladies and able to access the old pictures and transcripts for re-posting?
