Have you thought of surveying and put in booklet form the cemeteries that you
are afraid of loosing content on the stones of? You can list cemetery, plot
#, name and other data and put it in the hands of the local genealogy society,
court house, library,
church and county recorder or whom ever cares for the cemetery plus of course
you having a copy. This can all be done on the computer, printed out either
put in 3 ring binder or stapled together. This is one way of saving all the
data per stone and you could also put a small map of where everyone was and/or
section wise. This would not be as expensive as a whole as replacing each
stone that you feel should be preserved. Jefferson Co., IN has done this to most
of the cemeteries in that county and they have it online in the counties web
site. They gave been working on this for years and have most of the
cemeteries done and online. People also submit pictures of personal grave stones of
families. Something to think about. Beej
PS If you need any help in doing something like this in typing pages or what
ever just let me know and I will help. I am simi handicaped so walking long
distances
is a problem for me. Much can be done with computer and snail mail once the
survey is complete or can be typed row by row as that is finished.
Also directions for getting to the cemetery is important to be needed for the
survey.
From: "Robinson" <robinson(a)svs.net>
To: <IN-CEMETERIES-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 6:01 PM
Subject: [IN-CEM] Question about lowest cost markers
I have been wondering about this for some time. I have a number
of
more
distant ancestors that need some kind of very, very very very basic
marker.
All of my older family members are pretty much gone and if I
don't do
something some of the family graves will be lost when I pass. I am much
too
"blessed with poverty" to spend the about $300 per stone
for the basic
carved stone to be set that seems to be about the minimum around here.
Some
stones are missing and some are becoming unreadable. These are mostly
rather
neglected cemeteries (the old part that everybody stands with their
back
to
when they look at the cemetery) so I am not too worried about meeting
some
standard requirement.