Hello,
OK, now I'm confused. I thought Sharon Howell <sshowell(a)indy.net> with the
Indiana Genealogical Society was working on this project also. Is there
more than one agency working on this project? Maybe the DNR should attempt
to coordinate with the people that are light years ahead of them on this
project. Sharon and the IGS are doing a great job of collecting and
compiling these records State-wide, seems like a duplication of effort for
the DNR to start from scratch. The Indiana Genealogical Society probably
already has most of the information that the DNR needs. We have many of
the 200 plus cemeteries in Gibson County located and documented, we just
need to know what data and in what format the DNR wants.
Ernie Lasley, Coordinator
Gibson County Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project
Cemetery page:
http://www.usroots.com/~jmurphy/gibson/gibcem/gibcem.htm
At 12:45 AM 3/3/01, you wrote:
Resent-Sender: IN-CEMETERIES-L-request(a)rootsweb.com
This article was in the Thursday, February 22, 2001 issue of the
Indianapolis Star:
State Seeks Information on Early Graveyards
"Hear the words of one brave woman: "No, I don't want them to write
me. I want them to call me."
That's Jeannie Regan-Dinius, whose title at the Department of Natural
Resources is database director, but whose job
description might be Cemetery Finder. If you know of an old cemetery in
Indiana, she wants to hear from you.
Last year, the Indiana General Assembly authorized the DNR to create an
electronic central list of the state's historic
cemeteries and prehistoric burial sites, but provided no money for the
project. Regan-Dinius is the only person
involved in the effort to create a new state registry and database.
By the end of this week, she hopes to have a form that people can fill out.
Eventually, she said, the public will have access to the completed database.
If you want to report a cemetery, call Regan-Dinius at the DNR Division of
Historic Preservation and Archaeology at
(317)232-1646. If you or your group wants to volunteer to help with the
project, she really, really wants to hear from
you."
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