General: In order to ensure sensitive and legal treatment of cemeteries
in areas of construction, or repair, all governments should institute
laws and policies which:
• Avoid impacts to cemeteries where possible.
• Undertake efforts to identify the locations of cemeteries as one type
of cultural resource that may be affected by proposed improvements or
repairs.
• Perform archeological investigations for cemeteries when proposed
activities will impact a known or suspected cemetery, and that cemetery
is believed to be over 50 years of age.
• Seek to consult with the cemetery association (if any) and living
descendants, and carry out, where possible, their recommendations in the
care and treatment of these properties.
• Conform to state laws concerning the maintenance, excavation and
removal of cemeteries and human burials.
• Ensure that reburials are made in a cemetery designated by
descendants, if known, in a cemetery of the appropriate religion, if
known, or in a local cemetery having available space, if no other
preference is indicated.
• Erect a monument at the place of reburial indicating the source and
date of reburial.
• Not publicly exhibit nor authorize the public exhibit of human remains
or photographs of human burials. Respecting the dignity of the deceased,
and their families is of primary importance.
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Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG
"Genealogy- where the living ask questions of the dead- without a ouija
board."
S250 DNA Project
Crawley DNA Project
International Blacksheep Society of Genealogists
Genealogy Hall of Shame
Scism Genealogy website
Peffley'Pefley'Peffly Family Association
Montgomery County Indiana USGenWeb site