Please don't refer questions to me - I'm just the "messenger" :) Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:08 PM Subject: [ALMONTGO-L] ALABAMA CEMETERIES Important EVENT! > Dear friends and fellow researchers, > > Important event! PRESERVING ALABAMA'S CEMETERIES - WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE! > > Subjects covered: > > "Effective Cemetery Laws and Legal Actions" > Cemetery Workshop and Conference - Nov. 1, 2003 > > Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance (ACPA) Membership > > ACPA Web Site - NEW! > > Become an ACPA County Representative! > > Please read this entire message - there is important information all > the way to the bottom for everyone! > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Effective Cemetery Laws and Legal Actions" > and Cemetery Workshop > Sponsored by: > The Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance > The Alabama Historical Commission > The Montgomery Genealogical Society, Inc > The Alabama Preservation Alliance > > Date: Saturday November 1, 2003 > Time: 9:30a.m. -3:30p.m. > Place: Alabama Archives Auditorium > 624 Washington Avenue > Montgomery, Alabama > > Important Event: If you missed the cemetery workshop last November, > don't overlook this important follow-up event!! Preservationists, > historians, > genealogists, legal advisors, county and state officials are > scheduled to participate in workshop presentations and panels on > Alabama cemetery laws and legal actions that YOU can take to preserve > your family, town or county cemetery. Help us improve and enforce > the laws - attend the workshop, join the ACPA and show your support. > Also on the workshop agenda (not to be missed) - a Monument Repair > Specialist will answer your questions about what to do and NOT to do > in repairing your ancestors' broken markers. Photographs of "before" > and "after" work conducted in both remote rural sites and city > cemeteries will be shown. > Registration: Cemetery Workshop with lunch-$25, without lunch $20. > ACPA members Cemetery Workshop with lunch-$15, without lunch-$10. Fee > includes a box lunch, complimentary morning refreshments, door prizes > and more. County/cemetery/history/genealogy books will be available > for purchase during workshop (inquire if you would like space for > your society or books). You'll even have time for research in the > reference room before the Archives closes at 5:00 p.m. Send > registration and check payable to: ACPA Cemetery Workshop, P. O. Box > 230194, Montgomery, AL 36123-0194 (or pay by PayPal). For further > information, email Joyce Nicoll, the President of ACPA: > > Email: [email protected] > > REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 24, 2003. > > PAYPAL NOW AVAILABLE: If you would like to register and pay by credit > card, the ACPA is now set up to receive Cemetery Workshop Conference > fees, and ACPA Membership dues through PayPal. If you are already > familiar with PayPal and wish to make use of this convenient service > when sending in your Conference fees and/or ACPA Membership fees, > please email me directly and I will send you brief and easy > instructions (my email address are at the bottom of the page). PayPal > is one of the most secure methods of making credit card payments over > the Internet and accepts several different cards (MasterCard/Visa, > AmX, Discover and eCHECK). If you have not used PayPal before and > would like to check it out, please go to http://www.paypal.com. > (There is no cost to you to sign up.) Then email me for the PayPal > account info to make a payment. > > If you would like me to send you a flyer all about the Cemetery > Workshop Conference (PDF), and/or an ACPA Membership form (PDF) (no > obligation to join if you wish to receive the form), (see bottom of > page for may email addresses). If you do not have the ability to read > a PDF file, you can download a FREE Acrobat Reader to view PDF's for > either PC or MAC from > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html You may also > send in membership fees through PayPal and mail in a print-out copy > of the completed form (address is on the form). We are working on an > on-line membership form that can be completed and sent in over the > Internet, but it is not quite ready. > > ACPA WEB SITE! We are in the process of building a wonderful web site > for the ACPA, which will debut in a presentation at the Cemetery > Workshop/Conference on Nov. 1. This site will be dedicated to sharing > all kinds of material on PRESERVING, RESTORING AND CONSERVING Alabama > Cemeteries. It is CHOCK-FULL of all kinds of GREAT things. Many of > Alabama's cemeteries are being lost to the elements of mother nature, > neglect and vandalism. The ACPA is working "hand in hand" with the > Alabama Historical Commission to make sure that you have all the > information you need to help preserve Alabama's Cemetery Heritage. > One of the main missions of the ACPA is to encourage individuals, > families and community groups to ADOPT a cemetery and take steps to > help restore and preserve it. Issues on monument theft and vandalism > are covered, as well as steps to take to ADOPT a cemetery. The site > will have articles and "step by step" instructions, not only on the > techniques of preserving and repairing cemeteries and grave markers, > but also on the processes of establishing a non-profit Cemetery > Association in Alabama, including by-laws, Articles of Association, > and how and who to submit these to, so you can preserve your > cemeteries for all time. Much of this information may be adapted to > cemetery plights throughout the nation. Also a section on the Alabama > Legal Code pertaining to laws that address the protection of > cemeteries. AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, the ACPA has established an on-line > CEMETERY REGISTER - A method/form for you to REGISTER cemeteries and > burial surveys with the ACPA ON-LINE!. These REGISTERED Cemeteries > will be recorded in the ACPA database, not only as a method to > document them, but will be accompanied by a searchable database, so > the guests to the ACPA web site may search cemeteries by name and > county. It is the goal of the ACPA to REGISTER every cemetery in the > state of Alabama. Once you register a cemetery, you may return to > your original registration and up-date it with additional information > as you discover it. We will also have a BURIAL LISTING database that > will allow individuals to submit their cemetery burial surveys, also > searchable by name, cemetery and county. ALL OF THIS will be > presented at the Alabama Cemetery Workshop Conference on Nov. 1. > Meanwhile, please visit the site and sign our GUESTBOOK to be > notified when the full site will be fully operable and to receive > further information about the Conference and ACPA Membership. > http://www.alabama-cemetery-preservation.com or http://www.alcpa.net > > LAST BUT NOT LEAST! become an ACPA COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE! The ACPA is > establishing a County Representative to act as a liaison for the ACPA > in each County. We have JUST opened these volunteer positions up and > they are GOING FAST! If you have Internet access and email and live > in an Alabama county that you would like to represent, and are > interested in preserving and recording the cemeteries in your county > and would like to know more about this very important volunteer > position, please contact me, or the ACPA County Coordinator, Ted > Urquhart. > > Ted's ACPA County Coordinator email address is: > [email protected] > > My email addresses are: [email protected] > or my ACPA Web Master address is: > [email protected] > > Thank You, Cynthia Sims Kirkland (ACPA Web Master) and > Ted Urquhart (ACPA Vice President and County Coordinator) > > P.S. Hope to see you there! Please pass this on! > -- > Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance (ACPA) > "Preserve, Restore and Venerate." > Saving Alabama Cemeteries > http://www.alabama-cemetery-preservation.com > > Please visit and sign the Guest Book. >