Hi, apologies for any cross-postings see below, these folks may be yours and mine ancestors and we wouldn't want any of ours exhumed, stored in boxes and then put back in the parking lot and paved over again. Kind regards, Brenda Hamilton, New Zealand Begin forwarded message: > From: WBLynn315@aol.com > Date: 17 April 2007 2:07:53 AM > To: ny-can-ny@rootsweb.com, can-shipslists-pre1865@rootsweb.com, > SICemetery@aol.com, upper-canada@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CAN-SHIPS-PRE1865] Immigrant remains on S.I. Urgent Plea for > Support > Reply-To: can-shipslists-pre1865@rootsweb.com > > > Genealogy community can help provide a dignified re-interrment of > immigrants > exhumed from Staten Island Quarantine Cemetery, buried from 1799-1858. > > Last month Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island NY sent > out a > plea for letters of support for the proper re-interrment of the > immigrant > remains that were EXHUMED from a municipal parking lot once the site > of the NYC > Quarantine Hospital/cemetery. This particular NYC Quarantine station > operated > from 1799-1858. The immigrants who came to the USA during the Great > Hunger > and were ill (as many were) passed through the S.I. Quarantine Hosp > and > ultimately many died and were buried at the cemetery now a MUNICIPAL > PARKING LOT. > > These human remains were EXHUMED in 2006. They are now held at a > facility > located in Brooklyn in storage boxes. > > Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries has offered a large section of a > historic > cemetery that we maintain for the proper reinterrment of these HUMAN > remains. > The USA Ancient Order of Hibernians has backed the plan. > > Without letters of support from you the genealogy community, these > remains > will be PUT BACK INTO THE PARKING LOT! Paved over once again and > forgotten. > > Please, we ask that you take 1 minute of your time, send a letter of > support > to: _SICemetery@aol.com_ (mailto:SICemetery@aol.com) . Support the > reinterrment to Staten Island Cemetery. > > Time is once again running out for these unfortunate travelers. We in > the > genealogy community have accumulated their information, now we must > provide to > them final dignity. Your letter of support could make this possible. > > Please send a letter of support today to _SICemetery@aol.com_ > (mailto:SICemetery@aol.com) > > Thank you. > > Lynn A. Rogers > Executive Director 917-545-3309 > Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, Inc. Staten Island > > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > > search multiple websites for ships to Canada at > > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >