Dear Listers; Does anyone know if there is a group for people who wish to be members of Ontario association for cemeteries? I know there is one for professionals. But is there one for people like ourselves who can join and play an active part in the care, rules and ongoing issues? Look forward to your answers. Sheila

Sheila, spoke to friend and Manager of one of our local cemeteries and she says to her knowledge there is nothing like that. Each cemetery (as you know) has their own by laws and due to liability issues they must be very careful. Especially now that the Municipalities have taken over the "ownership" of most of them. The Ontario Association for cemeteries have their own by laws that each Cemetery must adhere to and again having the public come in and do what you are thinking of again becomes a liability issue. Personally am not sure I would like to accept the responsibility for someone else's property. Each plot is privately owned and if we ever did something to cause damage or get injured, we could be on the hook financially. This idea would take a lot of research before trying to implement. At the very outmost, would think if you wanted to play an active part in the care, rules and on going issues you would first have to get yourself elected to the Board. (locally or otherwise) Ellen -----Original Message----- From: GEN [mailto:gendreamer@wightman.ca] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 11:12 AM To: CA-ONT-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ON-CEM] Cemeteries group for Ontario? Dear Listers; Does anyone know if there is a group for people who wish to be members of Ontario association for cemeteries? I know there is one for professionals. But is there one for people like ourselves who can join and play an active part in the care, rules and ongoing issues? Look forward to your answers. Sheila ==== CA-ONT-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~silentguardians (lookups ) http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~clifford/index.htm ( photos) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janjones/ (view obits online) ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005