Hi everyone. I have never had a problem with photographing headstones. Our cemetery is run by a board of directors. The business manager shows me around to the headstones I am looking for and she know exactly what I am doing. The photos were for someone else, not relative. One day while out getting more photos, I ran into a person from the OGS who was updating records for a forthcoming CD. He had no problems with me taking photographs. Heather in Orillia Check http://www.rootsweb.com/~onvsr/ For Ontario Birth, Marriages & Deaths
Hello List, To add my two cents. I am in cemeteries all the time taking digitals for people through RAOGK. So, I can only speak for the U.S.A. in the State of Tennessee ..... I have never in 6 years run into any problems from owners of cemeteries at all. I take 2 photos a month on the average..Tennessee seems to me to be a good spot to rest in, because the people who request going to an ancestors resting place are always from "way out of town" ...must say though, the majority of cemetery's are out in the boondocks. Nowadays, I take someone with me...and with our weather, 12 months a year!! In fact I prefer winter,little or no snow, less briars to comb through :-) but the good people who make transcriptions and put them on cemetery "free" websites are to be thanked profusely. Whether here in US or Canada, we certainly are trying to keep it free. I've spent a lot money sending off for transcriptions and have no way of knowing if they are mine until I ordered that transcription.Thank you Shelia for the cemetery lists..if everybody would transcribe a few tombstones when they visit cemeteries and add them to an index we would soon have a free transcription website to equal no other..... My three cents... Carol Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Bertram" <aaron@bmts.com> To: <CA-ONT-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:53 AM Subject: RE: [ON-CEM] Policy on cemetery photos > > Hi everyone. > > I have never had a problem with photographing headstones. Our cemetery > is run by a board of directors. The business manager shows me around to > the headstones I am looking for and she know exactly what I am doing. > The photos were for someone else, not relative. > > One day while out getting more photos, I ran into a person from the OGS > who was updating records for a forthcoming CD. He had no problems with > me taking photographs. > > > > > Heather in Orillia > Check http://www.rootsweb.com/~onvsr/ > For Ontario Birth, Marriages & Deaths > > > > > > > ==== CA-ONT-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > READ the taglines! > Before you ask for a lookup ...check > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~silentguardians > In search of site: http://ocml0.tripod.com > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.1 - Release Date: 1/19/05 > >