Julie, if they felt that strongly about it I would drop the survey issue. It would seem to me at that point that each individual seeking a family member/ancestor to call the church to see if they are buried there and arrange permission to visit the cemetery. I am sure they must have their reason/s and guess we should respect them even if we don't understand/agree. I am sure there is a great responsibility protecting and caring for a cemetery that size. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "tjhowell1" <tjhowell1@bellsouth.net> To: <flduval@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [FLDUVAL] St. Joseph's Cemetery - Re: Julie Thames Howell >I can't tell you what year I did the one-name survey for my friend, and >subsequently talked to Mr. Connely. I would make a stab at about >2000-2001ish. I only know what I said in my messages. If the church >allows someone to do a survey, that's great. If the church allows the >survey to be put on-line, even better. Good luck in your venture. > > Julie > > > > Hello Julie, > > I don't know either of the gentlemen you named at St. Joseph's, so I don't > know if they are still there. I am a member of the "older more > established > families" at St. Joseph's, and I never heard anything about this before > now. > This must have been something that was decided by the new cemetery > commission which I think was established in the last few years when our > pastor decided we needed to increase the size of the cemetery. > > St. Joseph's has grown in the last 25 yrs. from a church of about 800 > families to one of over 4,000 families. Our pastor is very busy, but I > will > try to catch him after Mass and ask him if there are any objections to > having the cemetery surveyed and the findings being made available to > genealogists. > > L. Mickler > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: lmickler > To: flduval@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:35 PM > Subject: Re: [FLDUVAL] St. Joseph's Cemetery - Re: Julie Thames Howell > > > I don't doubt at all what you are saying, but as a member of that church, > I > was certainly unaware of this, and no one asked me if I objected. > > I am going to ask our pastor if he has any objections to the cemetery > being > surveyed and the survey being posted online. If he does not object, I > will > let you know. I had actually talked to the secretary a few years ago > about > surveying it in the future, and she thought it was a good idea. I really > don't have time to do it now. > > My idea was to survey it and possibly put the survey in booklet form to be > sold by the church as a money-raising venture. I didn't plan to > photograph > the tombstones as part of it, though. > > L. Mickler > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message