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: "tjhowell1" <tjhowell1@bellsouth.net> To: <flduval@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [FLDUVAL] St. Joseph's Cemetery - Re: Julie Thames Howell > When I talked to the gentleman who was in the St. Joseph's Office he told > me that the church has a map of where, and who, all the burials are. As I > stated in my message to Mary Kemp, I don't think the church wants a survey > done of the St. Joseph's Cemetery. I was given the distinct impression, > in fact, that they were completely against anyone other than the church > itself having a 'record' of the burials there. I was also given to > believe that the church membership (particularly the 'older more > established members') were very private about the names of their ancestors > buried there and did not want it recorded, photographed, etc. by anyone. > The names of the contact persons that I provided were the gentleman that I > had originally spoken to (Steve Connley) and a man (Mr. Dobrie) that Mr. > Connley said knew a great deal about the burials in St. Joseph's Cemetery. > As I said in my earlier message, I don't know if either of those gentlemen > are still connected actively with St. J! > oseph's. > > Julie > > > From: lmickler > To: flduval@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:37 PM > Subject: Re: [FLDUVAL] St. Joseph's Cemetery - Re: Julie Thames Howell > > > I am a member of St. Joseph's Church. When I inquired a couple of years > ago about whether an ancestor was buried there, I was told that the church > did not have records of the burials in the cemetery. If there has been a > survey made since that time, I am not aware of it. > > St. Joseph's has a fairly good size cemetery, and the graves go back to > the > 1800s. The church recently increased the size of the cemetery. > > I don't think it would be objectionable for someone to survey the > cemetery. > I would like to do it myself, and if I ever finish the project I am now > involved in, I thought I might. However, it is going to be quite a while > before I will be available to do it. > > Apparently the contact persons that were named by Ms. Howell are willing > to go to the cemetery and do lookups. > > 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 >