It looks like (without a miracle) I won't be able to come. I am moving back "home" to Fairburn. Or at least closer to home, on the 6th, and fully expect to be both exhausted and terribly busy trying to find stuff. IF this does not turn out to be true, and all is put away and organized (HA!) I'll be there. Jane "S.K Bramlett" wrote: > > Notice to family members of Hillcrest Cemetery located on Stanton Road > in East Point, Georgia. > > On Sunday, April 7, 2002 Family and Friends of Hillcrest Cemetery will > host an Historical Tour of the cemetery to help with community awareness > and involvement. Family member involvement is essential so that those > community members that do not have genealogical ties to the cemetery > will be able to see the faces and hear the stories of family members > giving them a more intimate picture of the people and families that they > are helping through their continued involvement. > > The tour will be followed by a Volunteer Litter Pick up. The Litter pick > up will help assist our sister organization "Hillcrest Memorial > Association.Inc" in the up coming full scale maintenance that is > planned. If you are unable to attend and live near by, Litter picks may > be performed at your discretion in your spare time and would be greatly > appreciated. > > Refreshments will be provided. > > Place: Hillcrest Cemetery on Stanton Rd. East Point Ga 30344. > Date: Sunday, April 7th, 2002. > Time: 11:00 A.M. > > For those of you that may want to contact us for look ups, we can't do > that because the cemetery records are being held hostage by the owner > who has abandoned the cemetery. We are currently working with the East > Point City Council to include the records in a levy of the real holdings > of the owner. We will provide email addresses to the city council > members as well as the mayor on this list in a few days and request that > you partake in an email campaign telling them that these records should > be placed in the hands of someone who cares and that they are available > at no charge to family members and descendants of those resting in the > cemetery. > > While we cannot do lookups because we do not have access to the records, > we do catalog the names through requests and if they are seen within the > cemetery on one of our visits, we will contact you. We ask that the > requests be limited to those that know for certain that the grave > requested is in fact located in the cemetery. Hillcrest hold over 4000 > grave sites and is very large in scale. Some areas are inaccessible that > this time. > > Official website with more information about the tour. > http://www.geocities.com/hillcrest_ep/index.html > > Telephone contact: Steven K. Bramlett 404-762-0940. > > Thanks for your time and we hope to see you there. > > ==== GA-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > The GA-CEMETERY Volunteer and Cemetery Inventory site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gacemete/ > To search the Archives of this list http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl type in GA-CEMETERIES > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237