In a message dated 9/6/01 9:47:01 AM US Eastern Standard Time, ssilver1951@jps.net writes: > Has anyone thought of offering classes to the older aged Boy Scout troops? > Or other youth groups that do community service? The older guys can really > be an asset and they have so much energy at that age! > > Sue, Our county is so small we only have a Part time Scoutmaster. No, seriously there is paper work, permission, from parents, property owners, Etc, Etc. I don't have time for all of that. I am going to try to get the SIGS (Southern Indiana Gen. Soc.) to handle that. I'll see what happens. When I am finished with all of the locating, finding deeds to determine the sizes of the cemeteries, and the owners of the property, there will be in excess of 500 sheets of information to fill out. I think I have that part covered, all I have to do is figure out all of the Information and the Southern Indiana Genealogical Society will take that and Put it on paper. Also I have 5 township Trustees that have no idea where all of their cemeteries are. I have to solve that problem also. The Scouts are a great idea, but I don't have time to complete everything else and work with them. I can't spread me that thin. I am going to the local Newspaper, and if I can intrest them in doing a story about my needeing volunteers on weekends to help clear, I might get a Response. But if you could see this country, you would understand their reluctance to come forward. Also that would mean besides still only being semi-retired from the Masonry Bussiness, working on my cemetery information, and taking on weekends on clearing, I don't know what to do, or when to do it. I know I definately need help. That I have to work on right away Sorry for venting my frustration, I didn't start out to do that. I never do, it just happens. Jack E. Briles Sr. Floyd Co. PCRP Cooridinator PO Box 444 New Albany, In. 47151-0444

I even went so far as to contact the local Boy Scout office for the whole area around Seattle. I was rebuffed. It was as if they had enough things for their scouts. I even asked that they pass it on down to Eagle Scout leaders and never heard another word. Andi ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jb502000@aol.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Workday and training needed! > In a message dated 9/6/01 9:47:01 AM US Eastern Standard Time, > ssilver1951@jps.net writes: > > > > Has anyone thought of offering classes to the older aged Boy Scout troops? > > Or other youth groups that do community service? The older guys can really > > be an asset and they have so much energy at that age! > > > > > Sue, > Our county is so small we only have a Part time Scoutmaster. No, > seriously there is paper work, permission, from parents, property owners, > Etc, Etc. I don't have time for all of that. I am going to try to get the > SIGS (Southern Indiana Gen. Soc.) to handle that. I'll see what happens. When > I am finished with all of the locating, finding deeds to determine the sizes > of the cemeteries, and the owners of the property, there will be in excess of > 500 sheets of information to fill out. I think I have that part covered, all > I have to do is figure out all of the Information and the Southern Indiana > Genealogical Society will take that and Put it on paper. Also I have 5 > township Trustees that have no idea where all of their cemeteries are. I have > to solve that problem also. > The Scouts are a great idea, but I don't have time to complete > everything else and work with them. I can't spread me that thin. I am going > to the local Newspaper, and if I can intrest them in doing a story about my > needeing volunteers on weekends to help clear, I might get a Response. But if > you could see this country, you would understand their reluctance to come > forward. Also that would mean besides still only being semi-retired from the > Masonry Bussiness, working on my cemetery information, and taking on weekends > on clearing, I don't know what to do, or when to do it. I know I definately > need help. That I have to work on right away > Sorry for venting my frustration, I didn't start out to do that. I never > do, it just happens. > Jack E. Briles Sr. > Floyd Co. PCRP Cooridinator > PO Box 444 > New Albany, In. 47151-0444 > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living? > >

Jack, let the scouts do all the paperwork. I e-mailed the Allen County, Indiana scoutmaster asking for help with the Hatfield Cemetery in Washington township, just north of Fort Wayne. The first burial there was in 1836 and I believe it is still active, last burial being in 1988, however there was a great part of it completely overgrown with quite a few broken and overturned headstones. It took six months before I heard anything back, then one day last summer I got a call from the scouts letting me know that they were ready to start. There were over 50 people there on that first day, including two cub scout packs, one boy scout troop and one Varsity scout troop. They are now about to the fence line, this is only a one acre cemetery, have made a new sign, are looking for a fence company to donate fencing, and want to build a shelter with the history of the cemetery. There is one veteran of the war of 1812, my(GGGG grandfather) there along with 15 civil war veterans. I have never been a scout and have no sons so I've never been involved with them before but let me tell you, what a GREAT bunch of people. They have made Hatfield cemetery a simi-annual project. Brian E. Smead Terre Haute, Indiana > Sue, > Our county is so small we only have a Part time Scoutmaster. No, > seriously there is paper work, permission, from parents, property owners, > Etc, Etc. I don't have time for all of that. I am going to try to get the > SIGS (Southern Indiana Gen. Soc.) to handle that. I'll see what happens. When > I am finished with all of the locating, finding deeds to determine the sizes > of the cemeteries, and the owners of the property, there will be in excess of > 500 sheets of information to fill out. I think I have that part covered, all > I have to do is figure out all of the Information and the Southern Indiana > Genealogical Society will take that and Put it on paper. Also I have 5 > township Trustees that have no idea where all of their cemeteries are. I have > to solve that problem also. > The Scouts are a great idea, but I don't have time to complete > everything else and work with them. I can't spread me that thin. I am going > to the local Newspaper, and if I can intrest them in doing a story about my > needeing volunteers on weekends to help clear, I might get a Response. But if > you could see this country, you would understand their reluctance to come > forward. Also that would mean besides still only being semi-retired from the > Masonry Bussiness, working on my cemetery information, and taking on weekends > on clearing, I don't know what to do, or when to do it. I know I definately > need help. That I have to work on right away > Sorry for venting my frustration, I didn't start out to do that. I never > do, it just happens. > Jack E. Briles Sr. > Floyd Co. PCRP Cooridinator > PO Box 444 > New Albany, In. 47151-0444 > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living? > >