San Bernardino, and they do it under the Trespassing law. Jeff Jan Patterson wrote: > EXCUSE ME?!!!That's public domain, they can't legally keep you from > doing it. Besides, the markers don't belong to them. They belong to > the families. Therefore if you are copying the markers, you must be > family. Now I can see some of them not wanting you to do something like > chalk on the markers to brighten the letters for photos, but then you > can sometimes do that with water, which won't hurt them. > > I'm afraid those cemeteries and I would go to war over that rule. Where > are you located? Jan who is still reeling from the cost of opening and > closing her grandmother's grave a year later in OK > > Jeff Scism wrote: >> We have two cemeteries out here that will not let you copy information >> off markers, so they aren't always too friendly to genealogists. >> >> Jeff >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

So let me get this right, your family purchases a plot, pays for the stone and the services to put them in the ground and if you go to "visit" them on the property your family actually owns, due to the purchase of the plot you are trespassing? What is there reasoning that you can't copy down the info? It doesn't belong to them. You aren't benefiting from it financially. Let me guess they have a book they want you to pay big bucks for. So you are saying if I travel from OK to visit the grave of one of my family and I take a photo or write down the info, they can legally jail me for trespassing on a public cemetery? Do they have signs posted to this affect? I'm sorry, but this sounds like some politician has his thumb in a pie and something legally needs to be done about it. Jan who can't believe the crassness of some people in OK Jeff Scism wrote: > San Bernardino, and they do it under the Trespassing law. > > Jeff>

I don't believe this at all, I have been taking pictures of Grave stones for years, and then publishing them on The Gen Web Cemetery page for that state, So people can find their loved ones, And I have never been stopped by anyone. Just a pat on the back and a Thank You from most people, The only thing about the trespass law is on private property,Some ones home or farm, And Even then I have just walked up knocked on the door and asked ,and they have let me take pictures and copy the info, I have never heard of any case where anyone was stopped for this. I would like to hear of a specific case. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Patterson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [INPUTNAM] another way to find death certificates and wills-funeral homes > So let me get this right, your family purchases a plot, pays for the > stone and the services to put them in the ground and if you go to > "visit" them on the property your family actually owns, due to the > purchase of the plot you are trespassing? > > What is there reasoning that you can't copy down the info? It doesn't > belong to them. You aren't benefiting from it financially. Let me > guess they have a book they want you to pay big bucks for. > > So you are saying if I travel from OK to visit the grave of one of my > family and I take a photo or write down the info, they can legally jail > me for trespassing on a public cemetery? Do they have signs posted to > this affect? > > I'm sorry, but this sounds like some politician has his thumb in a pie > and something legally needs to be done about it. Jan who can't believe > the crassness of some people in OK > > Jeff Scism wrote: >> San Bernardino, and they do it under the Trespassing law. >> >> Jeff> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >