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 >