Hello everyone, I would like encourage anyone on this list to try and contact Susan about the cemetery workshop. Mark Davis is very good. He came down last year and helped us out a lot on a cemetery in Wayne County and taught some of us the proper techniques on restoring tombstones. Most people studying family history end up in many cemeteries looking for their long lost relatives. We have all seen broken off stones, fallen stones, and broken stones stacked up in the corner of cemeteries or along the fence line(if you look hard enough). There are also many cemeteries where their care have been totally abandoned, with grass and small shrubs grown up throughout the cemetery. There IS something that can be done about this , but it is going to take an effort by many to protect these cemeteries for the future descendents or genealogy seekers. I hope that many of you will attend this workshop so you too can learn the proper techniques of cemetery restoration and join in the effort of preserving our cemeteries. Here is a link to the website for the cemetery that we worked on last fall that has been totally abandoned: http://www.geocities.com/brinatim/MountVernon.html. There is also a link to Mark Davis' web site on there. Gina, I would attend this workshop or another one like it to learn the proper techniques for cemetery restoration. You would have to contact the caretakers of the cemetery for permission before you do restoration. If the cemetery appears abandoned, it is probably the Township Trustee's responsibility. Tim Benner ----- Original Message ----- From: "swelch" <swelch@insightbb.com> To: <INRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:51 AM Subject: [INRANDOL] Cemeteries > Speaking of cemeteries. I am thinking about having Mark Davis present a > class in Union City on cemetery restoration. The first few hours would be > instruction then the rest of the day would be actually putting it to use in > a cemetery. The cost would be about $15.00 a person. Will you write me > back if you are interested in participating. I am trying to find out if I > can get enough people for a class. > Thanks, > Susan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris & Gina Richardson" <richardson69@comcast.net> > To: <INRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:00 AM > Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Barnes in Arba Cemetery > > > > Any tips on how to restore family markers that have been vandalized or > > neglected?? I want to fix several stones, but not sure what all I need to > do > > and who I need to contact to make sure it is ok. > > > > Gina in Muncie > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tim and Sabrina" <brinatim@myexcel.com> > > To: <INRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:58 AM > > Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Barnes in Arba Cemetery > > > > > > > Well, my husband and I certainly have not made any money at it! > Cemetery > > > work is just a hobby for us to work on in our spare time. We are the > > > coordinators for the Wayne County Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration > > > Project, and have actually spent a good deal of money to help repair, > > save, > > > and record stones in Wayne County, and of course Arba. I have spent 2 > > years > > > working on Arba, and I can finally say that the end is in sight. Two > more > > > rows to go, and I will finally have the whole cemetery recorded and > > > photographed. > > > > > > Sabrina > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: <JuPearl@aol.com> > > > To: <brinatim@myexcel.com>; <INRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:39 PM > > > Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Barnes in Arba Cemetery > > > > > > > > > > Wow! What an accomplishment! Congratulations! My husband would love > > to > > > > spend a summer working on reading and listing some Randolph County > > Indiana > > > > cemeteries. I have often wondered if there is any money to be earned > in > > > listing > > > > cemeteries or if it is all volunteer labor. Thanks, Nancy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > > > > ============================== > 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 > >