To the list, Over 15 years ago I found out about the death of my great great grandfather. About that time I start looking for his grave hoping to get more information from his tombstone. During the time that I was looking for his burial place the Courier Journal ran an article about the destruction of a cemetery. Since that time I have been recording information from the cemeteries I visited, just in case something along that same line would happen to them. While wandering through the county I found references of four cemeteries that I have not been able to go to due to the refusal of the property owner. (one owner was a corporation and the other three private owners) This concerned me, one is well taken care of, one is not taken care of at all and the other two can not be seen with out going on the property. Currently if you want to visit a cemetery with a known relative you are at the mercy of the property owner , and in most cases this is not a problem. But for those few there is a proposed bill that would help. I think this bill has some good things in it that may help in preserving cemeteries. I know it won't help me see any of the four cemeteries but it may help others who are related. The following is a summary of Kentucky House Bill 332. You may want to call your Kentucky Senator/Repersentive and encourage him to support this bill. Summary: Designate week prior to Memorial Day as Kentucky Cemetery Cleanup Week; establish criteria to grant families and others the right of ingress and egress to cemeteries on privately owned lands; make owner's denial of family access to cemetery a Class B misdemeanor; require deeds to property with a cemetery to indicate location; increase $25 fine-per-incident for judicial officers who fail or refuse to enforce statutes related to cemeteries to no less than $500 and no more than $1,000; repeal and reenact selected statutes in KRS Chapters 61 and 381 as new sections of KRS Chapter 307; require the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet to inventory all Native American remains currently held by state-funded agencies and all state-owned real estate that would be suitable for reinterment of Native American remains, and to report to General Assembly on or before January 15, 2006; require an individual who files a death certificate to include specific location of interment site, effective January 1, 2006; require cemetery owners to keep records at cemetery's place of business to allow families to readily access interment sites of loved ones; and impose a fine on any cemetery owner who does not keep records of not less than $100 and not more than $500 for each offense. ~Alan