Oh, my---here we go again. I have been doing restoration in Missouri for a while now and I have heard all sides of this argument. From what I've seen any person who is using good common sense and trying to clean areas and stones has done more that all the naysayers who sit on their duffs and do nothing. I pay people to do most of the restoration because I live in another state but I make trips every year to take care of old graves and contribute to cemetery maintenance. These people who have taken the time and energy to contribute should be commended and not yakked at. Saving Graves is a good source of information but they are not the only experts with an opinion. I have dealt with every kind of clean up issue and the one that is definitely the worst is the one where no one cares and all stones are down and no one has the time, money or energy to fix the lost stones and they are lost and everything on them is lost because they don't get transcribed. I say clean the stones, transcribe the information and pass it on to a site or a library. Then as time passes and old cemeteries and stones are lost the information wont be. Good luck and I love everyone of you who takes the time to save the information off one stone. Bonnie Morris Conrad