Hi Group!! Now for my opinion. My mother-in-law & I write up old cemeteries, taking photos, do clean up if necessary, clean the stones, dig them up if they have become buried, fix them record the cemetery with photos, a map and # each space. Then we make a booklet out of the cemetery with land records, marriage records, death records obits, census records and tie the families together. We are doing this in Jackson Co, Mo and in Johnson Co, KS. Don't make such a big deal of getting money!! You don't need it. Just get a scout group to volunteer to clean the cemetery once a year in the spring or fall, before and after snakes & chiggers are out. Or 4-H clubs, HS National Honor Society, etc. or church groups. Its a matter of National Pride to keep the cemeteries in good shape and not be covered over. My kids & grandkids went with us to clean an old cemetery on my Dad's farm none of our relatives are buried there but we wanted it preserved. If a cemetery is really grown over it might take a group with grown-ups a couple of Saturdays to get it in shape, then a group can clean it easily once or twice a year. Be sure and don't try to do it in the summer in MO. it's too hot and humid. Please take photos before and after and if it is a real small cemetery record what you can and turn the info into the local Historical Society or the State Archives for that state. Thanks for listening!! Orita Powell Kirkman lineage@lds.net