This may be the last Saturday that we can get out for this summer the way the weather is going, but some of us will again be out reading the markers, trying to preserve the information on them before vandals and weather make it impossible. (We will continue on alternating weekends as long as the weather holds...or until we're done.) We are reading the markers trying to preserve the information carved there before it is gone forever. Markers often have information that is NOT in cemetery interment records such as wedding dates, birth places, birth dates, spouses' names, children's names, clues to religious affiliation, military units, lodge or union affiliations, etc. Some of the markers at Prospect Hill are in German, and we have even found one in Welsh so far. Some of the names on these stones are names you will recognize from the streets and schools of Omaha. Meet at 9:30 in the morning, half way to the flag pole. You will need a pen or pencil (we have note pads to write down the information. (We provide tablets to write in.) You will be taught what to do if you've never done cemetery transcriptions. Useful to have along: a spray bottle for water, white chalk, a soft brush (like a large paint brush), a trowel, a grass clipper. These aren't mandatory, as some other people who come to read have their own and are usually willing to let you borrow if you need them. Since October is national Family History Month, this is one way you can help celebrate, by helping make records available to people whose families were here in the early days, since the cemetery started in the late 1850s. (And yes, there is even a marker up there that says the individual was born and died in Council Bluffs, so it has relevance to those folks across the river, even if it IS in Nebraska.) Questions: call 706-1453 or email me at _OmahaMom@aol.com_ (mailto:OmahaMom@aol.com) Hope to see you there Saturday.