As luck would have it.....I've had a similar experience with one of our old cemeteries. Except the problem they had was not only were the books old....they were/are incomplete. The Funeral director & current owner of the cemetery was willing to allow me to look at the records (I haven't done so yet). What suggestions or ideas have been talked about between you & the funeral home? Most of them are usually willing to work with you if it will also benefit them (I am going to "try" to publish a book on our cemetery). For me, I was/am willing to do a lot of leg & hand work to get as much accurate info. for them/me as I could? Maybe they'd be willing to let you look at the records or make copies of the records to put them back in book form, scan them to put them on the computer & on a CD? That way they could put the original records away & have a "copy" available for the public to look through w/o fear of further damage being done? Hope this is "new" help idea :) Alli ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vickie Neill Taylor" <flip@okplus.com> To: <OKGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 4:32 AM Subject: [OKGEN ] Funeral Records Lost To Time! > Hi List, > I had a very sad trip to Holdenville yesterday. I went over to the > funeral home to do a little research. It appears that all of the records > dating back before 1927, have pretty much been lost to time. The books are > still there, but they are in such poor shape that they wouldn't allow me to > use them. > I am trying to work out something with them to some how record the > information and at least save it to disks or something to keep the > information available for use. > If you have any ideas, please let me know. Rebinding the books would be > so expensive that it is kind of out of the question, there is a shelf full > of them. How can I help them to preserve the information in the books? I'm > certainly open to suggestion here. > With this in mind, your might want to consider speaking with your > neighboring funeral homes to see if the same fate might be about to happen. > Maybe this problem can be avoided to other records. > > > Vickie Neill Taylor > flip@okplus.com > > > ==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== > Oklahoma Vital Records Information - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/vital/vital.html > Oklahoma Census Records - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/census.htm > >