----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> To: <genMassachusetts-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:49 AM Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Restoring Graveyards - Boy Scouts (GenealogyBadge) > Hello, > > The subject of restoring an abandoned graveyard in Lynn, MA, came up for > discussion on the MAEssex List, and someone suggested that it could > become > a project for a boy trying to become an Eagle Scout. It was mentioned > that the Boy Scouts now have a Genealogy Badge. This was my response > to > that List; I'm offering it as an FYI: > > > > I just went to the web site, and they have a "council locator." > > http://www.scouting.org/ > > Not knowing the Zip Code for Lynn, MA, I put in one I knew and came up > with > the "Yankee Clipper Council," based in Haverhill: > > http://www.yccbsa.org/ > > This page offers the list of Merit Badges which a Scout can try to obtain. > It does mention Genealogy, and also Citizenship. > > http://www.yccbsa.org/membership/whatisbs.htm > > The Haverhill Council is having a meeting on the 12th. > > Just an FYI for you. > > Betty (near Lowell, MA) > > > P.S. My husband reminded me last week that he was once part of the "Sea > Explorers" (Sea Scouts). That isn't mentioned on the above web site, > directly, but it is mentioned on the page describing the history of > "Adventuring." > > http://www.yccbsa.org/membership/venyouth1.htm > > > (I was in Girl Scouting from maybe 1st grade to maybe 12 th grade; can't > remember exact years. And, my sister is still a Scout. She is a > "Lifetime Member.") > > http://www.girlscouts.org/ > > ** Come to think of it, why can't "girls" take on a graveyard- > restoration project ?? ** > > I don't see a badge for Genealogy, but I noticed a Heritage Hunt and a > Generations badge. > > http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_central/insignia/list/11_17.asp > > > P.S.2 There is a School project in Dracut which was formed to try to > restore an old graveyard lost in the woods on the Lowell / Dracut line. > I > have not seen an update on that project. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENMASSACHUSETTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >