Hi, I've been "listening in" on the cemetery subject and while I am certainly NOT an expert I do have some experience in stirring up the natives! Get petition drives going. Go door to door, asking people if they are aware of what's happeninng. Have public meetings, WELL-ADVERTISED, abd be SURE to invite the people you're contending with. Do you have a local paper? Pick someone who really KNOWS the subject matter and give them an interview. Radio stations around? Give interviews there, too. Make sure the main person doing the speaking is extremely knowledgable and NEVER ASK A QUESTION THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO! I don't know if this will work for you, it DID work for me! And, 5 nuclear plants bit the dust! Not only that, our P.U.D. customers got their money back! I'd love to take credit for all of that, but many, many people worked on it. Good Luck to all of you. If I lived in Hanover I'd be out there helping! [email protected] our P.U.D. customers got their money back! doing the speaking ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [VAHANOVE] Information regarding the cemetery fiasco at PebbleCreek in Hanover County, VA > Sheri > GO GIRL! > The one thing people doing wrong hate is publicity and lots of it. The worst > part is not persuing ALL AVENUES(not just the minimum to comply with the > letter of the law) to try and find the relatives > > I will say this...Tommy Naumann of Burress Vaults has done this for > YEARS(his father in law before him) sooo his company are experts and they > ,of course, were just hired to do the job. Im sure he could have done a > better job at determining what was there than a funeral home director. The > equiptment they use may seem crude to some but i think they know what they > are doing and what to look for.The important thing,if the graves are to be > relocated is get everything they can at the site to transfer to a new > hopefully secure site. > > The important part of this move of the graves is to find out as many names > and information as possible sooo the families(if they are found )will have > some kind of peace. and a place to gather if they want to.This was evidently > NOT done!!!!!!!! We have all heard the horror stories of contractors,upon > finding graves,just covered them over and did not contact officials because > they didn't want to be delayed. > > I am the "caretaker" of my old family cemetery in Wva ...when im gone,i > don't know what will happen to the cemetery.Sooo ,the lesson here is...ALL > families should think long and hard about their own old family cemeteries > and make some kind of advance plans so this will not happen to them. > > Did anyone contact the Oscar Via and Snydor families??Just wondering!!! > > Carol in Hanover > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:49 PM > Subject: Re: [VAHANOVE] Information regarding the cemetery fiasco at > PebbleCreek in Hanover County, VA > > > >Lyn & everyone, > > > > I've just gotten off the phone with Channel 8 (Richmond television > >channel) who has now sent a reporter out to the area as well. I'm not > >thrilled about being involved with the media by any means, but whatever it > >takes to save our history I'm willing to do. I would suggest for anyone > and > >everyone to call, email, or write to those email addresses sent earlier and > >express your concern. > > I'll be glad to keep you all posted, but it looks as if there is a > >strong interest on this subject now. > >Sheri > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Lyn" <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:21 AM > >Subject: Re: [VAHANOVE] Information regarding the cemetery fiasco at > >PebbleCreek in Hanover County, VA > > > > > >> Sheri, > >> > >> For those of us are no longer living in the area, it is reassuring to > >> know someone in the area still cares to fight the fight. Thank you so > >> much for sharing this info. > >> > >> Genealogy is more than names & dates. It is recognizing and respecting > >> the gifts of our forefathers. In the case of Hanover County & > >> surrounding areas, our forefathers were also the forefathers of our > >> nation. The gift is the freedom we all enjoy today. Many of us had > >> forefathers in the area long before the English arrived. > >> > >> The road was not without bloodshed, but that is where the foundation was > >> laid. > >> > >> Off my soapbox > >> Lyn > >> (List manager) > >> > >> > >> ============================== > >> To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > >go to: > >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >> > > > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >