Next Frederick County Genealogical Meeting is Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 1 pm. Visit www.frecogs.com for more details and for directions to our meeting location. FUNERAL PRACTICES AND OBITUARY NOTICES. Speaker is Keith Roberson of Keeney & Basford Funeral Home. Keith will talk about the state vital records and probably tell stories about experiences he's had while making arrangements and gathering information for obits and for the required records. He'll discuss the differences in death notices and obituaries and between requirements for the Frederick Post and the Washington Post. Keith will cover the vast differences in records required in different states, provide info on a national website for obtaining death certificates (for example, states now requires ethnicity, education level, and a lot more -- which survivors often do not know and may fudge creating errors for future genealogists.) There will be a handout about writing obits. Keith is a native of Frederick County and grew up in Walkersville, where he graduated from Walkersville High School in 1980. He attended Frederick Community College, and received his Mortuary degree from Catonsville Community College Mortuary Science Program in 1984. He serves on the Board of the Frederick County Chapter of the American Red Cross; has been actively involved in the Saint John’s Cemetery Restoration and current Oversight committee.