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From: "Sandra E. T. Duncan" <>
Subject: [CAMendocino] Fw: [MO-CEM] Sent to Cemetery Restoration site
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:17:09 -0800


And I am forwarding this to some of the sites I am on , in order to get the
word out
HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL
SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN Sacramento, CA
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=purplevw1&I11.x=17&I11.y
=7

http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm
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Subject: [MO-CEM] Sent to Cemetery Restoration site


> I thought this site might like to read this also. This was written in
> response to input on another list.
> I have read so much in this column about care in obtaining information
from
> stones. I will tell you it is important to leave the stones in good shape,
> but the awful truth is that transcription and publication of that
information
> is the best way to insure the dead will not be forgotten. I have been
> involved in the restoration of many of my ancestors stones but the best
part
> of that was the transcription of the information for records.
> Bill and Dorothy Williams of Morgan County, Missouri spent some three
years
> of their retirement transcribing the whole county and the transcription is
> one of the most noble contributions to genealogy that I have witnessed. We
> need more researchers like them.
> Some stones that are lying on the ground will be lost in time and they
need
> to be cleaned and restored with an angle iron process that surrounds the
> stone with iron attached with iron bolts. I have had this done to one
whole
> family cemetery from the early 1800s and also other stones in small
> cemeteries where my direct ancestors are buried. Some born in the 1700s.
Care
> and interest is the main thing. Be gentle with researchers and encourage
them
> to publish their findings for those that will never find that grave in the
> middle of a cow pasture. We are all after the same thing and that is to
honor
> our dead ancestors and connect to them in some small way.
>
> It is a good thing to donate a few dollars to the upkeep of old
cemeteries
> or restoration of old stones. By doing that you are ensuring that the next
> generation of genealogists will be able to see their ancestors stones.
When I
> donate I think of it as a birthday or Christmas gift to the ancestor that
> made my life possible.
>
> Merry Christmas to all of the volunteers in Morgan County. Thank you for
all
> your hard work on behalf of those of us who research there. I appreciate
all
> of you!!!
>
> Bonnie Morris Conrad
>
>
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