Supporting the Deceased

The weather has finally warmed up. It seems like summer has come overnight! With all this good fortune it's time to start getting back into cemetery work. I love to troll websites like Find A Grave to see if new information has been added to our internment record or if there are new photo requests. In the winter when the stones are covered, I may spend some time piecing together some of the different families genealogy using my handy-dandy Ancestry account. Maybe someday I'll be able to pass on my research to their decedents.

Back to spring (or quasi summer as it may be), after finding plots, stones, and where stones should be, it's time to spread the news about the annual cemetery meeting. We're not a for-profit cemetery. All of the members of the association are volunteers who spend their time maintaining and welcoming new interments. In addition, all of us are local and a large majority are family members of mine. I'm always the youngest one at these meetings and will probably end up with the most longevity as a member. Most members are middle age to elderly and some have become residents. Suffice to say, it's been difficult to recruit people to come and be part of the cemetery. We have notices in the paper, a Facebook page, AND send out notices. So the big question of the day/year is - How do you get more people involved?