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CEMETERIES |
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| The cemetery
project for 2002 / 2003 is being undertaken at the Golden Grove
Cemetery. The volunteers involved in the research are Carole Simmonds,
Peter Buckerfield, Daina Pocius, Mike Talbot, Margaret Driscoll
and Beryl Jolly.
Many thanks to two
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| Preservation
of Headstones Preserving our local headstones is important. Due to various negative aspects such as erosion, vandalism and changing laws, once the inscriptions from these headstones is lost, so is a certain amount of local heritage and history. The importance of these
inscriptions to the community is the history that is virtually carved in
stone. They tell of who these people were in our community, how they
lived and died, their ages and on very early headstones where they came
from. The information
gathered from these inscriptions can be used to assist other historical
projects being done by the Tea Tree Gully & District Historical
Society and for access by people in the community doing their own family
history, etc. Transcribing the headstones will be done by digitally photographing each headstone. In order for the inscription to stand out, they will be carefully chalked, sprayed with water and brushed. Once the digital photos have been taken , the disks will then be downloaded to a computer at the Tea Tree Gully Library.
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