Cemetery Committee Project GTAGS MI

More GTAGS Links to be added Grand Traverse MIGenWeb Cemetery and Obituary Film List		Cemetery Committee Projects Since 1979 GTAGS has contributed over 1,800 genealogy books, many reels of microfilm and a number of CD-ROMS to the library. Film Project List.	Oakwood City Cemetery Eighth Street Traverse City, Michigan
Michigan Grand Traverse Map GT MichMarkers Michigan Genealogist MI Access Genealogy Cyndi's List Michigan DiBean's MI Mar Index Everything Michigan Internet Genealogy Maritime History Great Lakes MI Poor Houses MI School Records MI Historical Women MIYesterday MultiMag Michigan Michigan Archives Social Security	Area Counties Antrim County Benzie County Kalkaska County Leelanau County Current Projects Oakwood Cemetery Data Research Cemeteries Grand Traverse County Traverse City Photos Cemetery Photos Grand Traverse Land Political Graveyard NMC Newspapers	Cemeteries has been and still is an ongoing project of Grand Traverse County of GTAGS. The Society is constantly updating the cemetery information for Leelanau and Grand Traverse Counties as data is found or submitted. Leelanau has been done and sold out although there is more major being accumulated on an ongoing basis. A second printing in approximately 1-1/2 - 2 years GTAGS is in need of volunteers to assist in the projects listed below. Volunteers may select a project that may be completed in a week, month, single year or a project may require several years to complete. If you have time, limited or a lot, available, please consider helping on one of these committees. Some ways to assist the Society: Kathi Farley, Cemetery Committee Chair. WALK OAKWOOD CEMETERY 1) To read and extract headstones by writing down the data..
		CEMETERY PUBLICITY 1) Compiling and maintaining a current mailing list. 2) Mailing out project fliers. These can be done by 2 separate people if needed
		OBITUARY COLLECTION 1) Clip obits from newspapers from Grand Traverse and Leelanau county papers 2) If person who lived outside the area but is buried here we want that obit. 3) A person is needed to search newspapers for the obituaries. 4) A person for clipping the obituaries. 5) For pasting them on 4 x 6 cards. 6) File obits into an ongoing alphabetical file.
		COMPUTER RESEARCH Again, a volunteer can do any or all of the items below. Verification is critical of information on Cemetery forms using various online databases, such as: 1) Grand Traverse County Death Records 2) Grand Traverse County Marriage Records 3) Michigan Death Index (1971-1996), 4) Social Security Death Index 5) Michigan Gendis (1867-1897)

	Grand Traverse Area Genealogical Society POB 2015 Traverse City, MI 49685-2015 GTAGS Home Serving Northern Michigan counties: Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, and Leelanau.