Cemetery Committee Information: Grand Traverse Area Genealogical Society, Michigan

     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 data being added and will be an updated 2nd 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)