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From: colleen dobrzynski <>
Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Cemetery fees for wandering
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:06:59 -0500
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Oops! www.ioc.state.il.us/

If you can't get rid of the skelton in your
closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
-George Bernard Shaw



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Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Cemetery fees for wandering
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:05:26 -0500








Did this happen in Illinois? If yes, contact the office of State Comptroller Dan Hines.
www.ioc.state.il.us



If you can't get rid of the skelton in your
closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
-George Bernard Shaw



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> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:01:51 -0400
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> Subject: [ROOTS-L] Cemetery fees for wandering
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> Thank you all for your kind and supportive thoughts and words.
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> I had been to many cemeteries in my home state of Illinois, (large family-both sides) both North and South- and this is the very first one I was asked for $$. Granted, to fulfill my request would have required the other person in the office to move the mouse from the game they were playing-- to the cemetery's database.
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> I had said it was my 2nd cousin's grave, and because I wasn't an "immediate" family member it was considered a Genealogical request, and $45.00 please. This was the first negative experience I have had with "the office". Most of my requests have been fulfilled with gracious smiles, and a willingness by the staff to help and instruct, and have even had offers from some of them to drive me to the site, in case I didn't find it- for free. I will be looking up their fees and then writing a letter to their management as a "second" cousin.
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> I believe there have been too many Public problems with cemeteries (Burr Oak for eg.) and I sure would hate to see someone else making an illegal profit off people who have nothing left but the sod over their heads.
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> Pam
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