When members of the Greene County Genealogical Society met last month with Jefferson city staff and council members regarding the city’s purchase of Grave Discover® software conversation turned to ways to get the cemetery administration software in the hands of those who manage township cemeteries.
The Genealogical Society is inviting all township boards to send their clerk or a representative to an informational meeting with Austin Scott of Grave Discover. The meeting is planned for Thursday, Nov. 17, at 3 pm in the basement meeting room at the Jefferson public library.
The city of Jefferson is paying $500 for the software and $10 per month in fees to manage both city cemeteries – the municipal cemetery and St Joseph Catholic cemetery. Scott said at the October meeting that it could be possible for townships to share the cost of the software.
The software not only provides a searchable data base of grave locations, but it also provides a management system for recording the sale of cemetery plots. Find-A-Grave® provides information about grave locations but not cemetery management.
At the Genealogical Society’s Nov. 5 meeting were (front, from left) Shirley Ross, Ada Ross, Bill Burkett, Bob Tucker and Ruth Consier; and (back, from left) Sharlene Ford, Shirley Clark, Annette Coil, Jean Tucker, Arlene Johnson and Cindy Wiggins. The group meets the first Saturday of every month and has an informational presentation at each meeting. Burkett did a presentation about his Confederate relatives.
