| Saving Graves, the
world's leading website dedicated to the protection, restoration, and
preservation of endangered cemeteries worldwide, is a completely
free-access online resource that provides to its visitors a wide
assortment of preservation information and records. It's
primary goal is to promote and emphasize the use of the Internet as a
means to provide protection of human burial sites from unauthorized and
unwarranted disturbance, by man or nature. The offices of Saving Graves
are located at:
Saving Graves
119 S Jones Ave
Rock Hill, Sc
29730
History
The Saving Graves
website debuted on the Internet in March of 2000, as a result of a
posting to a newsgroup that mentioned new website, Save Our Old
Cemeteries, that was a part of a family history website. The subject of
endangered cemeteries being something that Bill Spurlock had long been
interested in and he offered to take over the management of the
website. He had found several websites that focused on cemetery
preservation however a search of the Internet found that there was no
single website that attempted to gather all state and national
resources. Saving Graves was created to geographically organize all
these resources. In November 2005, Bill decided to step down as
the owner of Saving Graves and turned the operation over to Steve
Stymiest of Rock Hill, South Carolina. Steve is the state
coordinator for South Carolina, North Carolina and South Dakota and the
U. S. Coordinator for Saving Graves.
Partnerships
Saving Graves is
pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic partnership
with Cemetery Records Online [http://www.interment.net/].
Under the terms of the partnership, both websites will cross-promote
and assist each other in providing information to their visitors.
For information
about
partnering with Saving Graves, please send e-mail to savinggraves@comporium.net.
Awards and
Recognition
Most people and
organizations who grant awards require you to submit your site for
recognition. We do not personally don't practice in
nominating one's own site for awards. Thus you won't find a lot of
awards here. Those who have presented us with any kind of
award or special recognition have done so purely upon their own action,
or through outside nomination.
Support
Without the support
of
visitors, we could not continue to bring you all of Saving Grave's
resources -- including our Endangered
Cemetery Listing
program -- free of charge. It you feel that the service that Saving
Graves provides is worthwhile, please consider showing your support by donating to Saving Graves.
Linking to this site
Saving Graves
maintains a "Open Link" policy. Under this policy, you may feel free to
directly link into this site at any point or page. You don't
need permission, but we would appreciate a short email just
to let us know. Use one of the provided
images,
or just copy and paste the following HTML text into your page:
<A
HREF = "http://savinggraves.org/index.htm" >Saving
Graves</A>
Feel free to use our description:
"A
collaborative effort of cemetery preservation advocates working to
increase public awareness and activism in preserving, protecting and
restoring endangered and forgotten cemeteries worldwide."
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