How to submit a cemetery report
If you have found a cemetery that is NOT listed with the Louisiana Cemetery Board as an ACTIVE cemetery and that contains graves 50 years of age or older, and is unkept, abandoned or neglected or otherwise UNKNOWN, a report should be filed with the Regional Louisiana Dept. of Archaeology, the Louisiana Attorney General, and the local Sheriffs office. You may find a list of contacts here. Recent updates to Louisiana cemetery law require reporting within 72 hours.
If the cemetery is ACTIVE and is accepting burials, then it falls under the jurisdiction of the Louisiana Cemetery Board. The Louisiana Cemetery Board can be contacted online, in addition to the local police, Sheriff, and Louisiana Attorney Generals office.
The online form for submission through Louisiana Cemetery Preservation website can be found here or you may send an email to louisianacemeteries@yahoo.com
Please answer as many of the following questions as possible when making a submission via email:
Cemetery Name
Parish
Driving directions
Condition description
Earliest record
Your name, address, email
Organization
Todays date
Alternate cemetery name
GIS GPS Location
Does the cemetery have a sign?
Is the cemetery access road public or private?
Are burial records available?
Source of burial records:
Source of photo:
Approximate number of internments
Overall condition of markers
Most common surnames found
Other comments
See examples: Saving Graves Louisiana Archived Reports.
http://louisianacemeteries.x10hosting.com/index/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=35:cemetery-reports&Itemid=62&layout=default
*updated links to include current cemetery reports in Louisiana and archived Saving Graves Louisiana cemetery reports.
Welcome !
This blog is for those who are interested in genealogy, history, preservation, transcriptions, photographs, and cemetery law in Louisiana. It is intended as a place of public collaboration for the preservation of our state cemeteries.
Promoting awareness is the first step to preservation.
If you are interested in contributing to the blog please use the form here or email louisianacemeteries@yahoo.com for more information.
Thank you for visiting!
If you believe you have found an abandoned cemetery, please contact the
Division of Archaeology at 225-342-8170 or archaeology@crt.la.gov.
Promoting awareness is the first step to preservation.
If you are interested in contributing to the blog please use the form here or email louisianacemeteries@yahoo.com for more information.
Thank you for visiting!
Louisiana Cemetery Preservation
If you believe you have found an abandoned cemetery, please contact the
Division of Archaeology at 225-342-8170 or archaeology@crt.la.gov.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Cemetery Reports
Since 2008 over 40 reports concerning abandoned, neglected, endangered, or unknown cemeteries in Louisiana have been made from either the newspapers or online submissions at the website. In some cases the dates of the report submission are incorrect (April 27th). They will be corrected as time allows.
Cemetery reports filed with Louisiana Cemetery Preservation through the online submission form.
Submit an abandoned, neglected, endangered, or unknown cemetery in Louisiana here.
Submit a comment about these reports or an update on a previously filed report here.
Cemetery reports filed with Louisiana Cemetery Preservation through the online submission form.
Submit an abandoned, neglected, endangered, or unknown cemetery in Louisiana here.
Submit a comment about these reports or an update on a previously filed report here.
Archived Cemetery Reports for Louisiana from Saving Graves
What's New in Louisiana Cemetery Preservation?
Louisiana Historic Cemetery Preservation Act 2010
This act was signed by the Governor of Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal, on June 29, 2010. This Act. 707 (HB 527) can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Louisiana Legislature Web Portal at the following URL:
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722528
The Act covers cemeteries that are unknown in Louisiana that are 50 years of age or older and includes isolated graves or grave sites in addition to cemeteries no longer in active use which are NOT governed under the Louisiana Cemetery Board and who are not currently under state jurisdiction. The Act defines an "abandoned cemetery" and "historic cemetery" and law pertaining to the discovery of a grave.
You may read PDF files of the Act here. This Act mandates:
This act was signed by the Governor of Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal, on June 29, 2010. This Act. 707 (HB 527) can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Louisiana Legislature Web Portal at the following URL:
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722528
The Act covers cemeteries that are unknown in Louisiana that are 50 years of age or older and includes isolated graves or grave sites in addition to cemeteries no longer in active use which are NOT governed under the Louisiana Cemetery Board and who are not currently under state jurisdiction. The Act defines an "abandoned cemetery" and "historic cemetery" and law pertaining to the discovery of a grave.
You may read PDF files of the Act here. This Act mandates:
Any person who has reason to believe he has discovered a historicA PDF contact list for Louisiana Cemetery Preservation can be found here.
cemetery or an isolated grave shall notify the department through the division within
seventy-two hours of the discovery.
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