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Subject: [GM-L] Putting a Cemetery online
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:44:11 EDT

Dear Joel,

I think the priest is mistaken. I know that they can refuse to let you see
the parish record, but I don't see how they can claim that tombstone
inscriptions are private. That's ludicrous. If the information was really
private, it wouldn't have been put on a stone in the first place! One
doesn't put "private" information on a stone in the middle of a field and
then say, "Don't tell anyone." There is no reasonable expectation of privacy
there.

Sarah

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