for volunteers
The Ancient Cemetery Project Volunteers have contributed countless hours of their time and effort to help preserve and document Ancient Cemetery's oldest grave markers.
This is the fifth year of an on-going volunteer effort to clean, photograph and record information from gravestones in the older section of Ancient Cemetery.
Volunteers were recruited and trained by conservation mentors, and by 2022 cleaned more than 1,100 gravestones and documented more than 1350 records of individuals.
2024 Annual Volunteer Kick-Off
Sunday April 7th at 2:30 pm at the Town of Yarmouth Department of Public Works building will be the Annual ‘Kick-Off’ gathering of the Friends. There will be food, fun, friends and a review of your accomplishments in 2023. And more. Please RSVP to let us know if you can attend by March 22nd so we know how many to expect. It helps us plan!
The Project is maintained by twenty volunteers actively working in the Cemetery, and by several volunteer genealogists. Participants are equipped with cleaning supplies, particularly D2-- the approved biological solution used to safely clean gravestones.
The Friends of Ancient Cemetery Volunteers are a wonderful, dedicated group of individuals, each of whom contribute a great deal of energy and commitment.
Daffodils bloom in Ancient Cemetery because volunteer Deb Bianchi helped us plant 100 daffodil bulbs in the Fall, 2020, which has now become an annual tradition.
our tireless dedicated hard working group of volunteers, 2021