Peter Kivett Family Association, Inc.

 An IRS-Recognized Non-Profit 501 (c) 3 Educational Charity, EIN 46-0500366

07/27/09   

©2005 PKFA, Inc.

Public Service Opportunities We Offer...

I. Cemetery and Tombstone Projects

The Peter Kivett Family Association, Inc. (PKFA) welcomes volunteers to locate and cleanup abandoned colonial historical community cemeteries.  These cemetery projects provide activities to preserve, restore, photograph, document, and beautify them with landscaping or fencing.  The ultimate mission is to preserve and maintain these historic cemeteries as a teaching laboratory for the descendants of those buried within the cemetery regardless of family surname lineages as a public service.  The PKFA teachers will provide educational demonstrations of how to locate hidden graves, plot the rows of graves, record readable tombstones, perform tombstone rubbings, restore tombstones, and preserve tombstones for various family lineages as a public interest community service.  A Mobile Global Positioning System (GPS) is used to take readings and record geographical locations of these abandoned historical cemeteries.  Cemetery and tombstone readings and documentation will be entered into local county public access Websites including applicable associated land deeds.  These cemetery records will also be made available to other nonprofit historical and genealogical organizations as a public interest community service.  Weather always governs the scheduling for any work shop or teaching activities in these cemeteries. Please contact any PKFA Board of Director member to make arrangements to participate in a cemetery or tombstone project. See the www.peterkivett.org  for the current on-going Old McMasters Cemetery Project

II. Genealogical Computer Training.

 As a public interest service we also offer instructors, speakers,  lectures and teachers for oral and audio visual presentations and training of family genealogical research skills at all levels. This includes training  in the use of genealogical software, computer and web based research techniques, GEDCOM imports and exports,  use of National Genealogical Society (NGS) standards, and how to build a proper bibliography based on your research sources. We would like to help you learn how to collect your family heritage and research collateral families. If you request, we will show you how to properly document them, preserve them and publish them from beginners' workshop levels to training for accomplished professionals.

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III. Educational Meetings.

The PKFA goal is to sponsor six educational lecture meetings per year two field trips and one annual meeting the fourth weekend in October each year at the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church fellowship hall near Liberty, NC. As a public interest service all meetings are open to visitors, senior citizen groups, historical and genealogical societies, church groups and anyone interested in learning how to do their family genealogy regardless of the surname of interest. We also invite experts to address and instruct attendees on some aspect of genealogical and family research as a public interest service.  Our meetings will be announced on the Peter Kivett Family Association website, USPS mail and by E-mail. We always welcome non-members to attend our meetings.

In the future a new online photo presentation will be added with pictures from PKFA, Inc. Events, Meetings, Cemeteries, Ancestors, Tombstones, etc.

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