Managing your Cemetery : In Review

Reviewing the required processes:

Now we have looked at all aspects of managing you cemetery's records, let’s summarise and revise by considering common practical steps. This is by no means an exhaustive list:

You have received a funeral request from the funeral director who has given you the name of the deceased and says there is already a purchased grave. They have no other details:

• Use Search to locate all existing graves or existing rights in that name
• Check the Cemetery Plan to corroborate
• You find Exclusive and Memorial Rights exist
• Satisfy yourself that the right extends to the current deceased without any further transfer or exclusive right needed
• Consider whether grave conditions permit burial
• Check you have sufficient details from funeral director (coffin size etc), and any religious or family requirements
• Use Copy to create the new funeral entry from
• Complete the Burial record entry
• Consider whether the grave position needs onsite verification
• Arrange for temporary memorial removal; use removal document (and perhaps the plot marker report)
• Instruct the grave digging team; use a grave digging notice (and perhaps plot marker report)
• Update the Cemetery Plan
• Process confirmation documents from funeral
• Issue an invoice or receipt, or transfer item to Scribe Accounts
• Process any related applications such as new exclusive rights, or additional inscription on memorial
• Make a note to check condition of reinstated memorial in due course