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