That Moment in Time: FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th Oct 2018

Genealogists love cemeteries and traveling to find ancestors final resting places. On October 3 the United States Supreme Court heard a case Knick v Township of Scott which should be of interest to genealogists. In this case a landowner doesn't want to comply with a local cemetery-access law and permit genealogists, among others, on her land to visit graves buried there in a private cemetery.

Mrs. Knick owns the property since 1970 where genealogist Robert Vail found his ancestor Micah Vail is buried. He wants to visit the grave site and honor his ancestor. There are other relatives buried there going back to the Revolutionary War. While Mrs. Knick denies a cemetery is on her 90-acre property she believes she should be paid by the government or visitors to visit the property. Under an ordinance in Scott Township, Pennsylvania, landowners must provide daytime access to cemeteries on private land or else face a fine. But Knick, not wanting to open her private property to the public, has refused.

Knick sued the township in 2003 and the Court of Common Pleas dismissed her case as have the US District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She contends the ordinance violates her Fifth Amendment right to "just compensation " for public use of her land.

The US Supreme Court will weigh in on a procedural matter, not whether Vail or others may access the cemetery. The procedural question the Supreme Court will weigh is whether a pre-existing court decision should affect how landowners like Knick file complaints about federal taking claims. Under the Supreme Court’s ruling in Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank (1985), landowners suing about federal land seizures have to go through the state courts before filing in federal courts.

Because of the Williamson decision, Knick was not able to file in federal court as she preferred. For Knick to win the Supreme Court would have to overturn Williamson. A decision is not expected until June 2019.

Access issues to cemeteries vary by state and jurisdiction. Pennsylvania, for example, mandatesthat property owners grant individuals “reasonable ingress and egress to a burial plot.” (So even if a court strikes down the Scott Township ordinance, Knick may still have to comply with this state law.)

To read the Knick v Township of Scott Pennsylvania case see:

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/knick-v-township-scott-pennsylvania/

Thank you to FamilyTree Magazine for informing us about this case. To read their article see:

https://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/genealogy_research_strategies/cemetery-research/supreme-court-cemetery-access-law/

The British Red Cross Museum and Archives has launched a new online database of historic artifacts. Of the museum's 56,000 items, the database includes 28,752 items, including letters, posters, photographs and films. It covers the past 150 years of work of the British Red Cross. Items will be added to the database if they are permitted to do so under the data protection laws.

The database is searchable by keyword, name, type of object and color.

To search the database go to: https://museumandarchives.redcross.org.uk/explore

They also have a collection of World War ll Prisoners of War which can be searched at: https://tinyurl.com/y8a58rna

Original url:

https://museumandarchives.redcross.org.uk/objects?query=highlight%3A%22prisoners%22&sort=highlight_prisoners&searchType=highlight

To read more about the new collection see: https://tinyurl.com/ycnkh4kr

Original url:

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/british-red-cross-launches-internationally-important-online-archives-database

The British Red Cross previously published a searchable database of records of its First World war –Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs).

It is best to search the museum archives database https://museumandarchives.redcross.org.uk/explore and put World War l into the search field.

VITAL IMPORTANCE

Nearly One-Third of Death Certificates List Wrong Cause of Death (IAJGS Public Records Access Alert)

Death certificates ae critical documents for genealogists, especially when tracing back genetically-inherited diseases. A recent article in OZY states that nearly one-third of death certificates list the wrong cause of death.

See: https://www.ozy.com/acumen/a-whopping-1-in-3-death-certificates-list-wrong-cause-of-death/89516

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2 comments:

Textile RangerOctober 20, 2018 at 12:54 PM
Thank you for all your links! It is a Friday night and I am too tired to actually accomplish anything,so I have been sitting here watching Irish dancers dance to Thriller, and the Tullamore Dew ad, looking at the medieval book pages used in clothing and the book that opens six ways, and reading about the lovely hand-stitched dress honoring an artist's aunt. I feel refreshed!
CrissouliOctober 20, 2018 at 5:18 PM
That is all so good to hear... now you can imagine how distracted I get when reading/watching all these while researching. What an Aladdin's cave we enter when surfing the internet. I try to cover as many different avenues as I can, not just genealogy, as we all need to widen our horizons sometimes.
Thank you so much for commenting, it makes all those hours worthwhile.

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