We rely on volunteers to help with a number of tasks:

1. Processing older correspondence files (unfold, take out staples, place in acid-free folders.)
2. Researching specific historical questions.
3. Indexing The Southern Cross
4. Keeping track of clergy assignments, using past issues of the Catholic Directory and new appointments.
5. Scanning photographs/documents for digital storage.
6. Photocopying newspaper articles for our files.
7. Filing of newspapers, photographs, newsletters, correspondence, and programs.
8. Preparation of cemetery index. (All the field work and computer entries for this project accomplished by volunteers.)
9. Responding to requests for genealogical information.
10. Microfilming and computerization of sacramental records.

Currently our Volunteers Include:

• Rita DeLorme,
• Betty Fogarty,
• Annette Moylan,
• Patricia Persse,
• Sister Virginia Ross, CSJ,
• Georgia Spellman,
• Gloria Stettler,
• Mimi Wright.

Working with the Catholic Cemetery Preservation Society and with the Cemetery Inventory projects are

• Joe Counihan,
• Tommy Brunson,
• Dr. Frank Rizza,
• Walter Schaaf,
• Nancy Schreck and
• Jack Jaugstetter.

For photos showing volunteers at a recent gathering at the home of Bishop J. Kevin Boland, at Isle of hope, please Visit the Archives Volunteers Gallery. Those shown are: Walter Schaaf, David O'Leary, Betty Fogarty, Georgia Spellman, Rita DeLorme. At the office: Betty Fogarty, Rita DeLorme, Georgia Spellman. To volunteer, call us at (912) 201-4070