Cemetery Preservation with PAAC Junior

Dig into the past in this hands-on cemetery preservation workshop with PAAC Junior.

Join us for a hands-on technical workshop in cemetery preservation with PAAC Junior! Workshop participants will learn to use Google Earth to locate cemeteries and the basics of family history research to track an ancestor through their life. 
 
This workshop is best suited to tweens and teens with some familiarity with computers and an interest in family history. Parents and guardians are encouraged to attend as well! Laptops will be provided for workshop use. 
 
PAAC Junior, established in 2009, aims to train youth in becoming advocates working to increase public awareness and activism in preserving, protecting, documenting, and restoring endangered and forgotten historic cemeteries, writing the significant histories of those interred, and publishing their findings through modern technology to youth and adults around the state of Arkansas.

As with all elements of our historic past, traditions are kept alive because they are passed down from generation to generation. But somewhere along the way, the tradition of involving our youth in the commitment and dedication to the upkeep of our family gravesites has been lost. The PAAC Junior Preservation Society is in place to ensure that the stories of our forefathers will be told and that the resting place of their ancestors will be preserved and not lost to vandals, abandonment, or developers.

Through technological tools, the world can view the plight of Arkansas Cemeteries under the leadership of PAAC/PAAC Junior Preservation Society.