Hi Gail,
I think this topic is very fruitful for the CC's, beings so many of them
want to get their cemeteries listed.
Yes, on most of the listings for the Tombstone Project there are only names
and dates, but don't let that hold you back. You put as much information as
you can on your listings.
For the most part, the listings that the CC's are able to obtain are from
previous readings. As you know, some of our CC's don't live in their County,
so they have to depend on whatever resources they can find or on what their
researchers send them.
I am now in the process of re-doing one of my cemeteries because I happened
upon more information. I am not only listing the sections, etc., but I also
found an old map of the cemetery that I hope to scan and put online.
So my suggestion is to put as much information online as you possibly can.
If there is no plot map, can you make one? Given the data that you already
have, you may be able to sketch a map. One of our researchers was unable to
get a plot map so she drew her own. I would send you the URL of it but can't
get into the net right now.
KAren
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gail Meyer Kilgore" <gkilgore(a)primenet.com>
To: <COGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [COGEN] Cemetery Records
I was going to take this talk on cemeteries to the CO-Cemeteries mail
list
as I am not sure this topic should be talked about on this list but maybe
it
is good info for other CC's.
I started out trying to write the Sections, Blocks, Grave #'s as best I
could. Then I saw where people were just listing names and dates on the
Tombstone project.
What I have here is.... no maps, one time the city owned the cemetery,
then
the mortuary, then another mortuary and another, when I asked for
maps,
there are none. There are suppose to be markers out there for Block
locations, they are all but blank. I know it is broken into sections and
can identify that as Section A and etc. but only thru these old funeral
records can I identify the block #'s and grave #'s and more times they are
not listed in block #'s or even sections.
The section that I have some funeral home records for is when there was an
old cemetery located in town. In the early 20's they moved graves from
the
old to the new and left many behind that were not marked. Many they
moved
are marked 'unknown'. The records are the burials from 1920-1929 so
anything previously there is no record and so far there are no records
from
1929 until I think about 1946. They started the new cemetery in
1916,
four
years after statehood.
We are talking about a cemetery that had a lot of Mexican burials,
crosses...no names...people were even allowed to make their own coffins,
dig
their graves and do their own burial without records. I saw one
notation
that said the family did all of the above and that the person was buried
by
such and such bush...
So, yesterday I just wrote names and dates.... as I did not see on the
pages
that I looked at on the Tombstone project that it listed all the
other
info.
By the way, the funeral home owner who moved all the graves from the old
cemetery to the new cemetery, that took over 2 years to do, went to the
county for payment on completion of the job and the next day was killed by
a
train... it is called, "Don't mess with the dead"...
Gail
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