Just got this. I guess the GNIS folks are easier to deal
with than the IRS and don't require as much "proof".
Mac
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: GNIS: Missing Cemeteries]
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:58:13 -0500
From: Eve Brennan Edwards <eedwards(a)usgs.gov>
To: mmmain(a)mac.com
CC: Bruce A Wallace <bwallace(a)usgs.gov>
Dear Mac Main:
Thank you for your 19 November 2003, email message regarding the omission
of two cemeteries in Randolph County, Indiana, from the Geographic Names
Information System (GNIS) database.
We have added records for the names Huntsville Cemetery and Buena Vista
Cemetery, and those records should be available at the website today.
Thank you for your interest in geographic names. We are grateful that you
took the time and effort to notify us and help us make the GNIS database a
better and more accurate data source. If you have any comments or
questions, please contact us.
Sincerely,
Ms. Eve Edwards
eedwards(a)usgs.gov
for gnis_manager(a)usgs.gov
523 National Center
Reston, VA 20192
703-648-4548
gnis_manager
Sent by: Roger L To: Mac Main
<mmmain(a)mac.com>
Payne cc: (bcc: Eve Brennan
Edwards/NMD/USGS/DOI)
Subject: Re: [Fwd: GNIS: Missing
Cemeteries](Document
link: Eve Brennan Edwards)
11/20/03 09:48 AM
We appreciate this information, but please refer to our previous email. We
shall investigate as time permits, but with our small staff and other
priorities, it could be days, weeks, or months before we can verify the
information. As indicated, if you can provide a verifiable citation for
these names, we can add the entries quickly.
Mac Main
<mmmain(a)mac.com> To: gnis_manager(a)usgs.gov
cc:
11/19/2003 05:35 Subject: [Fwd: GNIS: Missing
Cemeteries]
PM
To the best of my knowledge the name of the Randolph County IN
cemetery adjacent to the town of Huntsville is "HUNTSVILLE CEMETERY."
The cemetery a few miles due north of there is adjacent to the
Buena Vista Church and is named "BUENA VISTA CEMETERY.
Again, both these cemeteries are indicated on
topozone.com maps
and why they are missing from the GNIS is beyond my comprehension.
Thank you for looking into this matter and possibly adding them.
M. M. Main
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: GNIS: Missing Cemeteries
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:17:35 -0500
From: ask(a)usgs.gov
To: mmmain(a)mac.com
CC: gnis_manager(a)usgs.gov
11/19/2003
It would be helpful if you could tell us the names of the missing
cemeteries so that we can research them and add them to the GNIS database.
We have forwarded your inquiry to the USGS Geographic Names Office. You
cab contact them directly via their E-mail address: gnis_manager(a)usgs.gov
Thank you for your inquiry.
Bruce Wallace
USGS-ESIC
507 National Center
Reston, VA 20192
1-888-ASK-USGS (Toll Free)
(703) 648-5526 (Office Phone)
(703) 648-5548 (Office FAX)
bwallace(a)usgs.gov (Office E-mail)
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mmmain(a)mac.com
I love your site and thank you for making it available,
BUT.....I m into genealogy and into cemeteries and use
the GINS and don t understand how it can miss two
large cemeteries in Randolph County Indiana?
I got a list of Randolph County Indiana cemeteries to
send a friend and TWO that I know of are missing
from what I hoped would be a complete list from your
experts.
Huntsville, Randolph County Indiana has a cemetery on
the south west side of town and a few mile north of
Huntsville is the Buena Vista Church with a large
cemetery. I believe
topozone.com maps show these two
cemeteries and find it hard to believe that you do not.
Again, thanks for the great service....but this to me is
a glaring error of ommission.
Mac Main
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