Steve Haag wrote: "yes the old St. Joseph's records do exist. Calvary
cemetery will tell you they don't but they let me copy all the plats showing
where everyone was buried. Some of the pages are burned on the edges but
they're there. My gg-grandfather...Michael Haag was buried there in 1890.
They have a new listing showing that but they don't show him on the plat
maps. They aren't that helpful but I bugged them to death. Go to Calvary and
nicely insist on seeing the old records and the new recorded ones..."
Very Interesting! I am very disappointed to hear that the
records really exist and they choose not to help. There
was no suggestion by them that anything survived to be
looked at.......
I also work with someone who would like to find a grave
in that cemetery, and the records would help her as well.
Obviously it is a non-profitable time expenditure for them.
I can understand their position, but as a genealogist I
am also appalled.
Laura