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From: "James Hunter Railey" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Tombstone citation
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:38:20 -0500
In-Reply-To: <006c01c579ac$4c8fde80$3b00a8c0@Traveler>


Craig,

Of course some day each and every cemetery will be gone and row numbers will
be of no consequence. Of course today's genealogist includes, with their
transcription and digital photo, longitude and latitude. That way our
descendants five hundred years from now can go right to the gravesite. So
much of our work has to do with place. Got GPS?

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig R. Scott [mailto:]
Sent: 25 June, 2005 12:35 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [APG] Tombstone citation


> In my early genealogy years, I recorded cemeteries with citations
> similar
> to
> that provided for Henry, but alas, I've not been able to locate that stone
> some twenty years latter. Oh, If, I'd only recorded the row number.

In those cases, where a cemetery has not been published, and there is no
plot map or other apparent locating tool or lot identification is there an
accepted method for identification of the row? I can imagine returning to a
cemetery twenty years later with the row number and still being unable to
locate the correct row. The row number is a function of its relationship to
some point in the cememtery (a.k.a. row 1). But how do you know where row 1
is located.

C.

Craig R. Scott, CGRS
President & CEO
Heritage Books, Inc.
65 East Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157


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