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From: "Deason Hunt" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Tombstone citation
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:13:00 -0500
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I have not used GPS for gravesite location because I have understood from
researching the topic that a GPS reading can not be considered accurate to
an exact spot as small as an individual gravesite in a cemetery. Is practice
is GPS that accurate?
Deason
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Hunter Railey" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:38 PM
Subject: RE: [APG] Tombstone citation


> 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.
>
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