Helpful Hints for Recording Cemeteries A few people have e mailed me asking about doing cemeteries and for suggestions. I hadn't done enough to offer advice then but now have tried some things that work. Get some chalk and mark each one that you copy. Try to section the cemetery so that you can still keep track of where you've been. If in doubt then recopy the ones that you have doubt about. Its better to double copy than to leave out the one that someone might need. Here in Bell Co. the cemeteries are over grown with weeds, briars, bushes and trees. Some parts may be clean and another 100 may be in the overgrowth, so look. I hope that I'm generating enough interest so that other counties will start to do what I'm doing. Another thing that would help would be an indexing program to get them in alphabetical order then you could check for doubles and people could find kin folks easy. As you can see I don't have. I start at the county line and work down it getting every cemetery. How do I find these? I bought topo maps from the state of KY, which have all the old cemeteries on them and when I'm at one I go to the closest house and ask if they know of any more in the area. If not who is the oldest person living in this area, and I go ask them. I haven't had but two people to refuse me to copy a family Cemetery. A lady had her husband buried in the back yard and said she didn't want people knowning she was still alive. Another with 6 buried thought that the names would be used for illegal purposes. Over all everyone thinks it is a very good ideal. I'm marking the topo maps and will have a location for future generations. I only wish that I had a way to scan or draw these locations and place them on the net. Hope this helps (if Nancy lets it through). CR CR... I wouldn't dream of not letting this thru after all you have done for Bell Co. nt Submitted by: C. Richard Matthews Date: 17 Sep 1997