Hi Estelle, What a FANTASTIC idea!! as someone who works in the cemetery/ funeral industry it is something I have certainly never seen recorded. I know the Toowong Cemetery in Brisbane is laid out by measurement.. that is to say.. .grave size. Using the old imperial measurements a single grave is a 9ft Long by 5ft Wide. Most modern cemeteries use 8ft by 4ft so as to not waste space. Luckily cemetery maps in this case survive and so do the burial registers... I have seen other cemeteries that are not so lucky and thus the problems we all have locating our loved ones!! Perhaps this is a recommendation that needs to be made to the registrar general... for the sake of future family historians!! Although with the digital age... will we even have certificates anymore?? in say 50 years?? I would certainly say that people involved in smaller cemeteries could imbrace technology and record the GPS points of their graves when digitising their records.. with some 115,000 graves it would take a monumental effort to do Toowong Cemetery!! or those even larger like Rookwood in NSW.. YIKES!! Anyway, Thanks for the Fantastic suggestion.. ill be sure to bring it up at our next meeting and see what the response is! Cheers Sue. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Estelle Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Hello Listers,Just following the discussion regarding the Lang Park > burials and thinking a bit more on the topic of locating graves...I'm > wonder why cemetery plot/niche wall numbers are not recorded on Death > Certificates along with the name of the cemetery where the remains are > interred? From my limited experience in this area, Burial Registers or > cemetery maps - the only records of individuals' exact burial sites - as > kept by Councils, Churches, etc seem to have had variable survival rates. > If the plot co-ordinates relative to the cemetery of burial were briefly > recorded by the undertaker on the Death Certificate at the time of burial, > this would stand the test of time, as long as the death was registered. > Even though the details given to the undertaker by relatives for entry on > the Death Certificate can be questioned at times, the official and medical > information is not subjective. Does anyone else have any thoughts on > this...or is this information already recorded "! > behind the scenes", and not published with a certificate? Estelle > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any > reply...... Thank you! > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >