Never underestimate the help you'll get from the cemetery office. You'll often find there are other people buried in the site, you may find the plot has been bought and sold a few times, sometimes to relatives sometimes to strangers. They may often point out other relatives buried in the cemtery you weren't aware of. In Toronto, most of the cemeteries are run under a trust and the records of all the cemteries are available at their head office; you have to book the time ahead, though, Bruce ============================================== Bruce Evans M.D. Family Physician and Technical Writer Keep your words both soft and tender, because tomorrow you may have to eat them. -----Original Message----- From: Susan J. Edminster [mailto:susaned@kendra.com] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:47 AM To: CA-ONT-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ON-CEM] Checking with the Cemetery Office Hi Everyone, What an interesting discussion! Another good reason to stop at the cemetery office is that the person you're searching for may be buried there but not have a headstone. This happened to me a few years ago and the cemetery office folks not only let us look at the records but drove us out to the unmarked grave sites. We'd never have found them except for the kindness of the office staff! Sue Edminster