Good evening cemetery listers every-where ... Our List Administrator Sheila is very grateful for our support. In a private communication with me, she has asked me to do a couple of things to create some new topics of interest for us to discuss ... One of the questions that Sheila asked of me was: "How many cemeteries have you been to and could I name them and give their location." Well Sheila and fellow listers, after I stopped laughing, with tears running down my face, I called my Mom Audrey into my office and she too went into quite a giggle fit ... Ok, long story made sort of short ... one of my first genealogical pilgrimages was in the fall of 1966 to try and locate the grave of my mother's paternal grandmother in Prospect cemetery, here in Toronto - and the rest they say is history ... I should mention that I have ancestors (ANCESTORS, not relatives)buried in the counties of Lanark, Ontario, York, Halton, Peel, Wentworth, Wellington, Grey, Bruce, Lincoln and Lambton) as well as in the provinces of New Brunswick, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, and the states of New Jersey, Missouri, Michigan - so my connections, and hence interests, are wide and varied. As to the actual number of cemeteries that I have been "in" (above and below ground I might add!!!! but hey those are stories for another day)- that number is incalculable, and it is certainly in thousands ... I know that one of my best friends (Bill Patton) and I went to 25 different cemeteries in one day in the Halton - Peel - Hamilton - Niagara area a number of years back. We kept a record ... Started at about 7:00 a.m., and was home after midnight. Bill Patton and I, along with my mother Audrey Gilchrist, and family friend Brenda Cook are founding and honorary members of a very exclusive and select genealogical group called "The Crypt Crawlers Association of Canada" (CCAC, for short, and it is not connected with the wonderful nursing assistance programme Community Care Access). Membership is predicated on you having been at least eight feet underground in a cemetery in a family owned vault - in other words in an under ground crypt! Conservatively there are about 4,500 burial grounds known to exist in Ontario and I would dare assert that I have been in over 2,000 or more of them over the past 38 years that I have been doing research. I have been in cemeteries from Windsor to Glengarry, up through North Bay and Sudbury, and as far north as Thunder Bay. As to the number of transcripts that I have, again I have no idea but a ball park estimate might be around 400 different transcriptions - So, enough about me... can I now pose a question for the list? Have any of you been in more than 25 cemeteries in one day? Cheers! J. Brian Gilchrist Etobicoke