Hi Ruth, I just got back from Pictou County myself and am catching up on the email backlog. Hope you enjoyed yourself as much as I did! I noticed in your email that you were searching through Riverton Cemetery as well as Elgin. I happen to be looking through these two cemeteries as well for my ggg grandparents, Simon and Ann Fraser. I'm beginning to think I will never find their burial place. In addition to the Richie records who recorded the Elgin Cemetery as two cemeteries, PH-07 and PE-07, there is an inscription by Donald F. Maclean in "Headstone Transcriptions from the Old Elgin Cemetery". This is at NSARMS with reference number F5249 E29 M163. The folks at the archives may do a lookup for you if you ask them a specific question that can easily be looked up. (If you haven't looked in Dr. Marble's book "Death, Burial and Probate" (I think the title is) I can do a lookup for you here in Toronto. Just let me know the name(s) and approximate death dates. Last Tuesday I took a walk through Riverton Cemetery. As a youngster in the 1960s when the one room school house was still at the base of the hill, I used to play in the cemetery on lunch hour . (You may have noticed an odd little driveway that comes in from the road at the cemetery entrance, curves around, and then joins the main road again. The school was at the bend in the driveway.) Anyways as a kid I had noticed that there were a number of gravestones laying about at the bottom of the hill opposite the school. I don't know if those were ever recovered and placed back in the cemetery. I noticed too, that at the rear of the cemetery where a lot of early settlers were buried (many Falconers) that a lot of the stones that existed when I was a kid are now gone. In addition, there is not one iron marker left. A few graves had these iron markers placed at their graves, but even in the 1960s the names of the deceased were no longer present on them. So, I think a lot of information has been lost forever regarding many people buried in the cemetery. Sorry to sound so pessimistic..... All the best, Rick MacNeil