Hello Bev, I agree, most genealogy programs have a field to record date and place of death AND date and place of burial. I have to say that I have always assumed that the church register meant that is where the person was also buried. I do know that "churchyard" meansburials around the church precinct and that a cemetery may be adjacent to the church where most people are buried. I suppose unless there is a church record showing the plots with numbers AND if the register also states the plot number, then one could assume that the burial did take place at that particular church. It would be interesting to know if the situation is otherwise and I look forward to any corrections on my assumptions. cheers, Diane, Western Australia On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:58 AM, B. Edmonds <beverley@yourisp.com.au> wrote: > Morning List, > > For years I have wanted to ask this, but it is one of those > questions........................... > > How does everyone record a place of burial if the exact churchyard is not > known? > > Generally Family Tree Programs have spots for > Died > Buried > > For instance, if the burial is noted in a Parish Church PR, does it > necessarily mean they were buried there? In London, if a burial is listed > in > St Mary Fulham in 1857, would the child be buried there, or would just the > service be held there, and the child be taken elsewhere to be buried? > > I have just started entering in Buried [place in my program] as... Service > at St Mary Fulham, which then covers the fact that the child might just not > be buried at that Church but in another cemetery. > > Where I live, no churches have a burial ground [unless in the country > side], there is just one major cemetery and a crematorium. > > In the past, I have always just put the place of burial in the Church of > the > place the entry was found, which I know is not strictly correct unless > there > is a tombstone to prove it [or a Sexton's Book], but how else does one get > around this? > > Bev > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >