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

<<snipped>> ...if the burial is noted in a Parish Church PR, does it necessarily mean they were buried there? ... <<snipped>> An interesting question, Bev. It comes down to "what does an entry in the burial register mean?" The last time I saw this discussed (which I thought was on this very list not so long ago), my impression of the conclusion was - an entry in the burial register means someone was buried in the churchyard belonging to that church. Exceptions to the above: - people had found entries where the only realistic interpretation was a funeral at the church owning the register in question and burial elsewhere; - the churchyard belonging to the church might no longer be at the church itself. To expand on the 2nd point, many churchyards were getting to be full during the 1800s, and extensions were opened some distance away. These were not municipal cemeteries but a cemetery belonging to the church. In that case, entries in the mother church's burial register continue even though new burials take place on the new site. (And the old churchyard could continue to be used for new burials in existing graves...) The only way I know to find out if this is the case is to look at church histories - with GENUKI being the starting point. What I do is work from the assumption that an entry in the burial register means someone was buried in the churchyard belonging to that church unless I know that an "extension" churchyard was opened elsewhere, in which case I'll either record burial at the new place if it's clear from the dates that was the only option, or I'll omit the burial but record a _funeral_ at the church. What I should probably do is record the assumption that's where the burial was, if I have one. For churches with no graveyard but an entry in their burial register, it has to be recording a funeral at the church. (I can create my own events in my software). But I think this case in unusual in the UK. Adrian B