Hi Pete >From my experience: Burial records are by date of burial, at least for cemeteries. I think that the grave records, showing who is buried in each grave, are with the cemeteries office - they will need these when further burials are requested. Allerton cemetery opened in 1909. Cheers, Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:54 PM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Liverpool Records Office - Question about Burialrecords organisation. > > Hello, > We've planned a visit to Liverpool records office very shortly. I've > heard conflicting things about how the burial records are organised. A > lady at the records office said they're organised in terms of surname. > However online I read that they're in order of burial date, which sounds > more likely. Can anybody shed some light on what to expect? I'm taking all > the documention and findings with me but wondered if a little extra prep > somewhere might pay off. > > A couple of questions if I may. > > We know the exact date of death and cemetery of one particular family > member. Assuming that we find the burial record, will it then show who > else is buried in the same plot? > > If we know the exact date of death of a family member, and that it was in > Garston, but not the burial place, how easy is it to look through various > cemetery records to try to find it? I'm assuming that with it being > Garston and 1899 the first place to look would be Allerton Cemetery. > > Pete > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >