This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1504.1 Message Board Post: At early dates like that most people were buried on their own land. Unfortunately not many of the markers survived --- and actually many probably were "field stones", not the tombstone marker with dates on them. Some of those "family cemeteries" did survive though...but you might look for where they actually lived and owned land.