Hi Nick I take you mean POMORZANY which, in 1900, was in the Zlochow administrative district and Zborow township (gmina). In Galicia you will typically find an old cemetery next to the house of worship or relatively close by. You're in luck because Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, and Jewish residents of Pomorzany all had houses of worship there. Therefore, you can consult a detailed map to find the specific locations of the three cemeteries in or around the village of Pomorzany. When it comes to finding old grave stone inscriptions, I've got some disappointing news for you. Our ancestors were rural, agrarian folks of modest means at best. They made do with what was available to them. Good stone was usually not available, but the area was covered with forests so our ancestors marked their graves with logs and wooden crosses. Wood decomposes over time, but a log or a wooden cross usually lasts longer than the person interred beneath it. In those days, it was what they had and they accepted it as good enough. For the experiences of members in my research group, stone and metal grave markers came into vogue in SE Poland only a little more than one hundred years ago, at about the turn of the 20th Century. Good stone, suitable for inscribed grave markers, still usually wasn't available. So many of the early stone markers are illegible (or nearly so) today. The local folks came up with an ingenious solution to this problem and today engraved metal plaques are affixed to most contemporary grave stones. But stone markers were and are relatively expensive so many graves were marked with metal crosses of various sizes. Sometimes you find a small engraved metal plaque attached to the cross, but just as often you won't. So, unless you are looking for information about people who died in the last hundred years or so, I think it would be much more productive to focus your research on civil and church records rather than gravestone inscriptions. In my ancestral cemetery at Straszecin, the oldest legible stone marker is for Jan Balasa, 1847-1908. (A digression: My great-grandfather's grave is marked with a zinc or aluminum plate, stamped with his memorial information, mounted on a metal post. Born 1844, died 1940, lived 96 years. Cousin Franciszek probably swiped the plate from the German Army motor pool that was stationed at Debica at that time. In my family, we "liberate" what we can.) On the other hand, if your ancestors were members of the nobility, then much more lavish accommodations were provided for their eternal rest. Often you'll find mausoleums with engraved metal plaques attached at the entrance listing the occupants interred there - sometimes for a period covering a couple hundred years. It largely depends on if the local noble estate had a change in ownership. I'm sorry to be the bearer of gloomy tidings. It seemed like a really nice idea until reality was consulted. Cheers, Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Ladanowski" <nickladanowski@videotron.ca> To: <GALICIA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:17 PM Subject: [GALICIA] Pomoryany Ukraine > Are there any websites that list cemeteries by village location. Main > interest Pomoryany Ukraine. What information is engraved on the > tombstone. > Nick Ladanowski > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? > GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >