Dot, I can understand how you feel about maps or incomplete directions. But let me speak up for Walter--after all anyone named Walter can't be all bad. He is giving you the Latitude and Longitude coordinates for the cemeteries. Thus GA>334455N833857E (estimate), Monroe 7,5 > map sheet "Monroe", I believe, refers to Latitude North 33degrees 44minutes 55 seconds and Longitude 83 degs 38 min 57 secs on the USGS (United States Geological Survey map "Monroe 7,5". If you will order several of these maps for Walton County, what this does is literally pinpoint the location of the cemetery in question. The USGS sectional maps are quite detailed with aerial photogrammetry overlays showing individual houses and buildings, new roads and old roads. I have a number of these maps for Gwinnett County that have proved to be quite helpful on occasion. Now to give someone road directions in that area--especially to someone unfamiliar with the area--means that one assumes that all of these country roads have road signs. Not by a long shot! A local may know the name of the road and they may not, since roads quite frequently change names as they run along. On the other hand, I do have to admit that since "911" came to that area there are a lot more road signs and street names than ever before not to mention house numbers prominently displayed. With the map, if you do become "temporarily" disoriented, you can have a local point out to you on the map where you are and where the cemetery you are trying to reach is on the map. Very handy. The other advantage of having the coordinates and working with the USGS maps is that you can plan your route very efficently no matter which direction you may be coming from. This beats the heck out of trucking back to say the center of a small town and then hunting for the right street or road out again because that is the way your directions were written. The other advantage is these maps allow you to see the real "lay of the land" and to possibly locate where your ancestors may have lived, where their land was (is), and to relate to the census information as to who their neighbors and kin were and where they lived. It is not uncommon to find people marrying into families that lived just up or down the road. This has helped me to understand many of the marriage patterns in my own research. In the end, many of them end up even closer by in the same cemetery. While most of these cemeteries can be seen from the roads, some cannot owing to their being grown over or not in the immediate vicinity of a church. In these days, many churches have "disappeared" or gone out of existence while others have built new buildings miles from the old site as population in the area continues to shift with ever more development. Having lived in the area between 1990 and 1995 (Social Circle) and more recently having scoured this and other nearby counties looking for a retirement property, I'm pretty familiar with the territory. But as I read some of these directions, I see on the List, I'm not sure I could drive right to some of the less familiar cemeteries. So Walter is trying to give unequivocal directions with the map coordinates. Although I don't know what the plans of the local Historical Society are, if they are doing what say the neighboring county of Gwinnett has done, they will "by'm'by" produce a map with all cemeteries located. If you really want to go high tech, consider an inexpensive GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) receiver which will direct you down the roads to your lat and long. With this you won't miss any cemetery unless a developer got to it first! I'll look up a URL for the USGS and maybe for a Monroe or Walton County Quadrangle or two. I'll send this along later. By the way, many libraries (particularly University Libraries) are depositories for USGS maps. If there is one near you, you can go and have a look at the maps you may want to get. Walter Freeman in PA Dorothy Cox wrote: > > Hi Mama Walton & researchers, > I am one of those researchers that has written for directions to cemeteries > in Walton > County, and I'm glad you are continuing to add these instructions on the > list. I have > the cemetery book, In Remembrance, which I wouldn't part with for love or > money, > but I live almost 400 miles from these cemeteries and when I can get to > Walton Co. > for a little research, I don't want to spend my whole vacation trying to > find directions > to these cemeteries. I'd like to have everything figured out so I can spend > my time > in the cemeteries. Walter has been kind enough to send some directions to > us but > I am one of those people that CAN"T read a map and don't understand this > type of > directions. > > Example; > > Aycock Cemetery--Map--Monroe, GA>334455N833857E (estimate), Monroe 7,5 > map sheed "Monroe" > >Barrett-Hanson Cemetery--Same as Kelly Cemetery, Monroe, Ga. 334558N833801, > Harmony Church Road > > I'm sorry Walter but these numbers don't mean a thing to me. I respect your > hard work > as I have done a lot of the same type. My husband and I have survey > cemeteries. We > have walked around in many overgrown, snakey cemeteries to copy the > inscriptions. > I would much rather have directions that tell me to go to a certain Road and > turn right > or left then go 2.5 miles and cemetery is on the right. I'm sure there are > others like me. > > Momma Walton, thank you so much for your continued hard work to make our > Walton > County list the best list on the net. Keep up the good work. > > Dot Sorrells Cox