Another thought that no one has mentioned. On older death certificates, when a cemetery name is given as the place of burial, that may not be the name that the cemetery is known by today. I have many family burials (in the old "Bluegrass state") that will list a name of a cemetery that I am not familiar with and later discover that it must have been known by that name in the early years but currently has a different name. Especially true if it started as a family cemetery and later became associated with a church. Debbie Hammonds

HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld Debbie, Sometimes you can resolve this issue using USGS. They have many historical names and/or alternate names listed. I've found a number of creeks by searching for the name in that very old deed and finding alternate names, including the current name. Doesn't work all the time but always worth a try. And many times you may not find the cemetery listed but will find the [historical] church of the same name. I have sometimes run into problems when people give me the name of a cemetery that can't be found on fag but on USGS, up pops the church. Further digging discovers that this "church" cemetery had been turned over to the city/town and now has a new name. I'm now trying hard to include aka names on our files. Gets confuzin' sometimes :-) Nel Nel