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    1. Re: [IASCOTT] Re: Lookups for Oakdale Cem.
    2. Hi Jo, The records I am looking through are the Interment logs. The only information that is reliable about them is the date that the cemetery received them, the undertaker, and their section & lot number. {My first ancestor I found in them was declared 80 years old and born in Davenport, when I know for a fact that he was born in Cass Co. MI and only 74 when he died} This is what I found on those names you cited. The one from Lot 94: Elisa D. Collins, d. 1870 Lot 55: Elisa Collins d. 1883 Lot 16: Elizabeth L. Collins b. Penn. d. Clinton Co.; age 76, d. 18 Sept. 1916. That lot was owned by William Collins & purchased in 1885. So none of those are the Elizabeth Collins you are seeking. I looked through both sections of Index and there were no other Elizabeth Collins listed. {Which means nothing} What makes you believe that she was moved from St. Mary's Cemetery? As I am learning as I go along I will share with you some observations. These records are the day to day logs of "what they did with the bodies". If a body was removed from the cemetery, they located the name in the log on the original entry and made a note of the date it was removed and where it was sent. If you are of the belief that Elizabeth Collins was originally buried at St. Mary's then you will find her in those records, {conveniently, with a date of death, it won't be hard to locate her} and if she was moved, it will be documented on the same line with a note about where she relocated to, most likely. A note about the names you find with "no dates". If the person was buried at that particular cemetery at the time of death, there IS A DATE. I too have found my people with "no dates" in some of these databases. As well as one database will have a name and another won't. Very frustrating. I am guessing here, but I believe that is because of the Index that the name was acquired from. The last portion of this particular set of microfilm has the indices. In it are the names, interment numbers, {the order in which the people were buried}, and the section and lot numbers. When you find a name with "no dates" that's because it came from that type of Index. They don't list the date of death there. In the case of the microfilm I am searching, it appears that it was made in several different attempts by several different people. The names are listed alphabetically and at the beginning of each letter everything is very organized. Once you get towards the last section of a letter you will find names beginning with CL, CO, CR, CI, etc. all mixed together. There are also 2 sets of indices. One of my names was missing from both lists, either because it could not be deciphered or because it was overlooked by whoever made the index. My suggestion is for you to get the records from St. Mary's and check them. I found both of the people I have been seeking, {a husband & wife} one appears in the Ancestry.com database as buried in Lot 164, Section 15, "no dates given" {but not in the index of the film} and the other hasn't shown up at all on the Internet, but does appear in the index. Her father bought the lot in 1901 and I just looked through the film for anybody buried in lot 164, sec. 15 {a lot easier than reading each name} and found both her parents, her brother and sister and her and her husband. Hope this helps, Cathy

    07/31/2002 11:44:50