Hello, I will expand on Rich's suggestion. Has she checked for a book written about the county's history? The author usually wrote about all the churches in the county, the churches' history, pastors, etc... Maybe she could find something useful in there? Angela Tielking -----Original Message----- From: Rich Green [mailto:rgreen@insightbb.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 5:08 PM To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Lost Church and Records Howdy LA, Have you thought about trying to establish who the pastor and or other church officials were for the time period in question? If the names are known you may be able to locate ancestors. Maybe there are church records to be found within their personal papers (assuming that there are any to be found). It's a long shot I know. If the cemetery is located in a well established community, there may be health department records, but I suppose these would probably be found within one of your sources already listed. Good luck, Rich Green Historic Archaeological Research 4338 Hadley Court West Lafayette, IN 47906 Office: (765) 464-8735 Mobile: (765) 427-4082 www.har-indy.com ----- Original Message ----- From: L.A. CLUGH To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:36 PM Subject: [INPCRP] Lost Church and Records List, I have worked with a lady who is seeking information on a Church cemetery in Indiana. She has been through all the normal people and place in the County and the State Library and Fort Wayne too. This was a Presbyterian church and she has also checked with the National Church archives. No one knows anything about this so far. The building is long gone, the Church was listed in the 1878? Atlas. It must have closed before the 1880's. So my question to you all. If we were to create a list of places to look for information on who is buried in a cemetery, where would you look? I will be glad to collect all your wonderful ideas for a page for future researchers. Most of these are burials before 1880's. Records end up in the strangest places. L.A. Other than: County Historical Society County Library County Courthouse County Historians State Library Fort Wayne Library LDS microfilms Church Archives ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is undisguised. This is a cemetery. "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA