Just got this. I guess the GNIS folks are easier to deal with than the IRS and don't require as much "proof". Mac -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: GNIS: Missing Cemeteries] Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:58:13 -0500 From: Eve Brennan Edwards <eedwards@usgs.gov> To: mmmain@mac.com CC: Bruce A Wallace <bwallace@usgs.gov> Dear Mac Main: Thank you for your 19 November 2003, email message regarding the omission of two cemeteries in Randolph County, Indiana, from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database. We have added records for the names Huntsville Cemetery and Buena Vista Cemetery, and those records should be available at the website today. Thank you for your interest in geographic names. We are grateful that you took the time and effort to notify us and help us make the GNIS database a better and more accurate data source. If you have any comments or questions, please contact us. Sincerely, Ms. Eve Edwards eedwards@usgs.gov for gnis_manager@usgs.gov 523 National Center Reston, VA 20192 703-648-4548 gnis_manager Sent by: Roger L To: Mac Main <mmmain@mac.com> Payne cc: (bcc: Eve Brennan Edwards/NMD/USGS/DOI) Subject: Re: [Fwd: GNIS: Missing Cemeteries](Document link: Eve Brennan Edwards) 11/20/03 09:48 AM We appreciate this information, but please refer to our previous email. We shall investigate as time permits, but with our small staff and other priorities, it could be days, weeks, or months before we can verify the information. As indicated, if you can provide a verifiable citation for these names, we can add the entries quickly. Mac Main <mmmain@mac.com> To: gnis_manager@usgs.gov cc: 11/19/2003 05:35 Subject: [Fwd: GNIS: Missing Cemeteries] PM To the best of my knowledge the name of the Randolph County IN cemetery adjacent to the town of Huntsville is "HUNTSVILLE CEMETERY." The cemetery a few miles due north of there is adjacent to the Buena Vista Church and is named "BUENA VISTA CEMETERY. Again, both these cemeteries are indicated on topozone.com maps and why they are missing from the GNIS is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for looking into this matter and possibly adding them. M. M. Main -------- Original Message -------- Subject: GNIS: Missing Cemeteries Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:17:35 -0500 From: ask@usgs.gov To: mmmain@mac.com CC: gnis_manager@usgs.gov 11/19/2003 It would be helpful if you could tell us the names of the missing cemeteries so that we can research them and add them to the GNIS database. We have forwarded your inquiry to the USGS Geographic Names Office. You cab contact them directly via their E-mail address: gnis_manager@usgs.gov Thank you for your inquiry. Bruce Wallace USGS-ESIC 507 National Center Reston, VA 20192 1-888-ASK-USGS (Toll Free) (703) 648-5526 (Office Phone) (703) 648-5548 (Office FAX) bwallace@usgs.gov (Office E-mail) ====================================================== ***** The customers question and pertinent AskUSGS information follows: ***** mmmain@mac.com I love your site and thank you for making it available, BUT.....I m into genealogy and into cemeteries and use the GINS and don t understand how it can miss two large cemeteries in Randolph County Indiana? I got a list of Randolph County Indiana cemeteries to send a friend and TWO that I know of are missing from what I hoped would be a complete list from your experts. Huntsville, Randolph County Indiana has a cemetery on the south west side of town and a few mile north of Huntsville is the Buena Vista Church with a large cemetery. I believe topozone.com maps show these two cemeteries and find it hard to believe that you do not. Again, thanks for the great service....but this to me is a glaring error of ommission. Mac Main ========================================================