This link came from another list and hope it will help some of us Good Morning! > I saw this and thot it might be the very thing someone needs. > Ellie > > > I have found http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html > most helpful in finding cemeteries that are now off the beaten > path. In the course of looking for the cemetery that held the > graves of my husband's great-great-grandfather and several > great-uncles (graves with stones dating back to the 1800s), we > were stumped because the community was no longer on the map. > Using this link we were able to get the location, including the > Global Positioning System (GPS) codes for the cemetery, as well > as the map points for some current day known locations. Using > these points we were able to use our noses and find the old > cemetery. Having the current locations plotted, we were able to > say we had gone too far south, west, north, etc., and zero in on > the cemetery. I also used this site to locate the creek that was > listed as the source on a specific land grant, and was able to > determine where the "old homestead" really was. > Colleen Nolin Hollifield cjh1712@flash.net