This is in reply to Jane query about St Mary's Cemetery. I too have Catholic rellies buried at St Mary's Cemetery. I visited there about 2 years ago with the express purpose of photographing MI's of my descendents..I found that there is very little organization of material (index cards in boxes..mostly hand written)..but the Superintendent was able to provide a detailed description of where the MI's could be found despite his preparation for a funeral that afternoon. So the Cemetery is still doing burials. It is located on the outskirts of Covington. The Cemetery Superintendent was cordial, but an older fellow who was too busy with the daily operations to provide any guidance or information with the exception of where the MI's were located. I have never been successful at getting him by telephone and there was no computer in sight. At the time, there just happened to be several volumes of the original Burial Log, which, as I understand from another local fellow gen researcher who was there at the same time, were in the process of being transferred to some Church Archive. She said she had never seen them before in all the years she had been doing research there. We briefly compared the Log with the Index Cards of information..they seemed to match. I do not know if that transfer ever occurred, however, I was concerned that these volumes were available for public use without any oversight. I was able to take digital photos of the pages I needed..I felt VERY fortunate that day. What may be useful to you is to contact the volunteer from the RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) group (volunteers who provide look-ups of various types for a particular county) and see if this person could photo the MI..or do a look-up for you. I am one of the volunteers in California and have been doing this for several years..the system works..The URL is: www.raogk.org/ I also found that the headstones were in remarkably good shape and that the ground around the stones was well tended to..so the physical area looks good. I bought a book while in Covington, The History of the Diocese of Covington, KY authored by Rev. Paul E. Ryan, c. 1954, written on the occasion of the Centenary of the Diocese..perhaps the Kenton County Library also has a copy..I bought it in the St Mary's Church bookstore, across the street from the Church...it is an out of print book..if you have a specific question about a particular congregation, perhaps I can answer it using this resource. Also, I have found that the Kenton County Library is superb and has a Gen Friends group who do Gen research on site there for a very small fee...you might try them also..I have have good success with their look-ups of Gazetteers, Directories, Newspapers, Marriage Indexes, etc. Good luck in your search. Noreen Mitchell Ott, Woodland, California Researching: GOODWIN,RUSSMANN,HAYDEN in Covington