I found my whole Born and Rice clan in a large tomb at Lafayette Cemetary #1. I was thrilled, to say the least! Good luck with yours, Kathy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathleen Deao Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Cemeteries around Jackson Ave in 1869 I love the F-A-G site and use it often, but no luck in this particular case. I doubt they could afford markers. I was thinking a potters field, or other mass burial site, with the epidemic. Charity records don't seem to have the ones I am looking for either. I seem to have more success on Find-a-grave with small towns in the mid-west than with N.O. cemeteries on that site. Is this just my experience? Or do others have good luck with New Orleans records? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have to agree with you in that very few of my family members are identified in New Orleans on Find-a-Grave. Given the age of some of the tombs and the damage done over the years to many of the name stones, it appears that very few people have walked the cemeteries just to canvas the site(s) for the purpose of identifying tombs. I believe most of the Find-a-Grave information is from volunteers who have placed their identified family members memorials on the web site. JMHO I have to admit, given the thousands of tombs/vaults located in some of the larger cemeteries around NO; plus the heat of the New Orleans day, would discourage most normal volunteers from walking their grounds ... Even walking around SL Louis Cemetery #1 on November 1st of this year, looking for the twenty tombs that I had on my list to check was rough -- the temp got into the 70's, with very little shade and a lot of whitewashed tombs; Oh yea, no clouds were visible that morning; which would have helped <grin> ... That was November - I wouldn't even try to walk a larger cemetery during the summer, if it wasn't for family members ... My Hat is off to those volunteers who love to canvas any Cemetery during the summer months! Harold Wilkinson Pensacola, FL -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathy Cochran Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Cemeteries around Jackson Ave in 1869 I found my whole Born and Rice clan in a large tomb at Lafayette Cemetary #1. I was thrilled, to say the least! Good luck with yours, Kathy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathleen Deao Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Cemeteries around Jackson Ave in 1869 I love the F-A-G site and use it often, but no luck in this particular case. I doubt they could afford markers. I was thinking a potters field, or other mass burial site, with the epidemic. Charity records don't seem to have the ones I am looking for either. I seem to have more success on Find-a-grave with small towns in the mid-west than with N.O. cemeteries on that site. Is this just my experience? Or do others have good luck with New Orleans records? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I wholeheartedly agree with a hats off to the volunteers who index cemeteries. We have been spoiled by how easy it is to click a button and find information placed there by others, whether they worked outdoors or in a library. They sure make our work effortless . . . and this is a good place to thank them!!