Cheramie, You are in luck. The burial records of the Girod St. Cemetery 1817 - 1930 are on microfilm at the Family History Library. If you have a Fmaily History Center near you (and I am sure you do), you can order the microfilm for about $6 and go through the records yourself. Here is the link to the page on the FHL website that tells you about the film and gives you the call number. The recors are in alphabetical orer: In a message dated 3/29/2008 11:02:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, chamoo@cox.net writes: Okay, so here comes the questions that lots of other people have asked and I didn't pay attention to... Girod Cemetery. Are there records somewhere? Are they accessible? If so, will they be likely to give me any useful/interesting information? This is my first experience with burial records as early as 1830. Is some death record a ridiculous idea? And, I'm just curious and wonder if anyone has thoughts on this. This ancestor was Capt. Robert M Davis at his wedding, Baltimore, MD, 1802. His whole family was military, so I assumed he was and got some very tiny, sketchy record, almost nothing, from NARA. But, by the time he was in New Orleans 1813-1815, and about that time discharged/released/retired from the military, he was Major Robert Davis. However, when he died, 15 years after that, he was again, Capt. Davis...listed in the City Directory as a 'sea captain' and owning or running a dry goods store at 19 Royal, cor. Bienville. Would the designation Capt. then mean, just that, that he was a ship's captain? What ship? I seriously doubt he owned a ship. Why else would he reduce the rank back from Major??? And if a 'rank' were going to be put on a headstone, why would you choose the lower rank? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15&ncid=aolhom00030000000001)