These are interesting (and the first, very helpful to someone as math-challenged as I am :-). The second contains a wealth of ideas. I've trudged through many woods in search of tombstones, but I found a bunch of tips that had never occurred to me. The third site has loads of links. Nancy Please excuse crossposts. Tombstone Calculator: http://www.rootsweb.com/~flaigs/Tool_TSC.htm This and That Genealogy Tips on Cemeteries: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/cemetery.htm Links to Cemetery & Tombstone Transcriptions Online: http://www3.sympatico.ca/bkinnon/cemeteries.htm Visit the family: www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 www.thepastwhispers.com