Hi Mike, I see you have given considerable thought to data problems. Your methods of handling it are logical and reasonable. My method has been not to use anyone else's data and field collected my own. That way it is all my original data. Even if someone else has recorded inscriptions in a cemetery I will do my own and not use theirs. We both have put a great deal of time, money and effort into our work. I have given thought to what will happen to all my data when I sail off into the sunset. I don't want it to go with me. Take one item, I have taken digital pictures of every cemetery I have visited. My camera uses computer disks for film. If there is ever a slight earthquake near here, I will be under a huge pile of disks. What happens to them when I'm gone? I only record inscriptions in Callaway County, (some 200 so far) and they will fill 4 huge loose leaf binders. What happens to them? I am 75 years old, after all. What happens to your work? Right now my intent is to make 5 identical loose leaf binders for each county. Each cemetery will have a page in each book with photos and locations with directions on how to get to the cemetery from some know place. They will be alphabetical, first by township, then by cemetery within the township. Each township will have a map showing the cemeteries and a township data page. One binder is to go to the State Archives in Jefferson City, another to the Missouri Historical Society in Columbia, a third is to go to the historical society or library in the county that best handles cemetery information. And I keep two to upgrade and exchange with the first three as I add or change information. So far only two counties have their book, Harrison and Callaway. I had a flood here at home and it destroyed several beginning books of other counties. That shows how tenuous this data can be. I am rebuilding the books slowly. By the way I liked your interestingly simple method of locating cemeteries. Azimuth and distance from some known point. Would you mind if I used it? Enough of this epistle, take care. Paul **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016)