On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, PAJDAISYLANE@aol.com wrote: >Hi Mike, > snip > > 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. The State Archives is a good place for information like this. > 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? > No problem. But I really like lat/long better. Lat/long is what makes my system work so well. It's a good base system, but people have trouble making sense out of it in their heads. I get the azimuth and distance information and other things people like to see from the lat/longs. Mike

Mike and Paul; Missouri Historical manuscripts is a better place Western Historical manuscript, east end of Library UM=Columbia. Not that the others are not great sources, just the various manuscript storage is better in my opinion. Not as well used as the others, basically because non academician are reluctant to use, but really great archival and technical centers. There are at least four, Columbia , Rolla and K.C. and I think St Louis and each knows of the others collections and resources bud.