I thank Joy also. I have one county in Iowa I've been working on cemeteries for a year and a half and I know it's not current and I'm beginning to think it never will be. I've been blessed in Emmons County because a gentlemen by the name of Ronald Kremer took it on in late 80's or early 90's I understand and has it all documented. Cemeteries on farms, cemeteries with two or three graves, etc. A much much larger list than USGS provides. He did a fantastic job but we don't think it's current or complete. It seems like an ongoing project but what I've learned in the last few days from this listing is certainly going to ease the pain. Sincerely, Mike Emmons Traill > I suppose in the last ten years or so I have spent days anguishing over trying to identify cemeteries to generate a list of cems as a basis to start visiting cemeteries. I work with the (now a book) list of ND State Health Department official licensed cemeteries and others that are not licensed which usualy give the descirption in legal descriiption to the nearest section, then the Geological Survey page which gives the locations in GPS longitude and latitude, then the various county atlases from old time to recent, then the ND county road maps. In most of those maps the cemeteries are a box with a cross or a cross, but almost never a