Hi Gang I'm answering to the list, but really writing to Joy. What a Joy you are! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. --for the Montana page that translates from GPS converted, --to legal descriptions. I have book marked the page and intend to try it out. I'm temporarily out of the cemetery business, having compiled the Sioux County book we worked on from Feb to July. 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 name. The list that is inlcuded in the Geologic Survey includes names, but some of them I think they invented, as they do not match any of the official given names for the cemetery, although each cemetery probably has several names it goes by. How do you try to put all than information together to develop a list of cemeteries and their legal locations? I have spent days and weeks in total, translating GPS to degrees, minutes, and seconds and then plotting on the county highway map which has a few lines of laltitude and longitude in that form to try to see if the Geologic Survey cemeteries match any that are found from the other sources. Almost never does my plot come out to the exact location of the cemetery on the maps. Often there is a reason for that, in that they cemetery on the map is not located in the right part of the section, or even in the right section. As we visit the cemteries, the county natives ask if we knew about such and such a cemetery which is located here or there. Often we have not, and that is added to our list with a change of numbering until we get to the very end of the project and declare our numbers to be stable. Occasionaly the county Register has a list of cemeteries and their locations but that is rare. We always generate a list of cemeteries and their descriptions, license numbers and locations etc. etc. for the Register. I don't know if they ever use it, but at least now they have such a list. I'm hoping that if we compile any more cemetery books that your translation page will be a Godsend to us dummies who have to attempt to 'find' all the county cemeteries and get there for the several trips it takes to get them compiled into the book, described, located, with physical directions on how to get to the cemtery from some known landmark. So, Joy--thanks again! George L. Barron, 8399 33rd St. SE, Jamestown