Hi I copied this off of the Page list and thought that it might be of interest.... Leslie I have a Magellan GPS 2000 XL Satellite Navigator. There are many GPS units (receivers) available from $100 up to whatever you wish to pay. Even the cheapest units are capable of telling you the latitude and longitude accurately enough to find any geographical location if known. They are small, portable, almost pocket size, and operate on internal batteries or 12 volts from your car cig. lighter socket. I use DeLorme Street Atlas USA mapping program to save my locations on a map which I can print out & send a copy to other people if needed. You don't need a mapping program to use the GPS unit. You can just write down the location for future reference if you don't have the program. The mapping program will let you simply find any Lat./ Long. coordinates in the United States of any location you want. If someone gave me coordinates of a cemetery that was out in the woods on a farm in Kentucky, I could go right to it. I have been using my GPS unit and saving this info. for some time now, hoping some other people would start doing the same. I will be happy to answer any questions about this because I want to locate a number of cemeteries yet that seem to be lost! A number of electronics stores such as Radio Shack carry some of these units. Also, some sporting goods stores, since they are good for hikers and hunters to find their way back. I bought mine from K-Mart in the sporting goods section. If you get coordinates on any cemeteries in Madison Co., Kentucky or Pike Co., Illinois, send them to me! Don Fox DonFox@cybertrails.com ______________________________ To answer some of the questions about GPS units, read on. 1. The accuracy at present is about 100 meters (which is a little more than 300 feet for you non-metric people). That accuracy will get you real close to a location you are looking for with no problem. 2. My main interest in using this method is to give people a way to find abandoned cemeteries which are not now on present day maps and believe me, there are a lot of them! I am not concerned about major cemeteries so much because they are on most maps. Old topographic maps show a number of abandoned cemeteries but no-where near all of them. 3. It is important to know that two methods of recording positions are commonly used here in the US. One uses Degrees, Minutes and Seconds, written as: 30 deg., 45 min., 30 seconds but the other uses a fractional notation such as: 30 deg., 45.5 minutes which is the same as the location above. A location in Denver, Colorado would be written as: 39 deg. 45.00 N & 105 deg. 00.00 W. Be sure to put a decimal point in if you are using the decimal system or it can be very confusing! 4. I am presently using DeLorme Street Atlas USA, version 6.0. With it, I can put a lat/lon flag on any location and it stores that info. for future reference. You can place any name or words on the map along with the location. I can then print out a map, which shows the flag on it for other people's use, or for me to use if I don't have my notebook computer with me. 5. At the present time, I do not have access to any cemetery records here at my home. Don Fox DonFox@cybertrails.com