Could you please tell me exactly what cemetery survey actually means? Thank You ----- Original Message ----- From: "E Macklin" <emacklin@rogers.com> To: <nir-tyrone@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: [NIR-TYRONE] Cemetery Surveys > There have been surveys for the cemeteries at Donegheady and Old > Donegheady in Co Tyrone. Has the cemtery at Bunowen ever been done? > > Eric > Please post messages in plain text only > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-TYRONE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Good morning Kathy: A "Cemetery Survey" is one where someone would create a geographical layout of the cemetery then layout a grid. Then they would summarize all existing headstones/monuments and inscriptions and place them on the grid. They would do this in order to determine how the plots were arranged and allotted to various individuals and families. Once that is done there will appear empty spaces on the grid which are then sounded to determine if some of the original stones which at one time were standing were now flat of the ground and in many cases for the older cemeteries, just under the surface of the ground. In this case they would be "retrieved" by removing surface material in order to read the inscription(s) on the stones. In a great many cases the stones are broken, which in this case they are left on the ground but re-assembled and repaired. At last there would be empty spaces which are then sounded to see if the plot had been used at all. Most if not all Burial Registers gave you everything but the location of the internment. The reason this is done is that in a great many cases cemeteries were used on a first come first served basis and filled in around some parts of the cemetery which had been allotted to some of the families. In this case we are dealing with some of the smaller cemeteries. The more current cemeteries all have grids with pre-determined plots laid out on a grid, all in nice neat rows and columns. The older ones were a bit of a jumble. In most cases the stones were of limestone and are no longer legible, even if they could be found. In the end, in many cases we are left with the notation, "that they are buried there, but now only God knows". So then that's it in a nut shell. Hope that answers your question. Eric From: "Kathy" <bellmole@sympatico.ca> To: <nir-tyrone@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [NIR-TYRONE] Cemetery Surveys Could you please tell me exactly what cemetery survey actually means? Thank You From: "E Macklin" <emacklin@rogers.com> To: <nir-tyrone@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: [NIR-TYRONE] Cemetery Surveys There have been surveys for the cemeteries at Donegheady and Old Donegheady in Co Tyrone. Has the cemtery at Bunowen ever been done? Eric