Thank you so much for the information Eric. My next question is where would I find such a survey for Donaheady? Thank You Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "E Macklin" <emacklin@rogers.com> To: <nir-tyrone@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:41 AM Subject: [NIR-TYRONE] Cemetery Surveys > 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 > > > 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

Kathy, An excellent website is http://www.breadyancestry.com/index.php?id=genealogy which has some records digitized for Donagheady, including gravestone inscriptions from Grange, Old Donagheady and Old Leckpatrick burial grounds -----Original Message----- From: Kathy <bellmole@sympatico.ca> To: nir-tyrone@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 8:00 am Subject: Re: [NIR-TYRONE] Cemetery Surveys Thank you so much for the information Eric. My next question is where would I find such a survey for Donaheady? Thank You Kathy