Thank you. Apparently my error was in entering the name of Little Falls as the feature name, as you point out. I wonder why it doesn't work that way. Oh well!! I'm glad for your superior knowledge...and help. Jane > There are 73 cemeteries. I see 9 cemeteries for Little Falls area alone. > > Fink-VanValkenburg > Gardner > Herkimer > Hess > Holy Trinity > Lower > St Mary's Cemetery > Upper > Walrath > > The trick to find all cemeteries in a specific county in USGS' GNIS is: > > do NOT enter name at all in "Feature Name" field box. > > Enter "Herkimer" in county name > select New York > select Feature Type - "cemetery" > send query. > you get 73 cemeteries. I doubt it is complete because USGS is trying > to locate every cemetery, including abandoned and family cemeteries. > > David Samuelsen > > > > > Anyone have a cemetery index for Herkimer Co.? > > > > I just used gnis to look for cemeteries in Little Falls and got a fat goose egg. Does that mean that > > folks who lived in Little Falls were buried elsewhere? And where would that be? > > > > I am seeking a cemetery where John L. ADAMS may have been buried between 1840 and 1850.