Hi, List: I have a slightly different question and I hope someone on the list can help. Is there a special form or type of paperwork that needs to be done to have a relative exhumed? I'm sure there is, I just don't know what it would be. Is it something that the funeral director would know? The problem is kind of a long story, so if everyone doesn't want to read on, maybe they could respond to the above question without hearing "the rest of the story"!! I have a cousin who has been blessed with several children; five of them are fine and all grown up, etc., but the two children that seem to have been "misplaced" were born with severe birth defects and didn't live to be very old. I thought Bobby Joe was 2, but the cemetery list has him as 1 year old and his brother Eric was only 4 months old. When these children passed away, my cousin and her husband didn't have a cemetery plot and couldn't afford to purchase a large one like they would need. So, they used the "family" plot for a temporary burial site. We have parents, grand, great grand and great great grandparents buried there as well. My cousin and her husband told the cemetery superintendent that it would be temporary and that when they could get a plot of their own, they would have the children exhumed and moved (to another area of Madison County). Anyway, my cousin's brother (my older cousin), passed away in June this year and when we were all at the cemetery, she asked the funeral director if there was any trouble (room-wise) finding a place for her brother. The funeral director told her that there was enough room and that the babies had been moved. She thought he meant that they moved them a few inches this way or that way in order to fit her brother in, but he said, "No, they've been moved to ......." (the other place in Madison County). She was so upset. She just lost her only older brother and then to be told that "someone" moved her babies "somewhere" at "sometime". Nobody knows who took them, where exactly they took them or when they were taken! This all sounds very unlikely to me. For one thing, doesn't someone have to pay for the exhumation? And, isn't there a government type form that needs to be signed by the parents? I really think they are still in the original cemetery because there have been many "turn overs" in management at the cemetery and several of the people who were keeping notes (kind of poorly until recently), have passed away themselves. I think that when the children were buried, the management was told that it was the intention to have them moved (eventually), and when they wrote it down in their book, they simply wrote something like "babies to be moved to ........." and it has been interpretted as having truly been done. I have spoken to the superintendent and the caretaker and they both swear that the children were already moved. Now, if my cousin wants to have her children exhumed and she fills out whatever paperwork is necessary according the NYS and then have them moved to "........." and pays someone to go there and remove them and we all have a ceremony in the new cemetery; who will they be bringing if the children aren't there? I'm so sorry for dragging this out, I thought I could simplify it but it's just too weird! Thank you all for your patience and I hope someone can guide us along. Best Always, Carol P.S. Thanks, Tim, for letting me post this. I really appreciate it.