Re: Funeral Homes in General: I've seen quite a few ways this seems to work. 1) A funeral home where records are kept and they are associated with specific cemeteries for burials. Thus, they sometimes have both: --a) records of person, death date, (more info), a list of what was procurred for funeral costs, who paid and how much. --b) for more recent death dates, they likely will have a copy of the civil death certificate in their files. (not so for earlier ones...) --c) on the burial side as opposed to the services side, they will have the specific lot numbers at the cemetery/ [On this last point, I have had funeral homes send me drawings of "family plots" - showing where each person is buried - in addition to the specific records about the person I contacted them about. Thus, a "tip" is when asking about person abc, you "at the same time", ask if they are in a "family lot with multiple plots" and who else is buried there!] 2) The other thing to keep in mind is that some funeral homes are located in their own offices... and the cemetery is somewhere else - while others operate more as a "cemetery office" on the physical grounds of the cemetery. The latter seems to come up more often for still operational and very large cemeteries. All this is different from what we often hear as "tombstone transcriptions". In those, someone has physically been at the gravesite and transcribed whatever was carved on the headstones at the cemetery. Final thought before I go? Funeral home records are excellent secondary sources of information. And don't forget, those that have been "around" for many years, often have people who "know" that family line locally and may be a potential interview source for other reasons! In addition, they often have lots of unfilmed, untranscribed paper records on cards, books and sheets... sitting in filing cabinets. Remember too, that they are a commercial concern - so if they "go out of business"... the records may or may not survive... much like the ledger books of any other business. It's just that "these" are of interest to people like "us"! Good hunting! debbie CAhobbies@aol.com