To all those on the list I thought I would share an genealogical experience that I had just outside of Rome, New York about 2 months ago. My 5th great grandparents, Gershom and Catherine Hinckley, are buried in an "abandoned" cemetery, sometimes refered to as the "Niles Cemetery", on route 69 near the Oriskany Battlefield Monument. I live in Grants Pass, Oregon and my wife and I elected to take a cross country drive into New York and surrounding states. We thought we would attempt researching some of the New England areas that we had not before been able to access, for one reason or another. In attempting to find the cemetery in question I stopped at a residence near route 69 and Monument Rd. It just so happened the cemetery in question is located in the back yard of this particular residence. Both before, and following my introducing myself and explaining my interest in this cemetery I was told, in a rather pointed, direct and mildly venomous fashion that the cemetery was "on private property", "hers", and that I would not be allowed acess. For those of you who may have it in mind in the future to visit ancestors' gravesites a word to the wise. Prepare for the eventuality that you may be rudely rebuffed without apparent reason. Erwin Kirby