In a message dated 1/3/2004 7:28:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Does anyone know if the burial records for Pompey Hill Cemetery are on line. I am looking for members of the Holsmann /Holzmann etc. families who may be buried there. Go to Google.com and type: "Pompey Hill Cemetery" in the search box, including the quotations marks. Although I found no one of the Holzmann/Holtzmann, etc. surname appearing in the online cemetery listing, there is some excellent advice in the paragraph at the beginning of the Pompey Hill Cemetery listing. Kathy Crowell cites a book that contains much more Pompey cemetery information, as well as the name and address of the town historian. It is my understanding that the Rev. Wm. Martin Beauchamp, from whose notes the Pompey Hill Cemetery listing was compiled, was often selective. [In other words, he did not always list ALL of a cemetery's burials in his notes.] On several occasions I have compared separate unpublished readings of a cemetery's headstones and have been amazed at how much they differ -- with each other, and with my own reading of the same stones. In one case, the true year of death on a monument, 1849, was readable only in my photographs. By my on-site reading of the monument, and in two DAR listings, the year of death was 1819. [Other records establish 1849 as the correct year of death]. To add to the confusion, a Civil War marker [1861-1865] was placed at the grave! Although I don't recall you mentioning the time period in which your HOLZMANNs might be found in Onondaga County, their given names or why you think that they might have been been buried at Pompey Hill, a search on the Onondaga County USGenWeb site shows these promising names appearing on 1874 maps: Holtzman, G., lot 93 Holzman, G., Danforth & Brighton map The Onondaga Co. USGenWeb site has two search engines. One of them found Holtzman and Holzman. The other search engine found neither surname. Go figure. The HOLZMANN surname is one where SOUNDEX searching capabilities on a website can overcome many variations in spelling. Ancestry.com has SOUNDEX searching. Rootsweb.com, a free website, has SOUNDEX and metaphone searching. Hope this helps someone in their online searching. Diane Wilson Flynn