Hello and Happy Mother's Day! I'm a member at findagrave.com. I spent some time at the website yesterday looking for some of my relatives that I know lived and died in Washington County. Many were missing. I know there are a handful of reasons that could happen. For instance, not all of the people in the cemeteries are listed, even with gravestones present. But, I was thinking of other reasons. Because there have been residents in this county since the 1700's, perhaps there were quite a few burials on their own farms. Info gets lost over the years, especially about those without markers. But I'm wondering if it's possible, using occupants' knowledge of the property or historical newspaper info, to locate and identify old gravesites. I suppose that would only recover the locations of perhaps half, if that, but still, that would be pretty neat, not to mention helpful, to genealogists. By "old", I mean pre-1850. Perhaps I'm late to the game and this is already going on. Any thoughts on this? Jan G.

I think Charles Moore was able to pick up many of the old ones with the use of other records (DAR, Newspapers, etc.). Still, there are some that were lost quite early. Margaret Ernest ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet Garland" <erlabri@cox.net> To: <nywashin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 12:32 PM Subject: [NYWASHIN] Graves on private property in Washington County > Hello and Happy Mother's Day! > > > > I'm a member at findagrave.com. I spent some time at the website yesterday > looking for some of my relatives that I know lived and died in Washington > County. Many were missing. I know there are a handful of reasons that > could > happen. For instance, not all of the people in the cemeteries are listed, > even with gravestones present. But, I was thinking of other reasons. > Because > there have been residents in this county since the 1700's, perhaps there > were quite a few burials on their own farms. Info gets lost over the > years, > especially about those without markers. But I'm wondering if it's > possible, > using occupants' knowledge of the property or historical newspaper info, > to > locate and identify old gravesites. I suppose that would only recover the > locations of perhaps half, if that, but still, that would be pretty neat, > not to mention helpful, to genealogists. By "old", I mean pre-1850. > > > > Perhaps I'm late to the game and this is already going on. Any thoughts on > this? > > > > Jan G. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWASHIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi All; If there's a stone on farm cemeteries it's been recorded and printed. Example, my Wakeley's had a farm in Johnsburg and I've been there and seen the stones. Usually no matter who owns the land now they respect the graves and leave them alone. Yes, we also know that there's some graves without stones for the habit of having a mound can still be found. Dee On 5/9/10 2:32 PM, "Janet Garland" <erlabri@cox.net> wrote: > Hello and Happy Mother's Day! > > > > I'm a member at findagrave.com. I spent some time at the website yesterday > looking for some of my relatives that I know lived and died in Washington > County. Many were missing. I know there are a handful of reasons that could > happen. For instance, not all of the people in the cemeteries are listed, > even with gravestones present. But, I was thinking of other reasons. Because > there have been residents in this county since the 1700's, perhaps there > were quite a few burials on their own farms. Info gets lost over the years, > especially about those without markers. But I'm wondering if it's possible, > using occupants' knowledge of the property or historical newspaper info, to > locate and identify old gravesites. I suppose that would only recover the > locations of perhaps half, if that, but still, that would be pretty neat, > not to mention helpful, to genealogists. By "old", I mean pre-1850. > > > > Perhaps I'm late to the game and this is already going on. Any thoughts on > this? > > > > Jan G. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWASHIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message