This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_916465319_boundary Content-ID: <0_916465319@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In a message dated 1/16/99 12:03:37 AM, Marennad@aol.com wrote: >CEMETERY AND MORTUARY RECORDS (Part 1 of 2) > > by Brian Mavrogeorge, Senior Development Manager > The Learning Company <bmavrogeorge@palladium.net> > >Americans rely heavily on the censuses for family group >information. But when searching for children or women who lived >prior to 1900 in the United States, these records are not >reliable. Infant mortality was high, and children who were born >and died between census enumerations don't appear on the census. >If you are looking for a woman in the U.S. who died before the >1850 federal census enumeration, the only information you'll find >under her own name might be on her tombstone or in a cemetery >card file. Tombstone inscriptions, cemetery records, or >undertaker records might be the only tangible evidence of these >lives. The Family Tutor for Basic Genealogy Records ><http://www.uftree.com>, by Johni Cerny, offers this advice. > >Start your cemetery search by finding the names and addresses of >churches in areas where your ancestor may have died. The National >Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has a Web site for >locating cemeteries: <http://www.sar.org/geneal/cemtmaps.htm>. > >Churches with affiliated burial grounds usually kept records of >interments in their ecclesiastical registers (sometimes called >"Sexton's Books"). The local minister might be able to tell you >where these registers are now -- in the original meetinghouse, a >central church archive, in the possession of the heirs of the >then-presiding minister, or at the office of the current >minister. Also, thousands of church burial registers have been >microfilmed and can be found in genealogical collections, or at >the LDS Family History Library and Family History Centers. > > * * * * * --part0_916465319_boundary Content-ID: <0_916465319@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <MI-GENEALOGY-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yd02.mx.aol.com (rly-yd02.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.2]) by air-yd01.mail.aol.com (v56.22) with SMTP; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:03:37 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-yd02.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id AAA08081; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:03:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA22543; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:50:58 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:50:58 -0800 (PST) From: Marennad@aol.com Message-ID: <e12c5628.36a01ccb@aol.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 23:59:55 EST Old-To: MICALHO-L-request@rootsweb.com, MI-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com, MIKENT-L@rootsweb.com, NYONONDA-L@rootsweb.com, StLouis-MO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Cemetery and Mortuary Records X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 226 Resent-Message-ID: <"3yFhD.A.leF.uqBo2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: MI-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: MI-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <MI-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/4202 X-Loop: MI-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: MI-GENEALOGY-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit CEMETERY AND MORTUARY RECORDS (Part 1 of 2) by Brian Mavrogeorge, Senior Development Manager The Learning Company <bmavrogeorge@palladium.net> Americans rely heavily on the censuses for family group information. But when searching for children or women who lived prior to 1900 in the United States, these records are not reliable. Infant mortality was high, and children who were born and died between census enumerations don't appear on the census. If you are looking for a woman in the U.S. who died before the 1850 federal census enumeration, the only information you'll find under her own name might be on her tombstone or in a cemetery card file. Tombstone inscriptions, cemetery records, or undertaker records might be the only tangible evidence of these lives. The Family Tutor for Basic Genealogy Records <http://www.uftree.com>, by Johni Cerny, offers this advice. Start your cemetery search by finding the names and addresses of churches in areas where your ancestor may have died. The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has a Web site for locating cemeteries: <http://www.sar.org/geneal/cemtmaps.htm>. Churches with affiliated burial grounds usually kept records of interments in their ecclesiastical registers (sometimes called "Sexton's Books"). The local minister might be able to tell you where these registers are now -- in the original meetinghouse, a central church archive, in the possession of the heirs of the then-presiding minister, or at the office of the current minister. Also, thousands of church burial registers have been microfilmed and can be found in genealogical collections, or at the LDS Family History Library and Family History Centers. * * * * * --part0_916465319_boundary--