Lori, Great story.....<g>. Sounds like a typical genealogists day.....LOL...Really enjoyed hearing about your weekend in Pitts...... ----- Original Message ----- From: <Markburgh1@aol.com> To: <PA-PITTSBURGH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 1:06 PM Subject: [PITTSBURGH] My weekend in Pittsburgh - Long story > I don't know if it should be called Accidental Tourist or Weekend at > Bernie's. > > Who knew dead people would be so hard to find. We got out to the 'burgh > about 2 Friday afternoon. Using my husband's scant memory (his family is from > Pittsburgh), we went searching. First we went to Mt. Calvary. Pat, (husband) > thought his aunt was buried here. They were expecting a funeral and weren't > sure if they could help us. After explaining we drove in from the other side > of the state and couldn't come back Monday they agreed to look in computer. > Guess what, not there. It seems in 1960s they only buried Lutherans, we were > looking for Catholics. > > 2. Right up the street was St. Mary's. Not having written done Norm's info, I > wasn't sure if it was the right one for the Markey family. We got to the > office, hours 9-5 M-F and there was a sign on the door. Hours by appointment > only and no one was around. But we did get a beautiful view of the whole > city. At this point I was ready to give up. > > Looked at the map and decided Resurrection looked like it might be a Catholic > cemetery. Hit PAYDIRT. The gentleman at the counter was wonderful!!!! When > he couldn't find anyone we were looking for at Resurrection he checked Holy > Souls and found someone with the McCaffrey surname. He gave me a map and > counted out rows so we could find the correct gravesite. We almost missed > Holy Souls because we missed the right exit and drove past it on the Parkway. > Frustrated I said skip it. My husband, (not into genealogy) said we were > going to find a dead person we knew. Going back was worth it, we found my > mother in law's long lost father's gravesite. I couldn't believe the luck. I > thought he fell off the face of the earth. > > The thing that really bothered my was that at Holy Souls and St. Philip's in > Crafton, they graves were in such a sorry state. Broken tombstones, embedded > in the ground. It was really sad. > > Just wanted to share. I finally found something even if we really had to work > for it. > > Lori > > > ==== PA-PITTSBURGH Mailing List ==== > SUE* MCALISTER-Pittsburgh List Mom > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >