Pam (and anyone else following this thread), I made an error - should have looked it up -- the first cemetery I did was Mt. Ober (near Elizabethtown) and can be viewed at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/lancaster/1picts/cemeteries/mount-ober.htm and I ONLY did the transcription - Abby Bowman did the photography in the field. I knew about Worner -- my 4th Great Grandmother's tombstone is listed as: Tombstone located in Marietta Cemetery - Marietta, PA as reported in WORNER - V.19 - #364 (Lancaster County Historical Society Research Library). Marker: Catherine Huff McKain Real Daughter Born 1780 Died 1873 Unfortunately I still cannot find it! Have all of the rest for that line in my family - but not Catherine! But I keep looking (thus the occasional additions to transcripts and images for Marietta Cemetery) whenever I can. Thanks for the lead on the Rineer Book - I will look into it. Keith Pam Pearson wrote: > Keith writes: " - you said "what was done in Lancaster county when they read > the cemeteries several years ago " - I was not aware of such an effort. I > finished Mt. Olive Cemetery a few months ago (transcribing from images) - > and am working on Bainbridge Cemetery right now -- but if they are already > DONE - I would certainly be interested! Keith" > > A great resource (really indispensible, I think) for Lancaster County > researchers is "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" by A. Hunter > Rineer, Jr. It was published in 1993 by the Lancaster County Historical > Society. It contains 560 pages and is a complete guide to all churches and > cemeteries (public and private) in Lancaster County. It provides a brief > history for each church and cemetery. It also states what records are > available (baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, etc.) and where they > can be found. It provides a good overview of each religious denomination, as > well as maps of each township showing the locations of the churches and > cemeteries. LCHS sells them for $10 on their website. > > Many of the gravestone inscriptions at LCHS and LMHS were recorded in the > 1930s (Worner) and the 1960s (Gerberich). Some have updates from the 1980s > and later. The older records are particularly valuable, since many of the > stones have deteriorated (or, sadly, have been vandalized) since the > inscriptions were recorded. Of course, none of this precludes the need to > capture digital images of still-existing gravestones and posting them online > for all to view. Kudos to all of you are doing such great and valuable work! > > Per the book: > Marietta Cemetery: > The cemetery was chartered in 1855 by Lancaster County courts. > Gravestone inscriptions of the "oldest stones only" available at both the > Lancaster County Historical Society (LCHS) and Lancaster Mennonite > Historical Society (LMHS). > > Mount Olive Cemetery: > There is no listing for a cemetery by this name; perhaps it goes by > another name. > > Bainbridge Cemetery - the following is for Bainbridge Public Cemetery (also > called Riverview Cemetery): > Founded in 1874; gravestone inscriptions at LCHS and LMHS (no date > given). > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith McKain" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 7:35 PM > Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Cemetery Records [FIND A GRAVE] > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Keith A. McKain McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 - # Mc17936 Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 Email: [email protected]