I have discovered this, especially about Mt Moriah - the images alone on the website prove it........... What is the GSP? and how do I get there? ----- Original Message ----- From: <organizr01@aol.com> To: <PHILLY-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:55 AM Subject: [Phly-Rts] Mount Moriah information > Mt. Moriah is a huge cemetery and at least 100,000 people were buried > there. I have serveral people that were buried there, all in the same lot, > according to death records, but a volunteer visited the cemetery and found > no headstones. The manager of the cemetery also looked for me and found > no headstones and also taught me some valuable genealogy lessons, which > other cemeteries later confirmed. > > 1. People were often buried without markers (headstones), especially > newborns and poor people. This makes our job even harder. Learning this, I > stopped being as frustrated and stopped thinking that so many death > records must be wrong if I couldn't find headstones where they were > supposed to be. Also, this explains that markers don't always crumble and > fall apart, but sometimes were just never there. > 2. In many states it is legal to bury the dead without the use of > undertakers, which are an additional expense. Cemeteries are supposed to > be notified, but people don't always do this. This is often the case with > cremations where the burials would be relatively easy. I learned this > from a cemetery in Stroudsberg. PA. Combine this with no marker! > 3. Many small local cemeteries kept no records as families took care of > graves. It wasn't until perpetual care came into existence that > record-keeping improved. > 4. Mt. Moriah is just one of many old cemeteries in terrible condition. > Most of the burials were more than a century a go, there was no perpetual > care, i.e. income, and people do terrible things to cemeteries, including > trash-dumping and vandalism. There is an active group of volunteers but > the task is simple huge. > > Finally, someone at the GSP began organizing the Mt. Moriah records about > 7 years ago but developed carpal tunnel syndrome and had to stop. I don't > know how far she got, but they are all on a computer and if you go there > and you're lucky, as I was, you can find people in 2 seconds, literally. > > Good luck. > > Merle > ________________________________________________________________________ > Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security > tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, > free AOL Mail and more. > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The GSP is the Geneaological Society of Pennsylvania. It's on Broad Street, a block or so north of Locust. -----Original Message----- From: onecrazychick@comcast.net To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Mount Moriah information I have discovered this, especially about Mt Moriah - the images alone on the website prove it........... What is the GSP? and how do I get there? ----- Original Message ----- From: <organizr01@aol.com> To: <PHILLY-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:55 AM Subject: [Phly-Rts] Mount Moriah information > Mt. Moriah is a huge cemetery and at least 100,000 people were buried > there. I have serveral people that were buried there, all in the same lot, > according to death records, but a volunteer visited the cemetery and found > no headstones. The manager of the cemetery also looked for me and found > no headstones and also taught me some valuable genealogy lessons, which > other cemeteries later confirmed. > > 1. People were often buried without markers (headstones), especially > newborns and poor people. This makes our job even harder. Learning this, I > stopped being as frustrated and stopped thinking that so many death > records must be wrong if I couldn't find headstones where they were > supposed to be. Also, this explains that markers don't always crumble and > fall apart, but sometimes were just never there. > 2. In many states it is legal to bury the dead without the use of > undertakers, which are an additional expense. Cemeteries are supposed to > be notified, but people don't always do this. This is often the case with > cremations where the burials would be relatively easy. I learned this > from a cemetery in Stroudsberg. PA. Combine this with no marker! > 3. Many small local cemeteries kept no records as families took care of > graves. It wasn't until perpetual care came into existence that > record-keeping improved. > 4. Mt. Moriah is just one of many old cemeteries in terrible condition. > Most of the burials were more than a century a go, there was no perpetual > care, i.e. income, and people do terrible things to cemeteries, including > trash-dumping and vandalism. There is an active group of volunteers but > the task is simple huge. > > Finally, someone at the GSP began organizing the Mt. Moriah records about > 7 years ago but developed carpal tunnel syndrome and had to stop. I don't > know how far she got, but they are all on a computer and if you go there > and you're lucky, as I was, you can find people in 2 seconds, literally. > > Good luck. > > Merle > ________________________________________________________________________ > Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security > tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, > free AOL Mail and more. > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.