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.