Thanks, I found this out, or actually my Uncle and Aunt did since they still live in Chicago. I'd asked them to take a picture of his grandparents graves and then went to findagrave and found a few more, as long as they were there, lol. They like walking so were game. Out of the 5 they looked for, only 1 of them still had a gravestone. My great grandparents were 25 years and so were 2 others. I wonder what we'll do with everyone being cremated today? Julie in CA -----Original Message----- From: poland-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:poland-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Debbie Greenlee Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:54 PM To: Poland Roots Subject: [POLAND] Chicago Cemeteries Cemeteries in Chicago were set-up a little differently than perhaps those in other areas of the U.S. There are no cemeteries in the city of Chicago, proper. All are located in the surrounding suburbs. Many Poles buried their dead in St. Adalbert's Cemetery and Maryhill Cemetery in Niles as well as other Catholic cemeteries south and west of the city of Chicago: http://www.cathcemchgo.org/locationsStart.php?page=1 St. Adalbert's (and probably other "European" cemeteries) practiced the Polish custom of re-using graves up until 40 years ago. When people buried their dead but could not afford to pay for perpetual care they purchased Term Graves. These graves were used for 25 years at which time the family had the option to then purchase perpetual care or let the grave site be sold to someone else. Buying a Term Grave was common practice and this sort of thing continues in Poland today. I mention this because it is possible that a person might not be able to locate an actual grave site though the cemetery should have a record of the original burial. See this Poland Roots post dated Dec. 21, 1997. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/POLAND-ROOTS/1997-12/0882706833 See Poland Roots' Archives for my posting dated Oct. 1, 2007, subject. St. Adalbert's Cemetery (Chicago) for an update on this subject. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=POLAND-ROOTS Debbie Lori wrote: "Yes, next time you are in Chicago, go to the Cemetery of the church & the church that your parents attended, and request records of all whom are buried in unconsecrated ground of the cemetery. All cemeteries have schematics of where remains are buried. . ." ********************************* Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com ---------------------------------- Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. ---------------------------------- Browse the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots Search the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.