Gosh what a flurry I started the other day with all this! The Highland Council in Dornoch I had said contained the cemetery records for all of Sutherland. Now that I'm back in Canada Im starting to question what I saw there. The 'records' hauled out were A3 size notebooks listing names, location of graves, date of burial, address in some cases and other notes in many cases. Hey; they did not go back to the bronze age! The 'maps' showed lair locations for an entire cemetery. For example, I was looking at Dornoch Free Church Cemetery on Golf Club Road. The entire cemetery was drafted on vellum showing lairs for the entire cemetery. It was about 3ft by 4 ft in size and there was a cabinet full of these on the third floor of the building. There was a whole wall of record books. I was looking for people buried in 20th century graves and that is exactly what the books and maps helped with. I was glad I found these records and the archivists there, and will go back on my next trip to study them more. They have just as good records there as we keep in Canada; the fact that the cemeteries are ancient in some cases and the records are not, doesn't disappoint me. What does bother me is the lack of a process to maintain the stones they do have. I'd say the current system of families being responsible for ancient stones is ridiculous. But, perpetual care is expensive. Ron PO Box 247, 353 William St., Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Canada L0S 1J0 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.264 / Virus Database: 136 - Release Date: 7/2/01