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    1. [WIG LIST] Tracing elusive rellies..tip
    2. Anton McLoughlin
    3. Hi All I have a standard procedure in that for each death cert I pull or if I know from an MI a year of death.......i contact the Berevements section of the local government council and ask them for the interrment details with a twist.. I tell them by email the person's name, age, date of death,their religious denomination and last known address or town/village And ask them for the following: Place and date of interrment Lair number and section of the Kirkyard WHO ELSE IS INTERRED IN THE LAIR WHO IS THE LAIR OWNER and when was it purchase I have done this all over England/Wales and Scotland and have always got free answers by email some within 48 hrs. Now for the DumGall area i.e WGT, KKD and DFS the email address for enquiries is: CIS@dumgal.gov.uk They then fwd the enquiry to their local office in the indicated area of place of death...they then look up to see if they have the details and then send them to you pronto. They are the best I have ever contacted... >From this I have found: Additional rellies in the lair Infant deaths Additonal info on the owner of the lair like the address when they bought the lair. Also I had an unusual anomaly in DFS High Cemetery....my rellie died in 1894 as per death cert and another family stone on a different lair....the burial registers shows the date of burial as 1904 !!....they cannot explain the oversight. It is the right lair as she was laid to rest with her infant daughter whose birth entry I had.. Also as my rellies produced lots of sprogs there is a double plot again in DFS High Cemetery and each plot has a stone with the names of the family interred in each plot.....or so my cousin assumed......when I checked the burial registers it proved a different matter as there was a third plot hitherto unknown to us and the people were jumbled up across the three plots..one of which had no stone....and bore no resemblence to the information on the stone except collectively on two stones all in the three lairs were accounted for..... Regards Anton

    07/18/2007 12:16:45