Did you know..................... Durban - The Johannesburg Metro will soon launch an internet service where people can determine within an hour after a funeral where exactly someone had been buried. This service will be up and running within the next three weeks, Luther Williamson, chief manager of the Johannesburg parks division, said at the first national conference on cemeteries and crematoriums in Durban on Thursday. "It is important to be able to analyse the number of deaths and burials," Williamson added. Contrary to what was expected regarding the HIV/Aids pandemic, the number of burials in the Johannesburg metropolitan area has dropped, he said. Williamson said this might be because people who die in Johannesburg are rather buried in their place of birth. Speakers from various local authorities all over the country said they were still trying to address the inequalities caused by apartheid in, for example, planning of cemeteries and record keeping. Obed Mlaba, mayor of Durban, said it was still impossible to get statistics of black people's graves. Williamson and John Pitout, head of parks in the Nelson Mandela metropolitan council in the Eastern Cape, pleaded for a national online database of graves. kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm