I was asked once why why check books on old cemetery records - especially if they haven't been updated since the 50s, 60s or 70s. If you've never searched out and recorded an old family cemetery, maybe it sounds strange to you to have the old burials recorded. Maybe you've overlooked these books published years ago thinking they were no longer useful to you as a researcher. But, when you think more deeply, they are very important. Let's say someone copied the old family cemetery back in the 1940s. That's over 70 years ago. The stones were likely more readable whereas today they might be almost impossible to read. Stones that were there in the 40s could be missing now - broken down by cattle, sunk into the ground, broken into pieces by being hit or from a tree growing through the stone, hiding under briars. Perhaps too that someone in more current times have recopied the stones in the cemetery. Some dates or names might not match up totally from the older records. Why? (1) the older transcription might have been made when techniques of reading them were not as well known and a mistake had been made. (2) Transcription errors when typing or handwriting up the names and dates, or (3) possibly the older transcription is the accurate one. How many of us checking cemeteries had a digital camera with us to snap a picture of the stone as it appeared in the 40's (or any date)? So, if one finds a difference, note it and attempt to rectify the difference. I would encourage you to take your camera with you and snap pictures of the stones, then send a copy to either Find-A-Grave or here in south central KY, also to Ray Green who has a marvelous site with thousands of pictures of cemeteries and graves in this area. You can submit pictures to him at: http://www.so-ky.com/cem/cemeteries.htm Give Ray the name of the cemetery and any information you might have. Some years from now - that stone might not be there! Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky