Hi: I found this quite interesting. I did not know of this practice. Can you explain this a little more? In the US we have a fit if we find unmarked graves, we need to know who they are so we can remark them. Thanks, Waldo ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Strock <bostrock@bright.net> To: <SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 10:15 AM Subject: [SWITZ] Re:Nettie Poe Ketcham's Tombstone Jean, I think you will be very lucky to find a tombstone that is 50 years old in Switzerland. Unless the person was well known. Most graves are normally turned over every 25-30 years and reused. We have some wonderful pictures of tombstones from my grandfathers home village but the dates are not that old. Bob Strock > > Subject: [SWITZ] Nettie Poe Ketcham > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:16:52 EST > From: LolaGF@aol.com > To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello List, > > I would like to ask the help of this list of someone who lives in Heimberg, > Switzerland. > > Elizabeth POE KETCHAM died January 27, 1950 at Berne, Switzerland and is > buried with the farmers of Heimberg, Switzerland. I don't know the name of > the cemetery. I am looking for a picture of her headstone to add to her web > page, at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Stage/4274/page39.htm > > If someone would know where this is located, I was wondering if some kind > person could find this cemetery and possibly take a picture of her headstone. > I would be most happy to pay costs. > > Thank you > Jean Hehn > Colorado, USA > -- Bob & Esther Strock, Dalton, OH. On the edge of Amish Country. Researching family history in Holmes, Medina, Stark, Summit, Wood, Wayne and other Counties of Ohio. Sponsor member of Rootsweb and listowner of Strock-L and Uhl-L message lists. GenConnect Family Association boards: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Strock http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Uhl ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html