I have been busy at work for a couple days and just now catching up with some of the mail.... My ancestors came from a little village (Fideris, pop 450-500) in Prattageau Valley, Canton Graubunden... When first visiting there in 1993, I thought well, there is the local Church and Cemetery I might just find LOTS of relatives buried there. My local cousins there quickly pointed out the fact that in that small cemetery the grave is recycled ever 25 years. In fact one of my distant cousins said that was the summer they would have to decide what to do with the stone from their infant daugher's grave. They were going to take it home and put it on their patio. Those unclaimed got ground/smashed up and used for gravel on the road into the cemetery. Others were along the wall of the cemetery. There were a few leg bones in the shed in the corner of the cemetery. The village next door, with a larger cemetery, had a policy or grave reuse after 35 years. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:43 PM Subject: SWITZERLAND-D Digest V02 #219