Jim- Thank you for the response. I have checked out that website of TN cemetaries, and yes, that is the place for it. What I borowed from my aunt, is a diagram with plots and names. Sadly, no dates are listed, but that would be a good project to take on..especially as you point out, spring is coming. Another sad note, I have seen the diagram before but this is the first time I've seen it with my parents on it. There are many there tho, that have no names..in the back of the cemetary, just rocks as headstones. I'm putting together a proposal for the cemetary committee on another issue with the cemetary and will, of course, run this by them. Hopefully, it will be a 'thumbs up" from them, and if so, that will be my go-ahead if no one else has this anywhere on the net. While I can respect Mr. Garrett's wish for more sales of his book, I think that the more of this info on the net the more people who benefit. Some would still wish to have to book, so it wouldn't totally eliminate sales. TO CATHERINE: Received your email..the books with more info are at work. I'll try to bring them home tomorrow. Thanks much, lori allenjm@bellsouth.net wrote: > > An excellent place to put the subject would be at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/tenn.html > > Everyone that might have a cemetery transcription should do so at that > url > > To my knowledge, the last cemetery transcriptions published was the > "Tombstone Records of Cheatham County Tennessee" Edited by Denis Dozier > Haile and James E. Garrett, Jr. > > There are still copies of this publication available but there have been > many burials since that have not been recorded. > > A conversation with Mr. Garrett some months back revealed that he was > not interested in > having the records of tombstones published on the internet as it might > hurt sales. > > There can be no prohibition, however, against anyone, going out and > transcribing the tombstones in a cemetery on their own and then posting > them to the internet at a url as > indicated above. That is what is currently being done with Forest Hill > Cemetery. We > have found several errors and ommissions from the 1985 publication and > have, of course, updated it and continue to include recent burials. > Thanks be to LUMPY-ONE@worldnet.att.net (She may be able to provide more > information regarding the "how to" of it all. > > It is presently a good time of the year to get out and read/transcribe > them tombstones and record them for posterity. > > Rsp Jim Allen > > P.S. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a > letter is "uncopyrightable" - read that somewhere - is applicable to > tombstone transcriptions.