Does anyone know how to get small cemeteries added to the GNIS? I've heard that engineers use GNIS to help avoid cemeteries when planning roads, etc. If some of them aren't on the list, then the planners don't find out until (too) late in the process. Jay Hollingsworth Researching CLEMENT and DICKINSON in TN/NC/VA > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [TNHENDER] GNIS is of limited help > From: > David Donahue <ddonahue@netease.net> > Date: > Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:44:19 -0600 > To: > TNHENDER-L@rootsweb.com > > > For most counties, GNIS will only have 1/3 to 1/5 of all cemeteries. > Small cemeteries like the Dodd cemeteries usually do not appear, though > you will never know without looking. Neither Granny Austin nor Prospect > appear. > > GNIS does not show any of the major cemeteries in Middleburg (Smith > Chapel, Crowell, Oak Grove, Judson, each with more than 100 burials), > but does show the Powers Cemetery which has maybe four markers, and > Presley Cemetery which no longer exists. > > Some moderately large Henderson Co. cemeteries not shown are Grandsire > Holmes, Maple Springs, Parker's Crossroads, Pleasant Hill (black), > Scotts Hill Methodist, and Sand Ridge. Pleasant Grove cemetery appears > but you have to know the cemetery's other name. {I only know one person > who knows the other name.) > > The locations also can be wrong. Chumney Cemetery is shown at the > location of Flat Creek Cemetery. > > David >