This issue needs to be addressed. If you can't find who you are looking for in the Alamo Masonic Cemetery, this may be why. I am sure this has happened to other cemeteries and am not fussing at the Masons. G. Winters ======================================================= What do you do when you discover missing graves in a roadway? This afternoon I was dowsing for graves in Strangers' Row, and the police officer on duty was somewhat doubtful of my method. Most people are, but I learned about it thru a mailing list, and it works, even worked several years ago for Mamma who thought I had truly lost my mind, hid in the car. I figured the officer had the heart for it, so I handed him the dowsers and they worked right away. We were horrified to see the dowser keep going as he walked across the road. Then we realized the original path must have only been 6 feet wide, not a road at all. The officer got a call that somebody was trying to jump off the railroad bridge so he had to leave, but another gentleman showed up (the one who has now donated the website to the cemetery, he does that for a living) and we continued the search. To our horror, we have discovered that all of the "roads" except for the main one thru the center, were originally paths. There are graves under one side road that is paved. I have no idea how wide the main road really is. These are all roads within the cemetery, not the public streets. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can identify these truly forgotten people? What records do I look for? Where? Thanks, Sarah

Do you literally mean "dowsing" as for water? What do you use & how does this work! Fascinating! Now where is this location you speak of with graves under the paved road? I know of an incident of a similar happening in Bell Co. TX. whereby the people who do this roadwork( and I won't mention names) discovered their road-scrappers were digging up skeleton remains from what later turned out to be burials for paupers from a poor farm; from my understanding, workers reported this, but I have no idea if anything was done to bury these skeletal remains elsewhere! Cannot help but wonder how often in the past, this has happened! Linda Howard Jaschke g.winters wrote: > This issue needs to be addressed. If you can't find who you are looking for in the Alamo Masonic Cemetery, this may be why. I am sure this has happened to other cemeteries and am not fussing at the Masons. >G. Winters >======================================================= >What do you do when you discover missing graves in a roadway? This afternoon I was dowsing for graves in Strangers' Row, and the police officer on duty was somewhat doubtful of my method. Most people are, but I learned about it thru a mailing list, and it works, even worked several years ago for Mamma who thought I had truly lost my mind, hid in the car. > >I figured the officer had the heart for it, so I handed him the dowsers and they worked right away. We were horrified to see the dowser keep going as he walked across the road. Then we realized the original path must have only been 6 feet wide, not a road at all. The officer got a call that somebody was trying to jump off the railroad bridge so he had to leave, but another gentleman showed up (the one who has now donated the website to the cemetery, he does that for a living) and we continued the search. To our horror, we have discovered that all of the "roads" except for the main one thru the center, were originally paths. There are graves under one side road that is paved. I have no idea how wide the main road really is. These are all roads within the cemetery, not the public streets. > Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can identify these truly forgotten people? What records do I look for? Where? > >Thanks, >Sarah > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > >