The laws regarding cemeteries & family graveyards are on the web at www.graveyards.org/va_law.html There are quite a few pages of information & you'll probably have to search for what you want but it's all there I think. The Heath family had a similar problem a few years ago with a family burial plot that was on the property at Bell Creek Rd. & Mechanicsville Turnpike. Although some members of the family tried to get the WalMart project delayed in order to find the graves, it went through anyway. After the store was built an effort to locate the graves was made but was unsuccessful. Walmart had a monument placed at Gethsemane Church of Christ in remembrance of those buried at the site. Hopefully the family of those in the graveyard in question will have greater success in their efforts. Sandra Heath GentryGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com