Everyone, I was wondering if there might be an interest in this. I've been working on pinpointing cemeteries on the USGS Quad topographic maps. Initially I started doing this so I could see which cemeteries I'd been at and which ones I still needed to go to, but then I thought that others might have an interest in these maps for their own research. I've loaded up the Big A Mountain quad for everyone to look at and see what you think. It's in pdf form. The link to download the map is: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~varussel/cemeteries/Big_A_Mountain.pdf To be able to use all the features, you may also need the TerraGo Toolbar. This is a neat toolbar used by Adobe Acrobat and the Acrobat Reader. It allows you to view the longitude and latitude coordinates on the map a well as allowing you to measure distances and areas and has a few other features. If you want to download that here's the link to it: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~varussel/cemeteries/TerraGo_Toolbar.exe Now, as a key to the map. I've placed several different color notes at cemetery locations. The yellow notes indicate cemeteries that I've either personally been to or have the info about whose buried there. The red notes indicate cemeteries that I don't yet have info on and still need to visit. The blue notes are cemeteries that I think I have the info on but I need to revisit to confirm the name of the cemetery. Actually, two of the red note cemeteries, the Honaker-Wilson & Ira Ray cemeteries in the bottom part of the map, I've been to, but must have misplaced the data and am still trying to locate it. You can see the name of each cemetery by just moving your mouse pointer over the note for each one. Another neat little feature that I can do is to include the people buried in the cemeteries within the notes. Check out the Moses Harris and Jackson Cemeteries in the bottom right corner of the map (just move you over the notes and then double click the note to see all the data.) I've been thinking about re-doing the cemetery books the Taylors did years ago and finishing the series (they stopped with many cemeteries not yet charted). Now I'm trying to decide whether to put them out in book form by USGS Quad with an included CD showing their locations or to include to persons buried in each cemetery directly on CDs. I like the idea of being able to view them directly on CDs, but think putting it in book form would be more practical. By the way, we went down to Russell Co. this past week and I went trampsing around the mountains in the Lynn Spring and Hollow Poplar Ridge areas placing a few of the cemeteries I already had as well as locating a few new ones I previously was unaware of, including ones where Confederate soldiers John G. Hurt & Jerome Bonaparte Whited are buried. My next toy's going to be a handheld gps device with topographic maps installed :) Mike