From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jan 12 04:26:04 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0CBQ4SK019775; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:26:04 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0CBPuYT015768 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:25:56 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0C8x4FI024711 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:59:04 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k0C8x4mn024710 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:59:04 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0C6bkFI024422 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:37:46 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k0C94RPN026124 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:04:27 -0700 X-Envelope-From: emschmidt@cableone.net Thu Jan 12 02:04:27 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0C94RSK026109 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:04:27 -0700 Received: from S4.cableone.net (s4.cableone.net [24.116.0.230]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0C94POl002820 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:04:26 -0700 Received: from DG47H421 (unverified [24.116.229.142]) by S4.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S4) with ESMTP id 42451810 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:32:16 -0700 Message-ID: <000801c61757$29c52f60$8ee57418@DG47H421> From: "emschmidt" To: Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:04:15 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 5, First 22, in=8, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.116.229.142 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Cora Williams----? On Cemeteries I was interested in the locations that you have checked to find cemeteries. I had not thought about locating them this way. However, I have used the Register of Deeds offices very often in finding info on people that have died recently. They can point me to local historical societies or funeral homes and sometimes they are familiar enough with the name to give the location of where that person had lived. These are small towns that have a very inactive Chamber of Commerce. I was lucky enough in central Iowa to find a funeral home that had been in the family for several generations and had kept records. In another instance in the same county, there were two funeral homes--one had handled the funerals for the wives and another had handled the funeral of the man in the past 4-5 years and on a ways back for the wives. From the man's information (he had died last with no children), I was able to find who had made the funeral arrangements and in a short time with the help of a friendly historian, I found the whole family of my greatgrandmother. Our family had not had a clue about these people before. This was done entirely by phone. Some of the ceneteries are owned and taken care of by the City and the caretakers are friendly and helpful (City Hall). I have found the Chambers of Commerce very helpful in the larger towns. I have also called local banks in small towns for info on local historians or for the name of a library. And how about the local cafe for coffee time --for old timers, again in small towns. So, I guess, the county seats are the first place that I check in a new area, especially if I think that the people for whom I am looking owned property even way back to Homestead Land. When people sell property, the names of the people who sell sometimes give new info and the new home of the sellers is sometimes found. This is a little different from cemeteries, I know, but I use somewhat the same routine. This was all High Plains and Midwest locations and farming country. It would probably be different in other areas.