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Subject: Re: [TN-CEMETERIES] Informal Cemetery Transcription Survey
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:15:35 EST


Thank you for taking the time and effort to get this feedback!!!

I personally hate to go to a county site where there is only an index of the
cemeteries. Even if I have district or township info from censuses, I still
have no idea what cemetery to search, and I don't often have time to browse
each cemetery's listings.

If a search engine could give the individual name AND the name of the
cemetery, that would be wonderful! One would then know where to specifically look,
and also could browse that cemetery for other likely family members that might
be buried nearby or to search for name spelling variations.

Years ago when I was researching extensively in Greene Co. AR, the website
did not have a search engine, but it did have an alphabetical index of
individuals' names and showed the cemetery where buried. You could then go separately
to each cemetery's complete listing and get all the tombstone info. The
individual cemeteries also showed the cemetery address and general directions to
its location.

Thanks again for this considerate--and considerable--effort.

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