Well, Since I have been spending the time to try and get the tombstones online for the Azores, I thought of the idea that it would be super easy if I just reached out to the source directly. So I contacted either the cemetery (if it was big enough that I could find the email address of a specific person to contact) or the Council itself.
I got a great many replies to my query about what their current exhumation period / burial duration was and whether or not they would be willing to send copies of cemetery records, and I explained what I was doing with it. It seems sometimes the Council sets an exhumation dates, and sometimes its just the individual church: very locality specific. Anyways, several of them actually sent me rosters of all the people that have been interred in recent years that they had computerized, and rosters of people whose remains were 'set for exhumation' (unless the family takes action), one had the records in an excel going back a hundred years, and other charts/diagrams that they had and were willing to share. Of course, most of my queries went unanswered, but I did get alot of data, and information out of it. Only one actually responded with a decline to provide info, the rest were extraordinarily helpful. That is how I put together the ranges I previously posted... , Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
