Hey all... Need some advice on how to handle some cemetery relocation issues.
First, if a person was buried in Cemetery X, but relocated to Cemetery Y, I've been recording it as follows: Original burial information to Burial DatePlace Field Attach Cemetery Event Address to Burial Date/Place Field Reinterment information to Reburial Event Fields. Add Cemetery name to "Description" Attach Cemetery Event Address to Event That's pretty straight forward -- record the event as it occurred at the time in the principal field (Burial) and the successive event as an Event. But, I've recently come across a number of ancestors for whom their *headstones* were relocated to a different cemetery, but their corpses *were not disinterred*. This is now challenging me as to how to record the location of the headstone. For those who may have New England ancestors, this issue arises in Connecticut where at least two 17th century towns, New Haven and Guilford, relocated the headstones of the dead buried on their town commons to cemeteries established in the early 19th century. In both cases, only the headstones were moved--the corpses remain buried under the town common, the exact site of the graves now lost to history. It seems obvious to record the original burial information as above -- but how to denote the relocation of the headstone? It's important to keep track of, if for no other reason than to explain the plethora of Find a Grave and other memorials that seem to indicate burial occurred in these newer cemeteries (I'm working with Find a Grave in hopes of cleaning this up). I suppose the best way is to record this as a burial note. Your thoughts? If so, then for consistency, should I use Burial notes for actual reinterment of corpses instead of Events? Lastly -- how do you record cemeteries? Do you use Event Addresses like I do, attaching them to the Burial field, do you use Events, or something else? Thanks, Scott
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