Thanks for the responses so far. Kathy -- I have a couple of clarifying questions/points for you..
One, by Burial Event, are you saying you record the Cemetery in the Events/Fact section, and not as an Event Address (reached by clicking the + sign after the Burial Date/Place field)? Just wanted to confirm. Second, my core question was about the relocation of a headstone -- not the corpse. In the case I mentioned, no bodies were ever exhumed/disinterred. Their headstones were simply picked up and relocated to a different cemetery. The bodies themselves (whats left of them anyway) remain buried under the now public park. I think, after this thread, and consideration, the burial notes field is the best to indicate the relocation of the headstone. Now, to get FAG to help clean up all the wrong information on the memorials. Much bigger problem! -- well over 1,000 memorials indicate incorrect burial locations. Maybe Find A Grave should be renamed Find A Headstone. Might be more accurate. :) On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 3:53 PM Ms Mary K. Lund via LegacyUserGroup < legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> wrote: > Scott, > > If people are buried and then moved, I would record the first interment > (as usually noted on a death certificate, if any) as the Burial event. If > the body is subsequently moved, I would note that in the note section with > the place and date, if known. > > If the body were formally exhumed for some reason, I would make that a > separate event with an explanation. This would apply to those you mention > being removed from the town commons. > > In some cases it might depend on which burial has the most information. In > the past people were reburied in cases of a second marriage, or person > dying young in a different location from subsequent family burials. > > A cremated person can be buried in multiple locations! > > Kathy > > On Sunday, January 10, 2021, 10:05:51 AM CST, Scott Hall < > seh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >
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