Susan, Your note just got a ref flag in my folder. Great info. Thank you!
Callaway County, specifically, is fantastic. Their historical society is very responsive by email (and are related, but then everyone is in Callaway County), and has worked hard at locating and preserving family cemetaries. Several cemetaries have been destroyed, most are disintegrating, and many remain undiscovered. They've extended open invitations for visiting, and will assist with arranging visits to cemetaries on private land. True Southern Hospitality. Which brings me to the next thought... GPS units. They seem pretty expensive, $100 and up. Anyone have suggestions? I am good with topo maps, and can mark up a topo map and record coordinates that way. But it looks like GPS with greater accuracy can get pinpoint places *within* a cemetary? Ed On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 09:18, Susan Malone wrote: > Actually, you can enter latitude and longitude manually in Legacy. If > you don't know them for a specific place, and it's not in Legacy, you > can try to find in online... > One place I use is the US Geological Survey national mapping information > site. This link takes you to a query form: > http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form and you > can select state, county, and for feature select one (like cemetery), > and see what comes up. Not every cemetery is listed there, but a > surprising number are. If they don't have it, you can try TopoZone to > see if they do. And if the cemetery isn't listed at USGS, they will > happily add it if you ask them too (but they are slow about it). I did a > quick search in Callaway Co, MO and there were 71 cemeteries listed. If > your cemetery is very small, it's likely not on the list, but you may > want to check anyway. And then, out of curiosity, I went to the Missouri > Gen Web site, and selected Callaway county- right on the first page is a > link to the USGS map showing all of the cemeteries they have on a map. > Great map... But, if what you are looking for still isn't there, try > contacting the county coordinator for suggestions on how you can locate > those tiny cemeteries... Maybe a local town/county historian, or a local > librarian... Perhaps you can try contacting the county land office and > see if they know what the coordinates are for a parcel of land? > If that doesn't work and you really want to have the lat and long in > your database, then I might try a google search for geocaching and see > what you can find. Maybe you can find a source for more coordinates, or > a volunteer from the area where you want to know the coordinates and see > if someone will go there and give them to you (like out at a farm). Just > a thought. > And of course, there is always the possibility of taking a trip to the > site, with a gps and see what the coordinates are and recording them > yourself for your posterity :-) > Best wishes, > Susan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed > Barnard > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What good is the geo location database? > > > Susan and Sandra, > > I'm still missing something. > > 1. I can see how it's useful if I have exact latitude and longitude, > either from GPS or from studying online maps, satellite, and arial > photos. I'll try that. > > 2. It seems useless - which means I'm missing something - for historical > locations. Let me give a couple of examples: > > A. Andrew is from Albemarle County Virginia, and shows on the > Fredericksville Parish section of the 1820 census. The geo location > thing shows no listing for Fredericksville Parish in Albemarle County. > For my location I have typed "Albemarle County VA" and don't see any way > of improving on that. > > B. I have various single-family pioneer cemetaries for Callaway County > Missouri. They aren't in any town that Geo Location lists for Callaway > County. They're simply on someone's family farm. I have plat references, > which I could convert to latitude/longitide, > > no... wait... I don't see any way to enter latitude/longitude. > > Okay... perhaps it's useful when I have a specific current-day township? > > Ed > > > I use it every time I find a new location in my files. Just the other > > > day I had a location in Germany and entered what I had then clicked > > on the geo and ta-da got the correct wording. When I first imported > > "ALL" of the locations into my files, I decided that I was going to > > do it however geo data base did it thus where I live is now > > Sacramento, Sacramento, California, USA, I had it Sacramento, > > Sacramento, CA > > > > but with the way that geo lists it I know instantly if I have checked > > > it against the geo location list or not because there is an USA at the > > > end .So, I guess I use it to make sure that I have the right county > > and the right spelling for the location I WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT IT > > > > Rootsweb.com Admin: {for} Caplinger, Duncan, Forsythe, Mounce, > > Schoonover, Tyler, Vanscoy, Wilmoth, Zane > > > > Sandra Tyler Duncan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1 > > *-* THE GREATEST*-* > > http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm > > ================================ > > Work like you don't need the money. > > Love like you've never been hurt. > > Dance like nobody's looking. > > > --------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. > http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
