Cemetery Search

[charlotteCH]

And sometimes the "keeping on looking for it" goes on for years...

But be encouraged... shake enough trees and bits all out that eventually give you what facts you need.
So just keep plugging on

charlotte

[Lisa in California]

Maureen, years ago my mum and I visited an old cemetery in Toronto, Canada.  We were told (by relatives) that her greatgrandparents were buried in the cemetery and given an area of the cemetery to search.

We could not find the headstone, even though we searched the area several times.  We assumed someone had made a mistake and left the cemetery without locating the headstone.  A few years later we found out the headstone was there; somehow we had missed seeing it.

In your case, perhaps you missed the stone as well?  Perhaps it had toppled at one point?  Perhaps the family just never got around to putting one up?

[charlotteCH]

Hi again Maureen , Like Lisa I went to a cemetery and got it wrong- I went to  the Blue Church cemetery in Ontario to find graves of relatives but misread/misunderstood the book with MIs in it- I assumed quite incorrectly, that the graves were ordered in relation to one another as the MIs were in the book.
Later I learned that there was an obelisk and several graves for my people- and I stood only a dozen metres away unaware that I got it wrong.

charlotte

[Jacquie in Canada]

Also keep in mind that a grave might not be marked if the family couldn't afford a headstone.

Jacquie