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From: "D. Sue Kissel" <>
Subject: Re: [AZ-CEMETERIES] AZCemeteries
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:03:52 -0700
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http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnisprod
has 12 cemeteries listed for Pinal.
Have you checked Arizona death records : an index compiled from mortuary,
cemetery, and church records to see how many cemeteries they have listed for
Pinal County?
Sue
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gail Meyer Kilgore" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: [AZ-CEMETERIES] AZCemeteries


> Well, I don't know where to start on this one...
>
> I just got a return call from the Dept of Real Estate and they DO NOT have
a
> listing of cemeteries in this state. I find that hard to believe.
>
> Just to explain myself a little bit, I also have this same type of mail
list
> for the State of Colorado where I used to live. As a group, cemeteries
have
> been located documented, transcribed or are being transcribed and
> photographed and listed on the Tombstone project with the USGenWeb.
>
> Everyone who finds a lone grave documents it in their county as well as
all
> the private family plots as well as the regular cemeteries in the county.
> Anywhere that there has been a person or persons buried, we are trying to
> document. I have a filing box separate on the cemeteries in CO.
>
> Since I live here, I thought that I would, within the state that I am
living
> in, try and do the same thing. I can take Pinal County alone and looking
at
> the listings on the Tombstone Project and see that there are hardly any
> cemeteries in this county even listed on that page let alone trying to
find
> someone to transcribe that cemetery. I think that Pinal Co. has Florence
> and Eloy listed as the cemeteries in this county, I know of two cemeteries
> right here in Casa Grande that are not listed on the Tombstone Project and
> the cemetery at Coolidge and then what about all the other towns in the
> county and their cemeteries.
>
> Kristi, I know that you are not in AZ and am wondering how much more work
> you want to do as far as getting AZ on line with the project? This is
> really a shame that we do not even have a listing of our cemeteries.
>
> Those of you that are in the state and are volunteers, could you give me a
> complete list of all the cemeteries that you know or can find in your
> county? Also, can you give directions to those cemeteries or coordinates?
> Please use this list for this type of traffic, that is what we are here
for
> to locate and document our cemeteries and to help in the preservation of
> them when we can. Also, to help others find their family members buried
> here.
>
> Thank goodness we do not have a lot of counties but we have a lot of open
> and big counties in the state.
>
> I would like to list each county and all the cemeteries that can be
located
> within that county, can we do this as a group?? This would be a HUGE
> project for a few of us to undertake but we could at least get it
started...
> any comments???? any volunteers????
>
> Gail
>
>
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