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From: "roser" <>
Subject: Re: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] County/State
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:15:58 -0400
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Please don't apologize for good intentions, which yours were.
Rosalie



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Silver" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] County/State


> I'm really sorry since it seems I started this. I was trying to help
Angela
> find outside support. She has been keeping the Indiana Pioneer
Restoration
> Project listers up to date on her efforts to convince her county
> commisisoners they need to create a cemetery commission. I have found
that
> letting the larger lists in on these matters and asking for them to let
the
> "locals" know the "world IS watching" sometimes helps. Angela's original
> message, which I forwarded in my message, used the
> heading and I assumed most anyone in touch with cemetery issues knew about
> the Indiana Group.
>
> It was I that did not identify that Angela's Hancock County is in Indiana.
> And that it is the Hancock County, Indiana county commissioners who
> apparently do not value their historic grave yards. Their dead must pay
> fewer taxes than ours....
>
> My apologies,
>
> Sue Silver
> El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission
> California
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ceridwen <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 12:10 PM
> Subject: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] County/State
>
>
> > There are 12 states in the US that have a Hancock County. Duplicate
> > county names are not at all unusual; duplicate town names are also
> > common. That is why it is important to always list State & County when
> > providing information or making queries. Some county names are more
> > common than others--for instance, there are 34 Washington Counties in
> > the US, plus Washington Parish in Louisiana. Take the extra time to put
> > the state name on your genealogical correspondence. People receiving
> > information will thank you, and people who might have information for
> > you will find it faster if they know where they are supposed to be
> looking.
> >
> > *CERIDWEN*
> > who had ancestors who moved from Sullivan, Moultrie Co, IL to
> > Sullivan, MO...and it took years to figure out if it was Sullivan the
> > town or Sullivan the County!
> >
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > There is also a Hancock County in Ohio.
> > > Norma
> >
> >
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