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From: "b_waiting" <>
Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Finding a date of birth in 1800-1850 records
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:43 -0500
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Norm,

Thank you so much! This is a big help.

Barbara


----- Original Message -----
From: "Norm Hellmers" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Finding a date of birth in 1800-1850 records


>
> Barbara,
>
> Fred Hatfield’s website of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is excellent, but
> unfortunately, unique.
>
> Dee Brunner Beck has taken pictures and transcribed inscriptions in many
> cemeteries. These can be found under “Cemeteries & Burial Records” here:
> http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans.htm
> This section also includes pictures and transcriptions submitted by others
> as well as some transcribed records, such as those for St. Joseph
> Cemetery.
>
> Information on a project by the University of Pennsylvania on St. Louis
> Cemetery, No. 1 is available online. See:
> http://cml.upenn.edu/nola/
> Their website includes a search feature, but only for the family names on
> the tombs:
> http://cml.upenn.edu/nola/Searchpgs/L0Introtombsrch2.asp
> The website says that "a future capability will show all names on record,"
> which sounds pretty encouraging, but they give no time frame for this
> capability.
>
> Other than these, I don’t know what else might be online. As you would
> know, New Orleans has many cemeteries and most of them are huge. Dealing
> with the interment records and the tomb inscriptions is not a simple
> matter. I have many ancestors in New Orleans whose burial places I have
> never found, despite nearly 50 years of looking.
>
> Norm
>
> --- On Thu, 7/30/09, b_waiting <> wrote:
> . . .
>> Are there any other web sites like this one
>> for the other cemeteries in New Orleans?
> . . .
>
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