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From: "Bill Thornton" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Plotting a cemetery
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:56:48 -0600
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Please,
Come back to me.
We are trying to map a 150 + year old cemetery.

Bill Thornton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:30 AM
Subject: [TXCem] Plotting a cemetery


> Have you ever used Excel to plot a cemetery? I've been working on a
fairly
> large cemetery, so I just used it to show 38 rows across and 97 rows down.
> I am NOT using it for actual dimensions. These rows are pretty irregular
and
> I winged it in several places but it is good enough for my purpose.
>
> The historic old New Braunfels Cemetery has approximately 1,240 burials,
and
> over 500 headstones are missing. I just finished plotting the graves out
in
> Excel, making each cell a grave. I typed in all the names that I knew,
based
> on existing tombstones, last name first. It is easy to click in a line
> around a family plot. Once I got thru I told the printer to print it out 2
> sheets tall and 4 sheets wide. Then I taped them together, and took them
to
> Kinkos where they enlarged it to about 3' wide. I want to take it to the
> German meeting in Yoakum this weekend, with a scale large enough to be
able
> to write in any graves or plots people know about. I can also compare
names
> on the list to guesstimate where people might belong.
>
> The City of New Braunfels has no accurate documentation, so we transcribed
> the existing tombstones and the old burials from 1873-1917 into Excel. The
> graves with tombstones had a separate column with a T in it, so as I went
> thru comparing old records to tombstones, I could delete duplicates. Now I
> can sort them various ways...by surname, maiden name, date etc. I can
color
> cells to highlight them, as an example the burials of the founding
families.
> First Founders by Everett Fey mentions in which cemetery many of the
> families were buried, so it has been a great help.
>
> I wish I knew more about Excel, because I am sure there would be a way to
> link the alphabetical list to the grave cell on the plan. Maybe next time.
>
> Sarah in San Antonio
>
>
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