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WikiProject New York Progress Chart  New York Project Tasks - Cemetery Records: Intro

Task
Wiki Project New York Tasks - Cemetery Records: Intro task

Description
To add an introduction to the cemetery records heading and instructions on how to find cemetery records.

Instructions
1. Wiki text tables are organized by by column. The following table has three columns. Records are listed in groups of three as they appear horizontally on the table. The first record in each group is an online listing of individuals found in county cemetery records. The second record in each group is a published listing individuals found in county cemetery records. The third record in each group is a directory of cemeteries found in the county.

2. Open this page in wiki text. Copy the following introduction and table and paste it in wiki text under the heading Cemetery Records:

Cemetery records often reveal birth, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

3. a. Open the following URL in an Internet page Find a grave - Map of Cemeteries in Otsego County http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/mapCems.cgi?countryer=4&stater=36&countyId=2020&searchType=allCems In the top left search box, find your county and open the cemetery page for your county. Locate the county Id number in the new URL, following the words, countyId=[****]. Copy and paste this number in the following wiki sentence: Find a grave - Map of Cemeteries in [your county County] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/mapCems.cgi?countryer=4&stater=36&countyId=2020&searchType=allCems Put your county name in the brackets

Example
Cemetery records often reveal birth, death, relationship, military, and religious information.


 * Find a grave - Map of Cemeteries in Otsego County
 * Middlefield Baptist Cemetery, Middlefield. There is inventory with genealogical information written by Dominick J. Reisen, "Inscriptions from the Middlefield Baptist Cemetery", 2002, available at nominal cost from Dominick J. Reisen. This book also has a plot map. More information.