This tip is an addition to Sylvia Sonneborn's tip to search cemeteries that are indexed and posted online free using the "Edit" and "Find” keys.

I would like to add that you can use this same feature to find an entire family that may be buried in the same cemetery. I was able to reconstruct several collateral families by using the “find" key on the cemetery code, and then using the censuses.

For example, some HAWKINS ancestors are buried in Cranston, Providence Co., Rhode Island. I used Google to find the Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project Index (www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/), and then searched for my Hawkins relatives. I discovered several Cranston cemeteries; so by searching the code number [such as CR003] I was able to list the birth and death dates of several HAWKINS. Then using the census for 1850, 1860, etc., I was able to put these names with the correct families in that area.

Later I discovered more of my HAWKINS family was buried in the cemetery coded PV003. Again, by searching for PV003 I found several Hawkins that I am now in the process of grouping into family units. Some maiden names have even been included in this cemetery database. What a find! And what a great database! Thank you RootsWeb and GenWeb!

ADN Editor's Note: Ancestry.com's sister site RootsWeb.com is at: www.rootsweb.com
and the USGenWeb Project is at: www.usgenweb.org/.

Thanks to Gail Krause of Appleton, Wisconsin, for today's Quick Tip! If you have a tip you would like to share with researchers, you can send it to ADNeditor@ancestry.com.

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