Talk:United States Cemeteries

Individual Cemetery Pages
I guess I will be the first to start this discussion and hope that someone else contributes. Should there be individual pages for cemeteries? I was compiling information for cemeteries in a county and there were so many cemeteries and so much information on each that it seemed absurd to keep it all on the main page. Any ideas? Gregorybean 15:45, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Good morning, Gregory. You're absolutely right! The general guideline is if any page gets too big, then it needs to be divided. So if there is that much information available on the cemeteries of a county, perhaps the county page should contain a brief description of cemeteries for that county and then a separate page be created for each cemetery, with links back to the county page. We're not talking about an abstract of all the names of people buried in the cemeteries, are we. That is not the purpose of FamilySearch Wiki. The purpose of this Wiki is to describe such lists and provide links to them, but not to place the database on our site. What county and state are we talking about?Jbparker 16:00, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I am working on Virginia right now, but I think that every county will experience the same thing. I think that when people begin to list cemeteries, they should list each as a hyperlink to a new page. Even if they do not create it, it may encourage someone else who knows about the cemetery to build the page. See Queen Anne's County, Maryland and Alleghany County, Virginia for examples. Gregorybean 07:52, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I really like your approach. As these cemetery pages are established, information about the history of the cemetery (first burials there, whether or not it is a currently-used cemetery, affiliation to city, family, church, lodge, etc., and GPS coordinates would all be very helpful. Incidentally, the same approach will need to be taken for churches in each county. Obviously, this is a very large and long-range project, but one which be invaluable to a researcher. And it's something that could well encourage contributions by local individuals, historical societies, etc. I've taken a little bit different approach in Idaho (see Bannock County, Idaho as an example), but I think I will adapt to your approach, as time permits. Jbparker 14:01, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

I have been creating these pages with the cemetery name and then the jurisdiction afterward. I do this because there are so many cemeteries with the same name, many will undoubtedly need that specification to distinguish between cemeteries (i.e. Mount Pleasant Cemetery). Additionally, it makes it easy to quickly see in what jurisdiction a cemetery is located. Unfortunately, when you pile all of these cemeteries into a category (click Category:Cemeteries in Virginia below) it looks chunky. Is this a good way of doing these pages? Or should I only distinguish as it becomes pertinent?