On 23 January 2012 00:51, Richard Farmbrough <[email protected]>wrote:

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> I will also add that while I was visiting South Mimms graveyard (in the
> village, not the service station) many years ago, I happened across a
> gentleman recording the details of the graves, of which (other than the
> organization for which he was volunteering) there was no central record.
>
> That's a whole big area, properly called "monumental inscriptions". Many
graveyards and cemeteries have groups who record what is on the monuments,
and/or maintain the place, and sometimes they keep a database of
information about who is buried there. There is no centralisation, though,
at present. It is a microcosm of the whole area, really.

Charles
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