Is the microfilm of the original register?  Or is it of the cards mentioned
in the initial post?  When was the film made?

As a check, you can search out a two volume set covering the records up to
31 Dec 1950, transcribed (apparently from the original handwritten register)
by Miss A. [Alice] Böhmer Rudd.  She states in her introduction that she
began copying the records "years ago" in the brick building at 210 Hospital
Street (across from the gate) when Mr. Thomas B. Morton was Superintendent.
The volumes were self-published about 1960.  LC No.  F234  R5  R8  1960

She shows (v2, p 203) John Grotts, bur 3 Feb 1930, age 54y 2m 4d, died in
Richmond.  Thus, the spelling error for John Grotts [sic] appears to have
been in the original.


As for the correction issue... "His mother in law, whose name I
have in the family Bible and written by her own father as "Ida", was
listed as "Ina." For some reason she seems to be "Ina" in most places
now, it will probably never be corrected." ...

Scan the bible pages and send copies to libraries as well as post on the
web.  A Bible, privately held and out of public view, will do nothing to
correct errors.  Let everyone see the original handwritten entries and add a
transcription if you like.



On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The library has the listings on microfilm as well and think there is a map
> on one of them that I remember.  They are not only inaccurate but
> incomplete.  There is a family marker in the cemetery that has 4 people's
> names on it but the records only lists 1 of them!
>
> Eric
>
>
> Original Message:
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> From: Sunshine49 [log in to unmask]
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:00:40 -0500
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Shockoe Cem records
>
>
> I recently went to Riverview Cemetery to look at some things in the
> Shockoe Cemetery records, which are there. The guy there didn't have
> a lot of faith in the accuracy of the records, and I must say, I
> agree. Speaking of wrong names, my own grandfather, whose last name
> was Grotz, is listed as "Grotts." His mother in law, whose name I
> have in the family Bible and written by her own father as "Ida", was
> listed as "Ina." For some reason she seems to be "Ina" in most places
> now, it will probably never be corrected. My gr-gr-gr grandfather's
> middle initial was different from any other I had seen [he seems to
> have had several]. The names are all on typed index cards in a huge
> file cabinet, and on each card there is a referral to the plot and
> space where they are buried, which are all referenced in a set of
> ledgers, with all the graves in each plot listed, and each plot on a
> separate page. But I suspect here, too, there are errors. But what I
> wondered is where the original ledger that listed the burials has
> been taken to? Those typed index cards look like they were done in
> maybe the 1920s [just an educated guess] and later. But they were
> taken from an older book that listed all these burials, names,
> occupations for many, and place and cause of death. Where is this
> book? I believe it was still in the cemetery office in the old
> building across Hospital Street from Shockoe Cemetery as recently as
> the 1970s. But the building now seems to be apartments, and the
> groundskeeper's office is no longer there. Though when we went to the
> cemetery later that day, we did luck onto a man who works there, who
> had a map that showed the locations of all these numbered plats and
> graves, and he helped us find the exact locations of several.
>
> So the extant records for Shockoe Cemetery can be very helpful, but
> beware of errors. And where is the original record book?
>
> Nancy
>
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