I want to talk about old cemeteries, why they are important and what you can learn from them. Say as a caveat, a lot of the rationale behind finding researchs, mine is that is focused on old africanamerican cemeteries, very often it pertains to other cemeteries of various backgrounds, but i focused on the virginia piedmont, specifically areas in central virginia, nelson county, it has to do with where i lived and the counties i commuted through to go to work. [laughter] so, it means that if you are asking about counties not on that route, take a good guess. Within those counties, most of them are in amherst county, that is where the 150 cemeteries are that i visited and studied for this research. On the map in the lower righthand corner, dont worry there will not be a quiz but the numbers you are looking at seem to be the founding of these counties by european americans. I would also point out that if your interests are in native american Burial Grounds, those of course date back tens