Adding a Private Family Burial Ground Category

Question

I have a family that kept a private burial ground in Annapolis county, Nova Scotia. The burial ground was surveyed in 1966. There are eleven burials there. Or, more correctly, there are eight certain burials and three family stones that were moved from a nearby cemetery. (That also has no category.)

Genweb volunteers named it “Bent Cemetery” when they transcribed the survey onto RootsWeb. 

I find I’ve wandered into this family (many of them are CC7 for me) and am hesitant to create the cemetery category, myself. 

The Find a Grave link to a description of the burial ground can be found here: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2722379/bent-burial-ground

The nearby Eagleson Cemetery is also a private burial ground with 60 memorials, some of whom are also in this family.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2526584/eagleson-cemetery

I’d be happy to add them, myself, if I can be certain I’m putting them into the correct parent category, and also what name I ought to give them.

Answer 1

Famiy graveyards are important! 

I think that our cemetery categorisers would lean toward "Bent Burial Ground," as the name that appears in FindAGrave. But there may be an argument for making it "Bent Cemetery" if thats what it's known as locally. And Eagleson would be Eagleson Cemetery, for similar reasons. Put the other names on the category page as alternative names for the cemeteries. 

For the location part of the category name, use the simplest version of the location that is unambiguous. For these cemeteries, that is probably "Upper Granville, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia."

Comments

::takes a deep breath::

OK, I've added them both. I opted to use the "Bent Cemetery" as the category name, because that's what the Genweb volunteers named it. I put "Bent Burial Ground" as the aka.

Thanks for the encouragement