1)	Several personal readings, starting casually in 1990 and a complete walk through in 1999/2000 (H, headstone; H-worn, information difficult to read, may be suspect) [Most of the headstones into the 1830s were made of brown slabs of mountain sandstone and are fairly legible; headstones after this time period switched to the more common white stone (sandstone or marble?) and are in many instances worn and illegible)]
2)	A review of the Cambria County Wills
3)	FC - Funeral Card
4)	O - Obituary; Of - obituary of family member; unfortunately, some of the obits I have are undated
5)	FR - family record / genealogy
6)	N - Newspaper article (Ebensburg Mountaineer-Herald, May 1915 and 17 May 1928 Memorial Day newspapers, listed war service and cemetery where buried). Did not always find a headstone to correspond to the newspaper article, and not everyone who has a Civil War unit listed on their headstone shows up in a newspaper article.
7)	DR - Cambria County Death Registers, 1893-1905, LDS microfilm numbers 1293475 (1893-1895) and 1293476 (1895-1905). In many instances, the individuals making the entries in the death registers would only list a number in the age column. In this document, the ???? reference was mostly shown when parents were listed, as a low number would be shown (i.e., 1, 4, 9) and I did not want to list a year if a child only lived a month. However, given the fact that often a number of entries would only indicate a number, but many would be for older people (73, died of old age), it may be assumed ???? is meant to refer to year for age.
8)	LB - Catholic Vital Records of Central Pennsylvania, Volumes 1-5, 1793-1869, by Rev. Albert Ledoux. Noted in Volume 1: Church records bound pastors to keeping sacramental records. Since records of burial did not fall into this category, they were all too frequently ignored by the pastors.
9)	K - Rev. Ferdinand Kittell's "Souvenir of Loretto, Circa 1797-1899", which contains early baptisms, marriages and burials. Included in this book was a register of deaths, covering the period November 17, 1793 to October 10, 1899. Rev. Kittell gathered this information from church records and headstones at St. Michael.

During my last reading over Labor Day weekend, September 2000, I ran into a long-time member of St. Michael's Catholic Church, who informed me in the late 1940s or early 1950s, members of the church volunteered to clean up the cemetery, as the old original section had fallen into disrepair. Headstones were placed in straight lines, and fallen headstones were stood upright and bases reinforced. However, a number of broken headstones were thrown over a nearby ravine. So, in addition to the headstones indicated as unreadable, there are many which simply no longer exist.

Walking back to front, my last reading of the cemetery started about 6 rows before the Schwab mausoleum (end of main section) and up to the front of the original cemetery. These headstones have been marked "main section".

Finally, while I've visited relatives on numerous occasions, I've never lived in Cambria County. So, if someone was listed under (DR) or (O) as being buried at St. Michael cemetery and it's the wrong one, my apologies.