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Whoops- sorry about that leszekp- thank YOU for the conversion!

Wow, we are almost neighbors!  I live in Alton.

Here is one you don't appear to have:  N39 00.850 W90 32.729 Its a neat little historic cemetery in Marquette Park.  You have to bushwack back to it.

When you are done, I would like your data so I can update the cemeteries in my My POIs map. 

I still think the process I described to you is your best way.  The custom map can be very hard to read on your GPS.  If you do it the way I describe, you can open the gpx file in GoogleEarth and see where the cemetery is on the map while it is displayed in GE

Have you ever seen the historic cabin and barn at N39 00.680 W90 31.504? It is really getting in terrible condition and it would be great if it could be protected.

Here is something else you might be interested in:  N38 59.285 W90 29.624 Its an old stone structure that used to hold water from  a spring - the spring has moved about 20 feet from it.  No one in the park knows anything about it.  I suspect who ever built the old cabin at N38 59.254 W90 29.735 built it

That would have to be the Thompson or Crull?  Any names on stones you remember?  We have an unlocated Thompson cemetery somewhere in Sect 33, and a Crull in Sect 28.  Those coords are pretty close to the border between them.   Either way, we can go there tomorrow and check one off our unlocated list.  That map you converted for me (thanks a lot BTW) was about 20% complete.  I should get it finished today.  I suspect the waypoint list will be the functional way to go. 

I was born and raised in Alton- ASH, '74.

One more thought- we absolutely can use a waypoint file to let folks go find the cemeteries;  we will have/provide that regardless of how the overlay works out.

Ok, third times a charm (note to self- do NOT navigate off the reply page, it is NOT cached).
Let me ramble a bit to clear up some things:
We have a paper county road map with cemetery locations on it. And we have numerous other lesser quality maps and descriptions.  We are transferring all of them to the county road map, and verifying the locations and documenting GPS coords, and getting photos of all the cemeteries.

The Historical Society wants a consolidated 40 inch map on the wall, and I want a pdf on the website, with links to coords and photos.  The DOT has pdfs of scanned paper maps available.

To locate the cemeteries, I use Google Earth, navigate as close as I can by eye/landmarks (not easy without section lines), and get cursor coords.  This is painful, and several sources of section lines did not work out well (without buying something). 
I then "discovered" the image overlay feature of GE.  Did a quick export of the pdf to gif, pulled it in to GE, scaled it to line up roads, and I now have a VERY convenient tool for locating map features on GE and getting coords.  (The accuracy of the old paper maps is amazing when compared to sat images)

We do not enter a cemetery on the map unless we've had "boots on the ground" to confirm it and verify readings with the handheld.  When we go out to do this, it's convenient to have the paper map along to refer too and record coordinates on.  If I could get the image overlay into the Dakota, I would not have to drag around the paper map.  The Hist. Soc. has also expressed how nice they think it would be to provide future genealogists with a downloadable version of our cemetery map.

I tried to attach the prelim overlay kmz file- too big.  So I uploaded it to the Google Earth community's experimental/temporary forum, if you want to have a look.  Link is below.

I really appreciate the responses/feedback- I can see right now this GPS stuff is going to occupy a lot of my time this winter.  A new outlet/focus for my love of maps.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1449245#Post1449245

Thanks for the input guys.  Not the answer I was hoping for, but not unexpected. 

Greetings,
  We have taken on a "lost cemeteries" project at our local county historical society.  There were many sets of hand marked county highway maps, hand drawn maps, and text descriptions of the location of our 100 or so lost cemeteries.  I obtained a pdf file of the official  DOT county highway map, and have been editing it in Photoshop, to consolidate and record the cemetery locations.  we are slowly confirming the gps coordinates of all these cemeteries with a handheld gps (Iphone, and more recently a Dakota 20)I recently took a copy of the consolidated pdf, transformed it to a gif, and imported  it as an overlay in Google Earth.  This has proven invaluable in precisely locating the markers in the pdf version of the map.  But what I'd REALLY liek to end up with is a copy of the County road map (pdf file + edits) that I can download into the Dakota, and use it to navigate to the cemeteries, and drop waypoints or POIs onto it as we find more/make corrections.

So, is it possible to somehow get the edited pdf into a form that I can download into the Dakota and use as a map?   Sorry this is so long winded, but I figured the background might help.