Gravestone Inscriptions – The Final Say
Gravestone inscriptions are the text we find on headstones, monuments, memorials, and tombstones, those epitaphs that honor the deceased. An inscription may be as basic as a name, birth and/or death date. Or…
Cemetery Records – And the Plot Thickens……
There are several records that genealogists search for in regard to a death. These include cemetery records (and grave inscriptions,) church records, sexton’s records, funeral home records, death records, and…
Random Acts of Cemetery Kindness
Yesterday was Random Acts of Kindness day. If you’re a genealogist, you’ve probably encountered Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness. So I thought, why not random acts of cemetery kindness? What…
Cemetery Research can be an Adventure
We genealogists have a lot of investigating and verifying to do when searching for our ancestors. We know about finding birth certificates, marriage certificates and death certificates. We know to…
Cemetery Symbols of Love
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and with it, thoughts of love. Love for a spouse, a parent, a child, a sibling, a friend. As the song says, “Love makes the world…
Lawn Cemeteries
The third type of gravescape in the U.S. is the lawn cemetery. (The first two being graveyards and rural cemeteries, which we discussed last week.) The lawn cemetery, or modern…