The following teaser is from the May 13, 2013 edition of thestate.com: A preliminary survey underwritten by Richland County [South Carolina] has identified more than 450 cemeteries, most of them long-abandoned plots where family members were laid to rest together. Next, Mike Trinkley of the nonprofit Chicora Foundation will embark on field work to refine [...]
The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added more than 9.4 million index records and images this week from BillionGraves, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Italy, Peru, Sweden, the United States, and Venezuela. Notable collection updates include the 3,368,091 index records and images from the U.S., Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952, collection, the 2,187,206 [...]
Sometimes titles don’t completely clarify the contents of a book. Not so, with Tennessee Records: Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts, where the title says exactly what the book is about. Within these pages you will find thousands of tombstone inscriptions. In fact, 364 pages of inscriptions for thousands of names from early Tennessee cemeteries. In addition [...]
FamilySearch has added 2.1 million indexed records and images this week from BillionGraves, Canada, Czech Republic, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 815,732 index record and images from the BillionGraves Index collection, and the 753,021 images from the U.S., Washington, County Records, 1856- 2009, collection. See the [...]
Now this is a strange one… The following teaser is from an article by Amanda Norris, posted in the April 5, 2013 Virgin Islands Daily News. Click on the link at the end of the excerpt, and dead the full article – then just shake your head in wonder… ST. THOMAS [U.S. Virgin Islands] - [...]
Read the details in this article from The GreenPoint Gazette: USS Monitor Crew Honored at Arlington Cemetery by Janice Weinmann It was New Year’s Eve 1862 when the USS Monitor sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. That night the Monitor and sixteen of her crewmen became a part of the “Graveyard of [...]
The following teaser is from an article posted at the March 10, 2013 nbcchicago.com website. A suburban Chicago coroner wants to find a final resting place for cremated remains that have gone unclaimed. Kane County Coroner Rob Russell says the remains of 47 people have been sitting in an office storage unit. Some are remains [...]
The following teaser is from an AP article printed in the March 10, 2013 edition of Redding.com: ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad’s turret when it was raised a decade ago were buried Friday [...]
The following excerpt is from an AP article about the gravesite of the little-known doctor who cared for President Lincoln’s feet. LONDON — He may just be a footnote to history, but Dr. Isachar Zacharie is having a posthumous mini-moment, thanks to the Hollywood-sparked surge of interest in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Zacharie was [...]
The following excerpt is from the February 16, 2013 edition of the Marietta Times. Marietta, Ohio: A group of Marietta College students, faculty and other interested community members outlined plans for the next several months of project development in the new endeavor titled: Marietta Cemeteries Coming Alive. Creating accurate burial map information about Marietta’s most [...]
The Dalla Genealogical Soceity has added records for Oakland Cemetery (Section 19) and Perry Cemetery (582 records) to their cemetery database. According to their website, the database is approaching 27,000 records from 27 different Dallas area cemeteries. In addition to the database, the society has a page for each cemetery, providing information about its location, [...]
The following excerpt is from an article in the February 12, 2013 edition of the Washington Post. For 140 years the two Yankee sailors lay entombed in the turret of the USS Monitor, doomed shipmates aboard the sunken Civil War vessel 40 fathoms down and 16 miles off Cape Hatteras. Their remains were recovered when [...]
The following excerpt is from an interesting article about a Serbian man who has settled in an abandoned tomb. There’s no place like home, and for Bratislav Stojanovic, his home is in a tomb. The homeless Serbian man has been living in an old, seemingly abandoned, cemetery in the southern city of Nis for about [...]
The following news release is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch added 8.5 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Included are 2,897,940 additional index records and images for the new New York State Census of 1855 collection, the 1,070,807 index records and images from the Texas Birth Certificates collection from 1903-1935, and [...]
The following teaser is from the February 7, 2013 edition of the Washington Post. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that a review of every grave in the national cemetery system found 15 sets of remains buried in the wrong spots and nearly 800 other problems. Most of those other issues were unmarked or [...]
