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My buddy, Jeff Bockman, just posted a very good article on cemetery research on his Genealogy According to Jeff website. This article couldn’t have been written 10 years ago… Check it out.
The Rev. Skip Mason was in his office at Morehouse College in Atlanta last year when he received an e-mail containing a shocking discovery and a link to the past. The Georgia Department of Transportation had discovered a cemetery of Continue reading Unmarked Slave Graves in Old Mason Family Cemetery in Georgia
My friend, Jeff Bockman, just sent me a note with a link to the BigCornIsland.com website, complete with Big Corn Island Photos. For those of you who might not know about Big Corn Island, it’s in Nicaragua. Check out the Continue reading Which Way? the Garbage Dump or the Cemetery?
The recession is taking its toll on funerals… I hadn’t thought about it too much, but when my brother passed away on Feb. 21, I found that he had opted for cremation instead of being buried next to his father Continue reading It’s Cheaper to be Fried Than to be Buried – and That’s Tough on the Funeral Home Folks
The following press release was written by the City of Valdosta, Georgia staff: The City of Valdosta has been awarded a Historic Preservation Fund Grant to produce a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-enabled web site to be used by family-members, historians, Continue reading City of Valdosta, Georgia to Produce a GIS-enabled Website for Sunset Hill Cemetery
A new book about the graveyard at the church was launched this week by the Newtownabbey branch of the North of Ireland Family History Society. ‘The Hidden Graveyard’ brings to a conclusion years of meticulous research and information gathering. Praise Continue reading Book Published on the Graveyard of the Carnmoney Parish Church, Newtownabbey, UK
The Wells County Public Library in Bluffton, Indiana has two online resources that genealogists need to be aware of. First, they have an online Bluffton Obituary Index that runs from 1866 through the year 2000. Secondly, the Cemetery Index for Continue reading Wells County, Indiana Online Obituary & Cemetery Indexes
I posted an item about the WWI soldiers buried at Fromelles, France just over a month ago. The soldiers are back in the news. The following is an excerpt from an article in the March 24, 2009 edition of the Continue reading Identifying the WWI Soldiers at Fromelles, France, isn’t an Easy Task
UPDATE: As of May 26, 2009, the Nationwide Grave Locator website is down – thus the following link will not work. I can find no further information on the subject – and figure that this is most likely temporary – Continue reading Using the Department of Veterans Affairs “Nationwide Gravesite Locator”
Nomis Publications – the folks who brought us the “Yellow Book” of Funeral Homes, has just announced a completely updated and easy-to-use website. I’ve been a Nomis fan since I got my first “Yellow Book” from them (I believe that Continue reading Fresh Resource Now Posted for Those Dealing in the Dead – Oh, Lay Me Down in Forest Lawn…
My good friend, Kory Meyerink, spoke at the Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy held at Brigham Young University this last weekend. One of his lectures dealt with locating cemetery information online. Kory shared information about websites of special Continue reading Online Cemetery Information
Alerted by blogs already posted this morning (Eastman, Robbins-Midkiff), I looked at the controversy over the photographing of headstones by genealogist David Shannon at the Old Union Christian Church Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. Not only did Mr. Shannon takes pictures Continue reading Headstones Are Public Information – Otherwise There Would be a REALLY HIGH FENCE
I can’t say that I’ve heard a lot of good excuses for grave robbing over the years. I suppose that the main reason is that I just never ran with that crowd. But some guy in Ghana tried to justify Continue reading A Grave Robber’s Defense
MORGANTOWN (AP) — A West Virginia coal company has received permission to relocate the remains of 22 people buried in a family cemetery in Monongalia County that dates to the 1800s. Circuit Court Judge Susan Tucker recently approved Patriot Mining Continue reading Judge Okays the Move of West Virginia Cemetery
For the last two years, Florence, Alabama residents have been working to gain historic recognition for the Florence City Cemetery. Now, members of the Florence Heritage Preservation Inc. have been informed that the cemetery has been added to the Alabama Continue reading Alabama’s Florence City Cemetery Makes the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register