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CHICAGO, March 13 /PRNewswire/ – Yesterday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, Christopher Knight Capone, the putative grandson of the most notorious crime figure in American history Al Capone, filed a complaint requesting the court to enter Continue reading Putative Grandson Christopher Knight Capone is Looking for Answers
Collaboration between the City of Nacogdoches [Texas] and SFA [Stephen F. Austin University] has resulted in a $250,000 “Preserve America” grant from the National Park Service for cemetery interpretation. The grant was awarded to the City of Nacogdoches based on Continue reading Grant for Cemetery-Interpretation Program for the Oak Grove & Zion Hill Cemeteries in Nacogdoches
A new statewide headstone project has begun in an endeavor to post photos of South Dakota headstones. The site has been up for about three weeks, and currently has 2700 headstone photos posted. Granted – this isn’t findagrave.com, but in Continue reading The New SouthDakotaGravestones.org
A while back I downloaded the death certificate from the Cook County Genealogy Online website for a cousin whose name was Albert Schaaf. He died April 26, 1935 in Chicago. According to the Death Certificate he was buried in the Continue reading He’s Buried in Waldheim Cemetery… or is he?
It is planned that the NSDAR will honor two Revolutionary War soldiers by marking gravesites at the Vaughn Hill Cemetery in Wood River Twp, Madison Co., Illinois. The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will place commemorative markers in Continue reading NSDAR to Place Markers on Revolutionary War Veteran Graves in the Vaughan Hill Cemetery, Wood River Twp, Madison Co., Illinois
Urn and Willow Publishing has announced the release of a new DVD publication: “Photographs of Lakeville, Massachusetts Gravestones 1711-2003,” by Jean A. Douillette. The pictorial companion to the recent book “Lakeville, Massachusetts Gravestone Inscriptions 1711-2003,” contains excess of 6,000 photographs. Continue reading Photographs of Lakeville, Massachusetts Gravestones 1711-2003
An old cemetery next to the St. Louis Baptist Church in Tyler, Texas will most likely be declared abandoned and taken over by the city. Gravestones for Walter H. Branham and M.H. Terry, who died in 1953 and 1957, have Continue reading The Branham Family Cemetery in Tyler, Texas to be Rescued
January 20 – Iranian authorities have destroyed parts of Tehran’s Khavaran cemetery which contain mass unmarked graves of political prisoners executed in 1988. The son of one of the victims tells Radio Farda: “They cannot annihilate all proof of a Continue reading Bulldozer Destroys Graves of Political Prisoners in Tehran’s Khavaran Cemetery
Thousands of cemeteries nationwide have paupers graves where no headstone is found. And with the older cemeteries, there are often no records. It’s possible to at least partially reconstruct who might be buried in any particular cemetery using death certificates, Continue reading Unmarked Graves in the Wake County Home Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina
It seems that the City of Lake Alfred, Florida may have sold a grave plot to two different parties. Someone got buried in the grave – and the other party is suing, claiming the grave is theirs. The oddest thing Continue reading Suit Filed Over “Wrongful Burial”
Bayside Cemetery, Ozone Park Queens, which contains the mortal remains of nearly 35,000 deceased Jews may be setting new heights for a cemetery in distress. The place is a mess. John Tucker, of Sudbury, has grandparents buried there, and was Continue reading New York’s Bayside Cemetery Going “Back to Nature”
There’s been a battle going on for some time now over making the names of those buried in the Hastings Regional Center Cemetery (Adams County, Nebraska) available to the public. Nine hundred fifty-seven people are buried in the hospital cemetery. Continue reading HIPPA Laws Frustrate Cemetery Research
Joe Beine, owner of the “Genealogy Roots Blog,” has begun a cemetery blog that’s pretty interesting. All active genealogists have an interest in the meaning of cemetery symbols and other graveyard oddities. Take a look at the Cemeteries and Cemetery Continue reading The New Cemeteries and Cemetery Symbols Blog
For the first time, anyone can perform Jewish Massachusetts genealogical searches online. So, if someone is looking for late Uncle Ben on their mother’s side of the family, chances are they can locate his burial records at any one of Continue reading 55,000 Massachusetts Burial Records Now Online
An amazing number of cemetery and funeral home records have never been computerized in any way. How often have you pored over a cemetery map that was nearly 100 years old, faded, and tattered at the edges? And that was Continue reading Canton, Illinois’ Greenwood Cemetery Gets New Maps and History