Have you had to figure out cemetery and headstone research for genealogy on your own? It can be a bit overwhelming! In this article, we'll help you find new depths to your cemetery research. Most genealogists seek to find each ancestor's birth, marriage, and death information. Headstone and cemetery records can provide our ancestors' death date and final resting place. However, if we dig deeper into cemetery records, we may find so much more information! Level 1: Online Sites like … [Read more...]
A Horrific Headstone on Halloween
As the Halloween tradition highlights the eerie scares of death, this is a story of a broken headstone, and how a family rallied together to bring dignity to a fascinating life. Halloween in the U.S. means stories of ghouls and ghosts and terrifying nightly jaunts through haunted cemeteries filled with shadowy grave markers rising above black grass. It evokes a picture of the cold night air filled with howling wolves and screeching bats flying under an icy blue moon. Speaking of scary … [Read more...]