Submitted by James Jeffrey (Denver Public Library’s Collection Specialist in Genealogy):
Don and Doris Elliott have continued their labor of love by identifying and documenting those persons buried in a Colorado cemetery with 1100 or fewer interments. What began as an update to 1985’s Colorado Cemetery Directory first published by the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies […]
Find your ancestors in the cemetery using a dog? They say it can be done. Seems there are 10 dogs in the entire country that can do this kind of thing. Interesting…
When Eagle Scout candidate Jeff Carlson was searching for a possible community service project, his mother suggested he look in a graveyard. Carlson agreed.
More […]
Cemetery walking tours are a great idea. I’ve purchased several over the years - usually associated with National Parks - like Gettysburg and Andersonville.
If readers know of others, email me with the cemetery and its location. I’d like to post a list, even if it is short…
MOULTRIE [Georgia] One good idea has rolled into another […]
OXFORD [Indiana] - Born in England, Bartlet Smith died of syphilis at the Benton County Poor Farm on Feb. 2, 1896. He was 52.
He had lived on the farm, four miles northeast of Oxford, for eight months. He lies in a pauper’s grave in the Poor Farm Cemetery.
It’s a sad, wind-blown little place … an […]
It seems that New York Archives Week begins tomorrow (Sunday). Folks are remembering the preservation of the past - and Tompkins County is no exception. Following is an excerpt from an article in the October 7 edition of the Ithaca Journal that speaks of many of the the Tompkins County resources.
Tompkins County is rich in […]
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 Symbols blog. Good stuff…
I just blogged an item about the obituary index posted by the Hoyt Library in Saginaw a couple days ago. Now I see that the city is getting behind a project to computerize records of the area cemeteries.
A growing number of folks looking for their dead relatives are prompting a move by Saginaw and the […]
According to an AP story, hundreds of caskets and human remains have been found in Louisiana following Hurricane Rita, which took place one year ago. They are still finding them today. One was 34 miles from it’s original location. Many are still missing. Following is a short excerpt from the AP article:
CAMERON, Louisiana (AP) — […]
WASHINGTON - A piece of a size 5½ military boot found at a construction site in France helped Pentagon scientists identify the remains of a missing Cincinnati soldier killed during World War I.
Army Pvt. Francis Lupo’s remains will be buried with full military honors Tuesday in Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington, nearly nine decades […]
Batesville’s City Clerk is running for re-election - and has made some interesting comments concerning genealogy research. Following is an excerpt.
Batesville [Independence County, Arkansas] City Clerk/Treasurer Denise May Johnston has formally announced her bid for re-election.
Johnston has served Batesville as city clerk/treasurer for the past 16 years and says she would love the opportunity to […]
Many of the historic cemeteries in Phenix City [Russell County, Alabama] are older than the town.
Inside their grounds lie the remains of members of prominent Valley families that have played large roles in the settling and development of the Bi-Cities, names like Kinnett, Godwin and King.
But these historic resting places are beginning to fall into […]
A few months back, I blogged about how 15 year old Brad Jencks had taken on the restoration, recording, and photographing of the historic Bingham City Cemetery here in Utah. Brad was at the FGS Conference in Boston to receive a Youth Award from FGS. He and his mother flew back to SLC seated next […]
When you buy property, it’s always a good idea to take a good look at what you’ve got. The backyard can turn up unexpected surprises.
BOULDER CREEK [Santa Cruz County, California] DeeDee and Dan Armenta thought the odd-looking brick-and-stone structure in the backyard of the house they bought a year ago was a barbecue pit, […]
A few days ago, I blogged about how the exhumation of a civil war soldier in North Aurora, Illinois had led to the fact that there was no doubt that a cemetery was in that location. Well - they were up to 19 graves.
Now maybe I’m just a bit backward, but when the number of […]
Campbell County, Wyoming is probably best known for the city of Gillette, a city of about 25,000 on Interstate 90 between Sheridan, Wyoming and Spearfish, South Dakota. The county has some excellent online resources - as follows:
The Campbell County Public Library website has several online databases.
Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Obituary databases have been posted […]
NORTH AURORA [Illinois] Archaeologists continue to sift through a plot of land south of Butterfield Road, where the potential gravesite of a Civil War veteran has now turned into what might possibly be a neighborhood cemetery.
Officials with the Public Service Archaeological Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois have discovered the remains of […]
The following excerpts are not for the faint-hearted. It seems that untimely deaths do have a fascination to them, however.
If the cemeteries of Henniker [Merrimack County, New Hampshire] could talk, they would reveal 349 untimely deaths over the past two and a half centuries, the vast majority of which were of men. They would recall […]
CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. - A construction crew working near a Missouri Bootheel church accidentally unearthed a body from a long-forgotten cemetery.
It happened Tuesday when a backhoe operator struck what he thought was a cast-iron sewer pipe near the First United Methodist Church. It instead proved to be a burial vault. The vault was damaged by the […]
The San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society maintains a research library located at 911 Melissa in San Antonio. The library has many resources for genealogists interested in the area. Not only do they have a library, they are also actively conducting classes for genealogists, covering a wide variety of topics.
Their fall seminar, November 4, will […]
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. Second, the Cemetery Index for Wells County, also accesssible online.
The Indiana room houses a number of excellent genealogy references, […]