Good grief. And what were the parents up too?
Five teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of vandalizing more than 70 graves — and causing an estimated $100,000 in damages — at Azle’s Ash Creek Cemetery, police said.
“It was damage for damage’s sake,” Azle police Chief Steve Myers said of the crime spree Wednesday night. “They […]
WASHINGTON - Gallia County, Ohio, found a way to make the vice president of the United States part of a local club - by discovering his great-grandparents’ grave.
Vice President Dick Cheney was allowed to skip the usual formalities when he accepted honorary membership last month in the Ohio Genealogical Society’s Gallia County chapter in southeast […]
American Indian Burial graounds are often hard to determine, but when they are, they must be respected. Those folks are somebody’s ancestors too. Let them rest in peace.
Historian SuAnn Reddick suspects that a long-forgotten Native American burial ground rests within Boise Cascade’s downtown Salem riverfront property.
Evidence points to a 159-year-old mass graveyard at the Boise […]
The dead (with the help of the living) win again. I think we’re on a roll here…
I liked the following quote from the ruling. A cemetery is as public a place as a courthouse, or a market, the ruling said. It may not be frequented as much, but visits to it are necessary and as […]
According to some, when chasing dead relatives in cemeteries, be very kind to the toads…
Ive been working on our familys genealogy for several years, and when I get a chance, I like to check out old cemeteries where I know ancestors are buried.
A few years ago, there was a gathering of Schenck descendants in Montgomery […]
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) — Experts at the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C., have confirmed that a World War II submarine wreck found in the Gulf of Thailand last year is USS Lagarto (SS 371).
Underwater archeologists at the center completed their examination of evidence obtained in June by Navy divers from USS Salvor (ARS […]
Using the technology available in today’s world, headstones can be far more personal than in the past. Following is an excerpt from an interesting article, but you must look at the page in the July 8, 2006 edition of The Record to get a full sense of the beauty attached to some of these modern […]
When I saw that extensive cemetery vandalism had taken place in Salem, Oregon, over the holiday, I did a double take. My grandmother is buried in the City View Cemetery in Salem. City View has experienced extensive vandalism in the past. However, this time it wasn’t City View, but the Lee Mission Cemetery - […]
It’s sad that with time, we seem to forget our heros. Their tombstones are vandalized, and crumble to dust - their graves forgotten.
PETERSBURG, Tenn. Joseph Greer’s grave doesn’t look like that of a hero.
The pile of broken monuments that mark his final resting place in this small Lincoln County town offer no hint of […]
A few days ago I blogged about the seeming lack of “Rest in Peace” in Logan County, Kentucky. Well, it seems that the good folks there got the message that the dead should be left alone after all. Congratulations to both the dead - and to the court.
Logan County Magistrate Harold Prince opened Tuesday’s Fiscal […]
TASMANIA‘S early settlers could never have imagined an age filled with computers, digital cameras and the internet.
But the technology has ensured our forebears are never forgotten, with the Tasmanian Family History Society’s Hobart branch creating a new series of CD-ROMs preserving Tasmania’s graveyard history.
The society yesterday released Cemeteries of Southern Tasmania — a collection of […]
The Veteran’s Administration Nationwide Gravesite Locator online database is a wonderful resource for genealogists. With a few keystrokes you can locate graves for all kinds of family members - and now get a cemetery map to go with it. My cousin, Elmore Meitzler, and his wife, Doris, are buried in the Fort Custer National […]
I blogged abut the launching of the New Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts website in early May. The following news release about the site was released today.
NEWTON, Mass., June 20 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, anyone can perform genealogical searches online! So, if someone is looking for late Uncle Ben on their mother’s side […]
Are you related to the “unknown cowboy?” Seems the cowboy died about 1890 and no one knew his name. His headstone has been stolen, reviving the story. It’s a good history mystery…
NOCONA — On a lonely hilltop south of the Red River in Montague County, a dry wind flutters two small flags on their wire […]
American cemeteries are launching “resident” databases on nearly a daily basis. I’ve not heard about family members being upset about this trend, but then again, I don’t hear everything… The following is an excerpt from a story out of new zealand in which the family is proclaiming their uphappiness with the publicness of it all. […]
Some folks aren’t very sensitive to the right to be left alone once dead. This includes the principals of Logan County Seed Processing and a majority of the Logan County, Kentucky, Fiscal Court. My question is this… Is Logan County out of space to grow seed? The following excerpt is from an article about an […]