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• All About Cemeteries and Funeral Homes

• Ancestry.com - Learning Center - Learn More

  Thousands of FREE, searchable how-to articles from Ancestry.com publications such as Ancestry Magazine, the Ancestry Weekly Discovery and the Ancestry Monthly Update.

  • Cemetery Iconography

    Article by George G. Morgan.

  • Technology for Lost and Found Cemeteries

    Article by Candace L. Doriott in Genealogical Computing about risks to pioneer cemeteries, preservation efforts, and noninvasive geophysical methods used to rediscover this lost heritage.

  • Tombstones Are Secondary Sources

    Article by George G. Morgan.

  • Using Burial Permits as Resources

    Article by George G. Morgan.

    • Examples of Burial and Transit Permits

• Archaeology, Genealogy, and GIS Meet at Columbia Cemetery

  Online article on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping of the Columbia Cemetery in Boulder, Colorado.

• Beyond the Index--Michael John Neill's Articles in the Ancestry Daily News

  • No Stone to Leave Unturned

    Ideas for when your ancestor has no tombstone.

  • Rural Cemetery Excursions

    This how-to article discusses visiting rural cemeteries along with some suggestions for preparing for your trip.

  • Tombstone Rubbings

  • We Rub Stones

• Cemetery Research and Gravestone Rubbings...a How To, Site

  How to research cemeteries, care for tombstones and photograph the stones.

• Cemetery Studies

  Pictures of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati Ohio and lesson plans for students.

• CGN Cemetery Do's & Don'ts

  Includes: Cleaning Basics, Graveyard Maintenance, Gravestone Rubbings, Reading Inscriptions, Should You Seal or Waterproof Gravestones?

• Cleaning Gravestones

  How to article from the Connecticut Gravestone Network.

• Cleaning Gravestones: Use the Gentlest Means Possible

  By Camille Bowman, Architectural Conservator.

• Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy - Welsh Words and Phrases on Gravestones

• Finding a Burial Place in Cemeteries or Cemetery Records

• Finding a Death Date in Cemeteries or Cemetery Records

• Finding the Final Resting Place

  Article by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.

• Gravestone Rubbing for Beginners

  By Jessie Lie Farber.

• Headstone Abbreviations

• How to do Tombstone Rubbings

• How to Read A Graveyard

  From DoHistory.

• Locating Cemeteries and Cemetery Records

• Monumental Inscriptions as Genealogy Resources

  • Recording Monumental Inscriptions

• OVS-Genealogy - Taking Photos of Cemeteries, Monuments, and Tombstones

  Tips and suggestions, and examples for taking photos of tombstones.