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The Family Tree Cemetery Field Guide
How to Find, Record, and Preserve Your Ancestors' Graves
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Pub Date
20 Oct 2017
| Archive Date
21 Nov 2017
Description
Not all research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head into the field. Cemeteries are crucial for any genealogist's search, and this book will show you how to search for and analyze your ancestors' graves. Discover tools for locating tombstones, tips for traipsing through cemeteries, an at-a-glance guide to frequently used gravestone icons, and practical strategies for on-the-ground research. And once you've returned home, learn how to incorporate gravestone information into your research, as well as how to upload grave locations to BillionGraves and record your findings in memorial pages on Find A Grave.
Detailed step-by-step guides to finding ancestors' cemeteries using websites like Find A Grave, plus how to record and preserve death and burial informationTips and strategies for navigating cemeteries and finding individual tombstones in the field, plus an at-a-glance guide to tombstone symbols and iconographyResources and techniques for discovering other death records and incorporating information from cemeteries into genealogical research
Not all research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head into the field. Cemeteries are crucial for any genealogist's search, and this book will show you how to search for and analyze...
Description
Not all research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head into the field. Cemeteries are crucial for any genealogist's search, and this book will show you how to search for and analyze your ancestors' graves. Discover tools for locating tombstones, tips for traipsing through cemeteries, an at-a-glance guide to frequently used gravestone icons, and practical strategies for on-the-ground research. And once you've returned home, learn how to incorporate gravestone information into your research, as well as how to upload grave locations to BillionGraves and record your findings in memorial pages on Find A Grave.
Detailed step-by-step guides to finding ancestors' cemeteries using websites like Find A Grave, plus how to record and preserve death and burial informationTips and strategies for navigating cemeteries and finding individual tombstones in the field, plus an at-a-glance guide to tombstone symbols and iconographyResources and techniques for discovering other death records and incorporating information from cemeteries into genealogical research
A Note From the Publisher
Joy Neighbors has been a professional writer for thirty years, with hundreds of published articles and a cemetery culture blog, A Grave Interest, which averages 30,000 page views per month. In addition to her writing work, Joy also speaks about cemetery culture at state libraries, historical societies, national genealogy conferences and death-care industry sessions around the country.
Joy Neighbors has been a professional writer for thirty years, with hundreds of published articles and a cemetery culture blog, A Grave Interest, which averages 30,000 page views per month. In...
A Note From the Publisher
Joy Neighbors has been a professional writer for thirty years, with hundreds of published articles and a cemetery culture blog, A Grave Interest, which averages 30,000 page views per month. In addition to her writing work, Joy also speaks about cemetery culture at state libraries, historical societies, national genealogy conferences and death-care industry sessions around the country.
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9781440352126 |
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£18.99 (GBP)
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781440352126 |
| PRICE |
£18.99 (GBP)
|
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