Graveyard Stew

Abandoned Cemeteries & Lost Graves
Abandoned Cemeteries from around the United States by Waymarking
19th Century Immigrant Grave Found In Pa.?19th Century Immigrant Grave Found In Pa.?
Forgotten New York Cemeteries
Forgotten Grave Discovered from Deadwood Magazine
Frontier baby’s grave may lie in the tollway path
Soldier buried on Route 5
Legend of lost graves , Fallon, NV
Mystery of the Lost Cemetery
Lost stories: Historic cemetery showing ravages of time
Coffins Under the Street
North Carolina, Historic cemetery discovered
Vermont, cemetery uncovered
Boston, Granery Burial grounds
L.A. Chinese Bigotry, graves unearthed
Tombstone Mystery, Ohio
Unnamed Union Soldier found
Family cemeteries dying
Save old family cemeteries
From Cincinnati, Ohio but could have been written about any of our cemeteries, READ THIS ONE!
Gladiators' graveyard discovered
Finding old unmarked graves
Old graves to be moved
Old graves in a old town
Wake County development turning up old graves - WRAL.com
Archaeologists join hunt for long-lost burials in historic cemetery
Excavation of lost Newburgh cemetery
Lost “Ruby City” Cemetery Revisited
Johnson Co. KS Digital Cemetery Project
Wisconsin’s Lost Cemeteries
Finding Lost Graves
Lost Cemetery - Hamburg Pike - Clark County Indiana
Lost Cemeteries of Hudson County
Lost Cemetery Uncovered At Ky. Horse Park
Mystery of the Lost Cemetery
Abandoned Cemeteries, La Porte Indiana
Connecticut, Saving Abandoned Cemeteries and Grave Markers
College Station, TX Abandond Cemeteries Get TLC
The Forgotten Souls of Route 66




African American
http://afrigeneas.com/forum-cemeteries/
http://seacoastnh.com/arts/please101203.html
http://africanamericancemeteries.com/
http://www.sciway.net/hist/chicora/gravematters-html
http://www.africanburialground.gov/ABG_Main.htm
Love Cemetery, my favorite book
http://readingarchives.blogspot.com/2009/02/power-records-and-love-cemetery.html
More on the Love Cemetery
http://www.imagesofdivinity.org/
http://africanamericancemeteries.com/news/
http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/cemsymbolism.htm
Preservation of African American Cemeteries in Izard and Sharp County, Arkansas
http://www.clt.astate.edu/jmorrow/current_research.htm
Bringing Cemeteries to Life
http://www.lostmag.com/issue15/cemeteries.php
Tiny cemetery has survived in York County South Carolina

Caretakers Homes
A Life Of Peace -- Courant.com
The Genealogy Center - Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
Residing, in peace, at the cemetery - Design - NJ.com
Cemetery firm fights to tear down caretaker's house
Caretaker's House - Hollywood Cemetery on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Clinton Grove Cemetery Caretaker's House
Harrisburg Cemetery Caretaker's House (1845) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Queens Crap: Wake for cemetery caretaker's house
http://oconeehillcemetery.com/sextonshouse.html
Pennsylvania State Parks - White Clay Creek Sextons House - PA DCNR
Sexton's House, Vieilleville, France (no longer in use) on Flickr - Photo Sharing
Crews work on Sexton House



Cemetery Postcards
http://www.alsirat.com/taphophile/postcard.html
http://www.savinggraves.org/projects/postcards
http://www.thecemeteryclub.com/postcards.html
http://www.vintagepostcards.org/-c-234.html
http://www.vintageviews.org/vv-ny/_Topics/Cemeteries.html (New York Cemeteries)

Cemetery Walks/Strolls/Reenactments
http://www.northfieldhistory.org/node/409
http://www.huntsvillepilgrimage.org/cemetery_stroll.html
http://www.westonhistoricalmuseum.org/events.html
http://www.vandaliaillinois.com/cemwalk.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzcBM8TYJxs
http://www.coronagensoc.org/sunnyslope.html (scripts from Sunnyslope Cemetery Stroll)


City of the Silent
http://www.alsirat.com/silence/index.html

Dos and Don'ts From Connecticut Gravestone Network
http://pages.cthome.net/hirsch/dodont.htm

Family Cemeteries
http://inman.surnameweb.org/maps/index.htm
http://www.fmoran.com/cement.html
Save old family cemeteries
http://www.biddly.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=103

Favorite pages of Photos
http://www.northrup.org/photos/cemetery/
http://www.johnthomasgrant.com/ (nobody can beat his artistry!)
http://genealogyphotography.com/
http://www.graveaddiction.com/ (photos from cemeteries, haunted places, and historical sites)
http://hotchkinfamilyhistory.com/ui28.htm (private collection of cemeteries of family history)
http://www.lkessler.com/cemphoto.shtml (Photo project)
http://www.afterlifeseasons.com/ (This is really great, just a few pictures, but they are alive!)

Grave Houses
The Grave House by Frederick Smoot
A GraveHouse from Hill Country by Terry Thornton
GraveHouse Legends ,the book, by Jeremy Broussard
Beverly and the Grave House

Graveyard Rabbit, Everyone’s favorite
http://www.thegraveyardrabbit.com/

Indian and Sacred Burial Ground
http://www.ibsgwatch.imagedjinn.com/

Lesson plans for cemetery teaching
http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/classroom/curriculum_8th/lesson1/index.html
http://www.eastconn.org/tah/CemetaryLesson.pdf
http://www.kcpt.org/stories/pdf/Art_Arch.pdf
http://alliance.la.asu.edu/internetclass/ExampleLesson1.html
http://people.uncw.edu/kubaskod/Professional/2008-2009/Intersdicsiplinary.ppt#14
Stories Under the Stone A DVD and information
http://www.kcpt.org/stories/


List of other grave/cemetery sites
http://www.a-grave-affair.com/gravelink.htm http://www.in.gov/dnr/files/cem_websites.pdf http://www3.sympatico.ca/bkinnon/cemeteries.htm http://www.idreamof.com/cemetery/ca.html http://www.gravematter.com/ http://teafor2.com/
http://inman.surnameweb.org/maps/index.htm
http://genealogyregister.com/cemetery.html
http://www.cyndislist.com/cemetery.htm
Web Resources by Midge Frazel , A Graveyard Rabbit
http://midgefrazel.net/cemetery.html
http://www.capecodgravestones.com/ Pictures and gravestones around Cape Cod http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Cemetery_Research_Guide
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~langolier/cemeteries.html
http://www.thegravewalkers.com/gravehousesdirectory.htm
http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/links-cemetery.htm

Morticians in US (use to call and ask about the local cemeteries)
http://www.funeral-dir.com/default.htm

Preservation of Cemeteries
http://www.savinggraves.org/
http://www.historiccemeteriespreservation.com/
http://www.cemeterydepot.com/Preservation-of-Cemeteries-information.php
http://www.gravestoneconservation.com/
http://www.thc.state.tx.us/publications/guidelines/Preservecem.pdf
Indiana Pioneer Restoration Project. Great ideas.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inpcrp/
A great story of a neglated cemetery and how it was saved.
http://www.perrytwp.org/files/history/DavisCemetery.pdf
Satellite of cemetery maps , a project of Graveyard Rabbits, in part
http://www.namesinstone.com/

Search of grave sites by name or cemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/
http://www.findagrave.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm
http://www.interment.net/
http://www.cemeteryjunction.com/
http://www.deathindexes.com/
http://potifos.com/cemeteries.html
http://geneasearch.com/cemeteries.htm
http://politicalgraveyard.com/
Cemetery Webring
http://www.thegenealogytree.com/webrings/about-the-cemetery-transcriptions-webring.htm
http://www.southerngraves.net/
http://www.headstonesgenealogy.com/index.php

Symbols from the cemetery
http://cemeteries.wordpress.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/6587/Abb.html (abbreviations)
http://genealogy.about.com/od/cemetery_records/ig/tombstone_symbols/index.01.htm
http://www.prairieghosts.com/grave_symbols.html
http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/cemsymbolism.htm

Southern California Cemeteries
http://www.forestlawn.com/ Forest Lawn
http://www.hollywoodforever.com/ Hollywood Forver
http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/LACC-Title.htm Los Angeles City Cemetery
http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/losangeles.asp Los Angeles National Cemetery
http://savannahpioneercem.blogspot.com/ El Monte Cemetery
http://scgsgenealogy.com/avalon.htm (Avalon Cemetery)
http://www.bakerfamily.org/legs/lecemhome.htm (Lake Elsinore)



Transcription Projects
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/cemetery/
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cemetery/
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/
Software for Cemetery Transcription
http://www.ovs-genealogy.com/cemetery/usa/usa-cemetery-records.shtml

Variety of cemetery stuff to die for
http://www.nejman.com/todiefor/cemetery.htm
http://www.rootstelevision.com/players/player_dearlydeparted3.php?
a wooden grave marker/headboard (Wooden grave markers, very informative)
http://www.soapysmith.net/id22.html (I don’t know what to make of this, but it is interesting)
http://www.hermes.net.au/relic/cems.htm (cemetery stuff, variety)
http://www.deathreference.com/index.html (death and dying encyclopedia)
http://www.southerngraves.net/
http://www.pagstones.com/ (Stones of Faith, PA Germans)
Slots and Tabs Tombs
Prairie dogs plague Fairview Cemetery (New Mexico)


Veterans Cemeteries
http://www.cem.va.gov/cem/scg/lsvc.asp
Antietiam National Cemetery
http://www.whilbr.org/antietamNationalCemetery/index.aspx
History of military headstones
http://www.militaryhistoryinstone.org/history.php
Civil War
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/links/hist.htm http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/cemeteries/index.html
http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/index.php
http://vermontcivilwar.org/cem/
http://www.civilwarvetgraves.bravehost.com/index.html
Civil War vet gets civil resting place Orange County, CA