Find A Grave contributors come in many shapes and sizes. I know this because I read the bios that catch my eye when I process edits.
I enjoy reading the reasons people contribute memorials to Find A Grave, the stories about what brought them there and about their backgrounds in genealogy or graving.
Today I read a term I either hadn’t heard before (or had forgotten about) and I was intrigued.
What, I wondered, was a grave dowser?
Enter the Google machine who brought me to this:
How interesting is that?!?
And now that I know what the term means, I chuckle thinking only those of us who are genealogists or graveyard rabbits, or a Find A Grave contributors would say they go grave dowsing for fun!
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My gosh, I knew about dowsing for water, but I have never heard of dowsing for GRAVES. I’d like to find out more about this. Maybe in a mystery novel haha!
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So interesting, right? I couldn’t believe all the places Google took me when I searched for the term. Articles, blog posts, even YouTube videos! There are numerous associations devoted to the practice which some say dates back to Moses searching for water in the desert. It was fun to learn about the practice.
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They used to have dowsing for water in old TV westerns :). That’s where I get most of my knowledge hahaha.
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That’s funny! More educational than my TV history – Bewitched!
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