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Tag Archives: Illinois Cemeteries

A Tale of Two Cemeteries

While updating memorials on Find A Grave recently I encountered two burials in the wrong cemeteries. Well not burials exactly, just the headstones. And not the wrong cemeteries exactly, just different cemeteries. The 1st incident came to my attention via email. I received the following message (from a 3rd party, not from the contributor mentioned below):…

September 1, 2016 in Find A Grave, Minneapolis Cemeteries, Tombstone Art and Epitaphs.

Buried Here But Not; How I Played Hide and Seek on Find A Grave

This year I took over 100 headstone photos in a cemetery where they weren’t. Confused? So was I! I drove through the gates of Memory Gardens Cemetery in the wee hours of May 24th. It was misting and I was rushed knowing the sky would soon give in to the threatening rain. A short distance in I could…

December 1, 2015 in Find A Grave, Tombstone Tourist.


1961. When I had no idea how many decades I would devote to family history research.

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