Links To Other Related Sites

This page last updated 9/24/2006


Bookmarks to Major Categories

       Gravestones and Gravestone Studies

 Arlington National Cemetery - General information and a map.

 Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) - Great resource for gravestove info!

 Burial information on dead U.S. Presidents

 The Last Words Browser- A Wary Glossary of Symbols on Tombstones.

 City of the Silent - Devoted to understanding and appreciating cemeteries.

 Crossway Cemetery - A few good pictures of stones.

 Famous Epitaphs - funny epitaphs.

 Connecticut Gravestone Network - Describes the symbolism of motifs on gravestones.

 17th, 18th & 19th Century Cape Cod Gravestones - Great Ole Gravestone of Cape Cod

 A Tomb With a View -  A quarterly newsletter is a guide to visiting well-known and not-as-well known cemeteries

 A Very Grave Matter – New England Gravestone site  links to old graveyards in Massachusetts, Maine, and  New Hampshire

 


     Databases (gravestones)

 Connecticut Cemeteries  - Free Online Databases by County.

 New England Historic Genealogy Society – Founded in 1845!

 Cemetery Maintenance and Restoration - Cemetery Drafting and Database Indexing.

 Death and Dying in Puritan New England - A Study Based on Early Gravestones, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

 War of 1812 Cemetery ~ Cheektowaga, Erie, New York - 205 listings.

 Cemeteries Listed on the U.S. Civil War Center Web Page

 National Cemetery Search - Search-base.

 Researching Funeral Home Records

 Seventh-day Adventist Obituary Index - Searchable obituary index.

 U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Database - Cemeteries

 U.S. National Cemeteries & War Veterans Burials - Text string search.

 U.S. Civil War Center

 VA National Cemeteries - Searchable cemetery lists of Civil War burials.

 World Wide Cemetery – Erect a permanent monument to your loved ones on the web.

 World Wide Index of Cemeteries on the Net

 


     Genealogy

 Genealogy.com – Commercially Available Software.

 

 Ancestry.com - Commercially Available Search

 Family Treemaker.com - Commercially Available Software.

 Firstct.com - Genealogy Search Engine

 Familiy Workings.com - Cemetery And Funeral Home Information Links.

 Tombstone Transcription Project - Their purpose is to organize volunteers who will work together to create a lasting tribute to our ancestors.

 Internment.net - Cemetery Transcriptions by Region .

 Find a GraveSee the graves of famous people from around the world or find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials.

 Cyndi’s List - Cemeteries & Funeral Homes

 Cemetery Junction – This site is about helping the genealogy community find information about their ancestors.

 US GenWeb Archives  Listed by state with a National search engine.

 Hawaiian GenWeb Archives – Erva this ones for you!

 Erie County Cemeteries - Past and Present - Tombstone inscriptions on-line.

 New England Genealogy – One of Kathleen Baker’s Pages – tons of information


     Databases (genealogy)

 Erie County Cemeteries - Past and Present - Tombstone inscriptions on-line.

 Obits.com - Internet Obituary Network

 Obituary Daily Times - North American and some world-wide newspaper obits.

 Obituary Name Search ( 7th Day Adventist ) - Always helpful!

 


     Books and How To's

 How to read tombstones - Grave rubbing, care, recording, meaning, photography.

 Cemeteries, Gravestones, Obituaries - Great resource!

 A Grave Affair - Joslin Hall Books, good resource list or acquisition of old books.

 Locating Cemeteries And Cemetery Records - Family Tree Maker.

 How To Transcribe Cemetery Data – Another helpful link to Rootsweb.com

 


 

 Background on Gravestones     Gravestone Motifs       Gravestone Symbology

  The Five Classes of Gravestones    Alphabetical Listing of Gravestone Symbols

* Light House Clock Stone   * Concord’s Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

* Salem’s Burying Point Cemetery

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