[AT] funny..

[Ed Stewart]

Hi, I enjoy tramping the old cemeteries, I also have been doing a lot of 
my families tree. You can find a lot of interesting stories to go along 
with your ancestors. My grandfather on my Dads side is buried next to 
his brother-in-law in an unmarked grave, It took me some time looking at 
cemetery records to find him, My grandmother had been gone for for a few 
years when I started looking for family info. I asked my grandmother one 
time why he didn't have a marker and her exact reply was" he was such a 
miserable S of a B that he wasn't getting one" I never knew the man 
because he died 65 years ago, two years before I was born. My grandma 
was very outspoken... Ed

Ralph Goff wrote:
> Francis Robinson wrote:
>>     A cemetery morbid??? Not to a genealogist...   ;-)
>>     There is a TV commercial on now that shows a couple getting all 
>> upset
>> because they just looked out the window and discovering that outside 
>> of the
>> window of their great hotel room is a huge very old cemetery. They start
>> preparing to leave at once. If that were a genealogist the reaction 
>> would be
>> "COOL!!!! Let's go look..."   ;-)   ;-)
>>     As a parallel, imagine looking out of your new hotel window and 
>> seeing a
>> huge collection of restored antique tractors, each with a story to tell.
>> :)> 
> Yes, some may think it strange but I find old cemeteries and 
> headstones interesting to explore. I figure its just an extension of 
> my appreciation for all things old (including tractors).
>  I do cemetery look-ups and headstone photos for other genealogists 
> from other parts of the world, plus I have had others do the same for me.
> We do have a few rural cemeteries here but I think some of them were 
> originally Church sites. The Church having long since disappeared 
> there is only the graveyard left. Most in this area are well 
> maintained. A lot of the Sask. cemeteries are gradually being 
> transcribed and put online for others to search which I think is a 
> great idea.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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