Your Guide to Cemetery Research
- Author: Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
- SKU: 7014
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Description:
Discover a whole new way to unearth your family history!
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack illuminates the fascinating practice of cemetery research, from determining an ancestor's final resting place to decoding mysterious headstone symbols. You'll learn how cemeteries can help fill the holes in your precious family history, including how to
- * Determine when and where a person died
- * Locate the exact cemetery in which a family
or individual is interred
- * Analyze headstones and markers
- * Interpret funerary art and tombstone
iconography, including symbols, epitaphs, and inscriptions
- * Safely make a rubbing or cast of
headstones and markers
- * Conduct cemetery surveys
- * Use cemeteries to find your living relatives
You'll gain a comprehensive overview of American burial customs, attitudes toward death, and
funeral rites for a variety of ethnic and religious groups.
Carmack also includes dozens of
helpful sidebars and appendixes that examine gravestone art, symbols, and emblems, plus a medical
glossary and historical time line of deadly diseases and epidemics. It's all you need to dig up the family
history facts you've been looking for.
"Sharon's spirit and passion for her work permeate this book...
thoroughly enjoyable, entertaining, and informative!""
- Catherine Beauvais, co-founder of
www.thefuneraldirectory.com and www.virtuallyremembered.com 272pp, soft cover. 2002
