Past Blog Post Archive
Blog Stats
- 141,668 hits
- Follow Ups Downs Family History on WordPress.com
Facebook Like
RSS Links
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsFollow Us
-
Recent Posts
- Drizzle and Hurricane Books – Featured Blogger of the Week January 15, 2021
- Pinterest — Hungry Suzy
- Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry – January 14, 2021
- January 15 – Meaulte Military Cemetery. Roll of Honour — Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day
- Ancestry Will Discontinue AncestryDNA Health Tests – January 15, 2021
Category Cloud
Tags
- 23andMe
- Amazon
- Ancestry.com
- AncestryDNA
- Autosomal DNA
- BackerKit
- Bible
- BillionGraves
- Blogs
- Books
- Bundle of Holding
- Cell Phones
- Cemeteries
- Copyright
- DNA
- DNA Saturdays
- DriveThru RPG
- Family
- FamilySearch
- FamilyTree DNA
- Fanatical.com
- Featured Blogger of the Week
- Featured Vlogger of the Week
- Find-A-Grave
- FindMyPast
- FindMyPastDNA
- FindMyPast Fridays
- First Nations/Native American
- Food
- Forgiveness Sundays
- Gaming
- Gaming Sunday
- Humble Bundle
- Humor
- Indiegogo
- Kansas
- Kansas Tuesdays
- Kickstarter
- LivingDNA
- LotR
- mental health
- Middle Earth
- military history
- Mississippi
- Mississippi Mondays
- mtDNA
- Museums
- MyHeritage
- MyHeritage DNA
- MyHeritageDNA
- Naval History
- Newspapers
- North Carolina
- North Carolina Thursdays
- Patreon
- RPGs
- Sedgwick County
- Social Media
- Space Saturdays
- TeloYears
- Tombstone Tuesday
- Veritas Genetics
- Wayback Machine
- WeGene
- Weirdness Wednesdays
- Wichita
- Wikipedia
- WordPress
- World War I
- World War II
- Y-DNA
- YouTube
Menu
Gravatar
Calendar
Blogs I Follow
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweets
Blog Archives
KansasGravestones.org Cemeteries – Tombstone Tuesdays January 12, 2021
This week’s Tombstones Tuesdays post is about one state originally mentioned in this post – Gravestones.org Websites – Tombstone Tuesdays March 12, 2019, specifically Kansas Kansas Gravestones. Over 102,000 headstones from around Kansas. Going to be much shorter than most … Continue reading
Tournai Communal Cemetery, Tournai, Belgium – Tombstone Tuesdays December 29, 2020
After seeing this post last night – December 28. Tournai Communal Cemetery. Roll of Honour — Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day, original post: December 28. Tournai Communal Cemetery. Roll of Honour — Remembrance NI – Every … Continue reading
Learn Cemetery Rules – Tombstone Tuesdays December 22, 2020
Cemeteries have rules and regulations. I came across one cemetery that so many restrictions the list was pages long. Some of these were related to type and style of grave markers. Many involved specifics on requirements for a funeral. Even … Continue reading
Saving Vermont’s Oldest Jewish Cemetery – Tombstones Tuesdays December 15, 2020
I noticed this recently – Saving Vermont’s Oldest Jewish Cemetery: https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/vermont_wire/saving-vermonts-oldest-jewish-cemetery/article_dc2613d9-ed33-5205-a1a6-d6277a50a230.html. I thought the cemetery was a good Tombstones Tuesdays choice. On Find-A-Grave, it has 173 memorials, but it’s expected many more were buried there, but the headstones have been lost. There … Continue reading
Find-A-Grave and Copyright – Tombstone Tuesdays December 8, 2020
Standard Disclaimer: I am not an attorney and any comments I post are not intended, nor should they be construed, as legal advice. If you need legal advice, please consult a legal expert who is familiar with the area of … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggers, Cemetery
Tagged Ancestry.com, Copyright, Find-A-Grave, Obit, Tombstone Tuesday
Leave a comment
Serre Road Cemetery No 2 – Tombstone Tuesdays December 1, 2020
The inspiration for this week’s Tombstone Tuesdays is this post – Serre Road Cemetery No 2: December 1. The largest cemetery on the Somme. Roll of Honour BillionGraves: https://billiongraves.com/cemetery/Serre-Road-Cemetery-No-2/296692 CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/67200/serre-road-cemetery-no.2/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/140029992732757/posts/serre-road-cemetery-no-2-which-includes-the-grave-of-captain-james-samuel-davids/2394417773960623/ Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2162036/serre-road-cemetery-no.-2 (0 Famous memorials Flickr: Some listings located https://www.flickr.com/photos/greentool2002/albums/72157671682726923/ Google Maps: … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggers, Cemetery, Military History
Tagged CWGC, Tombstone Tuesday, World War I
Leave a comment
WINGED SKULL GRAVESTONE SYMBOLS – BillionGraves Tombstone Tuesdays November 24, 2020
I saw this yesterday on BillionGraves – WINGED SKULL GRAVESTONE SYMBOLS: http://blog.billiongraves.com/winged-skull-gravestone-symbols/. Article is longer, but I shortened it to give a glimpse. Cathy Wallace, November 23, 2020 10 min read Winged skull gravestone symbols were common in 18th-century cemeteries. While they … Continue reading
Grand Gulf Cemetery – Tombstones Tuesdays November 17, 2020
I saw this cemetery, Grand Gulf Cemetery, yesterday on Mississippi Mondays post: http://Grand Gulf Military State Park, Port Gibson – Mississippi Mondays November 16, 2020. I thought the cemetery was a good Tombstones Tuesdays choice. On Find-A-Grave, it has 173 memorials, … Continue reading
Happy 245th Marine Corps Birthday – 10 November 2020
Commandant’s 245th Marine Corps Birthday Message https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjz7U7uZPw (around 8:02 minutes long) 245th Marine Corps Birthday Cake Cutting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHikPfYh0CU (around 13:50 minutes long) Official website: https://www.marines.mil/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marines Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marine_corps/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marines/ Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/marines Twitter: https://twitter.com/usmc YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/Marines
Posted in Bloggers, Military History
1 Comment
Crown Hill Cemetery – Tombstone Tuesdays October 13, 2020
I mentioned the 7 largest cemeteries on a previous Tombstone Tuesdays – The 7 Largest Cemeteries in the World — BillionGraves Blog – Tombstone Tuesdays June 16, 2020, and this week I am focusing on the tenth largest cemetery; on … Continue reading