The Family Tree Cemetery Field Guide

How to Find, Record, and Preserve Your Ancestor's Grave

Joy Neighbors (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2017
Family Tree Books (Verlag)
978-1-4403-5212-6 (ISBN)

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Not all research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head into the field. Cemeteries are crucial for any genealogist's search, and this book will show you how to search for and analyze your ancestors' graves. Discover tools for locating tombstones, tips for traipsing through cemeteries, an at-a-glance guide to frequently used gravestone icons, and practical strategies for on-the-ground research. And once you've returned home, learn how to incorporate gravestone information into your research, as well as how to upload grave locations to BillionGraves and record your findings in memorial pages on Find A Grave.

Detailed step-by-step guides to finding ancestors' cemeteries using websites like Find A Grave, plus how to record and preserve death and burial information
Tips and strategies for navigating cemeteries and finding individual tombstones in the field, plus an at-a-glance guide to tombstone symbols and iconography
Resources and techniques for discovering other death records and incorporating information from cemeteries into genealogical research

Joy Neighbors, Flatrock, IL, agraveinterest.blogspot.com, has been a professional writer for thirty years. Her cemetery connections run deep, and she writers the widely read cemetery culture blog, A Grave Interest.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4403-5212-7 / 1440352127
ISBN-13	978-1-4403-5212-6 / 9781440352126
Zustand	Neuware