Families, missionaries, young adults, youth groups and others are spending time in cemeteries, going from row to row and photographing each gravestone after signing up through JustServe.org. In the ...

*Well chances are it’s not a topic families sit around talking about: What ours or a family members’ gravestone will look like. At least not African American families. And if we absolutely must speak ...

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While over at the National Cemetery visiting the grave of my late mother, Velma Shearer, Monday afternoon and photographing it with a flag and a floral arrangement in front of it, I began to notice ...

The histories of the Jews of Europe can often best be gleaned not from monographs, museums, or synagogues, but from cemeteries. The details of the matzevot, or tombstones — the size and shape, ...

I’ve been on a genealogy kick lately, and many of my Ancestry.com rabbit holes have led me to Findagrave.com, a crowdsourcing website that has millions of photos of gravestones, cemeteries and ...

Death is not always as grim as it seems. At least not in Sapanta. That’s because bodies laid to rest in this Romanian town get another chance to tell their tales. The gravestones in Sapanta’s ...

ACUSHNET — For many local history lovers, there’s nothing more enjoyable than walking around an old burial ground on a pleasant spring or summer day, looking for clues about the lives and times of the ...

ASHMORE -- For Fairel Smith, having a picture of his mother and stepfather enshrined on their gravestone at the Enon Cemetery was not only an expensive gesture but also a prideful one as well. Smith, ...

Photos of revelers slurping back beverages by gravestones during a beer festival fund-raiser for a centuries-old church in England has triggered an apology from event organizers. St. Mary’s Norton ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) – Horry County police said two people are wanted for stealing gravestones from a business off Highway 544. A surveillance picture shows a white female and black male taking ...

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