Gravestone Tips

Tips about Gravestone Photography and Research by Midge Frazel

Midge Frazel's Cemetery Kit

• developed with the idea from Sharon Carmack's book

 Reading Gravestone Inscriptions

• This page from the Connecticut Gravestone Network explains the use of the mirror to help read gravestone and lists some commonly seen words used on the stones.

Grave Transformations

• Lisa Louise Cooke shows us how to improve the readability of our gravestone photographs in this video presentation at YouTube.

Monument Typology and Grave Markers

• Web page (with links) lists types of gravestones and burial places

Beth Santore's Cemetery Symbolism

• Beth is an AGS trustee and has a great Web site and photos of selected cemeteries she has visited.

Association for Gravestone Studies:
 Frequently Asked Questions

• My favorite? The information about White Bronze markers.
• My blog post about White Bronze markers

• Symbols on 17th and 18th century gravestones [PDF]
• Symbols on 19th century gravestones [PDF]
• Lettering in Marble [PDF]

Cleaning and Resetting Gravestones 
How to Safely Clean a Gravestone and here plus a video

How to Safely Reset a Gravestone (in PDF from AGS) 

Basic Cemetery Links

Gravestone Photography and Rubbings

How to Survey a Cemetery
What is a "term grave"?

Tips for Taking Cemetery Photographs
by Kim Powell

eHow: How to Photograph Gravestones

Ruby Coleman's Blog (Genealogy Lines) Post:
Finding Graveyards and Tombstones

Providence Journal: Suggestions for Writing an Obituary 

The Legal Genealogist Speaks! Legal Genealogist: Find a Grave Revisited

Long List of Rules for the Long S

Learning Cemetery Research by Ancestry Ann (Genealogy Roadtrip!)

Four Ways to Research in a Cemetery



Links from Thrice Rice and Comfortable Silence Presentations

My Cemetery Kits
            http://www.flickr.com/photos/midgefrazel/sets/72157633114151145/

Association for Gravestone Studies (see frequently asked questions)
            http://www.gravestonestudies.org/

Association of Graveyard Rabbits

            http://www.thegraveyardrabbit.com/

The Farber Gravestone Collection

            http://luna.davidrumsey.com:8280/luna/servlet

Google Maps
            http://www.google.com/maps/

Find-a-Grave

            http://www.findagrave.com/

Billion Graves (needs smartphone)
            http://billiongraves.com/

Ruby's List of Helpful Ways to find Graveyards and Tombstones        
http://genalines.blogspot.com/2010/08/finding-graveyards-and-tombstones.html

Marlborough Historical Society Resource Page
            http://www.historicmarlborough.org/HistoriesofMarlborough.html

            which includes these:

History of the Town of Marlborough by (PDF)
            http://tinyurl.com/mzgth5t

Marlborough Cemetery Book (PDF)
            http://tinyurl.com/kmpomtq

updated 14 April 2015
Midge Frazel, midgef@midgefrazel.net