Gravestone Tips

 In the Shade of the Elm Tree

• My Web page with many resources for gravestone information

 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

David Lambert's Online Presentation on Transcribing Gravestones 

• uses Macromedia Breeze (which is a browser "add on" which you may have to  install to view this but it is free)

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]

Important Information: How to Safely Clean a Gravestone

Tips for Taking Cemetery Photographs
by Kim Powell

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

Providence Journal: Suggestions for Writing an Obituary 

The Legal Genealogist Speaks!



Last updated: 20 June 2012