Fort Snelling National Cemetery is the resting place of my parents, parents-in-law, aunts, uncles, and other relatives and friends. This weekend 5000 volunteers placed American flags on each and every gravesite at the cemetery. I thank them for this enormous task. They all placed more than 200,000 flags. I know some genealogists who participated in […]
UPDATE 18 August: The car show has been cancelled. The pressure to not do other things like this got to the cemetery board. It makes me sad. I love watching house buying shows on cable TV. I laugh every time the realtor or buyer mentions the negative feature of a house being across the street […]
The 700 acre Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California, is joining in on saving water. According to an article in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Rose Hills once required 293 million gallons of potable water a year, as much used in several cities. The article further states: “On Wednesday, the cemetery put an end […]
I love this story in yesterday’s St. Paul Pioneer Press. A couple in Austin in Southern Minnesota were married this past Saturday near their parents’ graves in Austin’s Oakwood Cemetery so their parents could be at the wedding. Their engagement began in the cemetery after the couple reconnected via Facebook. Click here for the full […]
It’s easy to do this by taking advantage of a cemetery tour in your area. October brings historical cemetery tours in many localities. Beware of the ghosts! I found these examples: Alexandria, Virginia: www.alexcolonialtours.com/graveyard.html Atlanta, Georgia: www.oaklandcemetery.com/capturingHalloween.html Northfield, Minnesota: www.northfieldhistory.org/ Biloxi, Mississippi: www.gulfcoast.org/events/index.cfm?EventID=1761 Carson City, Nevada: http://carsonnow.org/event/10/13/2010/friends-low-places-carson-city-cemetery-tour The easy way to find them is to […]
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 65 years ago today, the Soviet Army liberated the Jewish prisoners who remained at Auschwitz-Berkenau which combined were the largest of the Holocaust death camps. A CBS news story gives details of the elderly survivors who revisited the camps today. That story said “By the end of World War […]
Back in the 1990s I was teaching a class at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. That was pre-PowerPoint days! I don’t remember what the class topic was but it included an overhead of a letter from a cemetery I had contacted in the 1980s. It was from Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. […]