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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 929.5072073 EAN: 9781558705890 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1558705899 Label: Betterway Books Manufacturer: Betterway Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: April 22, 2002 Publisher: Betterway Books Studio: Betterway Books Editorial Review: Product Description: Your Guide to Cemetery Research is a comprehensive, in-depth resource that's perfect for genealogists, researchers and historians. It covers everything from cemetery and death-related terminology to clues offered by headstone art, and cemeteries' role in our culture and history. This guide also examines the funeral customs of various ethnic groups and includes a social history of death that reveals both the usual and unusual ways in which readers' ancestors coped with and celebrated death. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Helpful tips, great informationI love this book. Helpful for the geneaologist as well as the cemetery lover. Great tips on preserving tombstones, care of them, and researching those interred. Very helpful. Rating: - The Pleasure of being a 'Placophile' .This book on tombstone research isn't perfect.Yet,it is one of the most popular and facilitative ones around.The design styles and marking patterns reveal much about when the stone was cut and their popularity for their day.In the old days,cemeteries were places were the family gathered for Sunday picnics and honored the lives of their forefathers.Inscriptions were witticisms and caveats to living,reminders for the mourners.God's acre ,the final resting place for the deceased.This book offers the ... Read More Rating: - Excellent book for cemetery enthusiasts and genealogists alikeThis is the book I recommend to everyone who takes my Cemetery Art classes. There is information on how to use cemeteries as research, how to research cemeteries, how to perform gravestone rubbings properly, how to even make a cast of a gravestone, gravestone symbolism and so much more. It's the best book on cemetery research I've come across. Sharon's writing is friendly and inviting. This is a MUST! Rating: - Your Guide to Cemetery ResearchYour Guide to Cemetery Research is clearly written and comprehensive. It is an important tool for the geneologist or historian and includes many resource materials. It will be valuable to me in writing a series of articles on an important historical cemetery. Clear and cogent writing. Rating:  - Cemetery researchVery complete and informative. Good list of sources to look for information. |
