Cemetery records provide valuable information about our ancestors' lives, and this one-stop field guide will help you find your ancestors' graves, understand and record headstone inscriptions and symbols and preserve the monuments for years to come. Not all genealogy research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head out into the field. Cemeteries are vital sites for any genealogist's search, and this book will walk you through all steps of searching for and analyzing ancestors' graves, from locating tombstones, using resources like FindAGrave to incorporating information from tombstones in research to traipsing through cemeteries across the country. This comprehensive field guide features a number of resources for genealogists visiting cemeteries, providing an at-a-glance guide to frequently used gravestone markers and practical tips for on-the-ground research. And once you have returned home, this guide discusses how to incorporate gravestone information into research, as well as how to record findings in memorial pages on FindAGrave.
