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We have been away for a while, now we are back to help solve some of the mysteries of lost family members. We will be listing a few links that we find most useful.
Anything we think will be of help to you will be noted here.

One of my favorite projects is visiting cemeteries and making pictures of headstones. I enter these pictures into the database at Find A Grave.  This is a remarkable FREE website that contains many thousand of memorials in a searchable database. As I go about making pictures and entering them into Find A Grave I realized a need to determine family members. This prompted me to enter these people into a tree on Ancestry.com. This helps me research the ladies maiden names as well as other family members.

This entire tree is published here as a list of names with links to family members.

What happens when a cemetery is abandoned? Too often a cemetery falls into disrepair and is more or less abandoned.  Well I just learned there is hope for relatives or genealogist. You may need to do some research for your state just as I have for Alabama. It turns out that if the cemetery is in Alabama you may have rights that you are unaware of. Here is a link that will explain the law. Here is a partial quote from the Findlaw site:

 Owners and lessees of private land on which a cemetery, graves, or burial sites are located shall have a duty to allow ingress and egress to the cemetery, graves, or burial sites by (1) family members, friends, or descendants of deceased persons buried there; (2) any cemetery plot owner; and (3) any person engaged in genealogical, historical, or cultural research, who has given reasonable notice to the owner of record or to the lessees, or both.