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Rootdiggers are back! Check our weekly news letterWe 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. 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.
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This site was last updated 05/20/12