Saturday, December 9, 2006

Pictures of Tombstones

Have you ever heard of Find A Grave? You can do a search for certain people, depending if someone contributed information. There are people who visit cemeteries and upload pictures of tombstones along with any possible information.


I learned where my great great grandmother, Blanch Josephine Chase, was buried so I went and looked to see if anyone submitted any information. No luck. What I did was I looked at most of the submissions in the specific cemetery and found out that most of it was contributed by one woman so I decided to contact her and ask if she was willing to take pictures of my great great grandmother's tombstone.

She replied and said that she was more than willing to look. Two days later, she sent me photos of her tombstone - as well as a tombstone next to it with two names of boys that died at very young ages - and posted it on the site. I thought that was incredibly nice of her. It finally verified that Donald really did exist and did die at a young age. The other name, Earl, caught me offguard because I didn't know about him.