10 Gravestone Clues to Find Your Ancestors
Gravestone clues may be just the thing you need to break through your genealogical brick walls and find your ancestors! Headstones are frequently overlooked as tools for family history research but YOU can be a gravestone detective! Even if you know the names and key…
“What’s New, BillionGraves?” 8 Great Tips!
“What’s new, BillionGraves?” Lots of things! Below are 8 great tips that will help you find your own ancestors and enable you to help others grow their family trees. BillionGraves has an amazing new map to help you find cemeteries where gravestone photos still need…
10 of the World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries
“10 of the World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries” – it’s a list that should be easy to compile! But there are SO many beautiful cemeteries around the world it is a challenge to choose just ten. There are cemeteries that overlook the ocean, cemeteries deep in…
The Final Resting Places of Three Famous Authors
The final resting places of three famous authors – William Shakespeare, Jule Verne, and Charles Dickens – are a remembrance of those who spent their lifetime sculpting their thoughts into stories, plays, and scripts that have inspired the world. It has been said that “A writer…
Final Resting Places of 3 Classical Music Composers
The final resting places of three classical music composers – Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart – remind us of a musician’s ability to “let the last note linger”. A lingering note is the feeling that is left in the air after a song has ended….
Ostrich Feather Funerals of the Victorian Era
Ostrich feather funerals might sound very odd to us in our day but in the 1800s, they were all the rage. An elegant funeral just wouldn’t have been prestigious at all without an abundance of ostrich feathers. The fluffy plumes could be found just about…