10 Things You Never Knew About Funeral Home History
10 things you never knew about funeral home history? Yes. Burial ceremonies have existed since the beginning of time but many traditions have changed. Our ancestors’ experiences when someone died were quite different from our own. The first funeral home in the United States was…
Lake View Cemetery: One of the Prettiest in the World
Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the prettiest garden cemeteries in the world. With more than 115,000 gravestones, it is also huge. If you go, bring your walking shoes! There is something about this cemetery that makes me think of these song…
10 Cemetery Walking Tours from Around the World
So if art, history, and nature are your passions, a cemetery walking tour will probably be right up your alley. (Warning: these 10 cemetery walking tours from around the world may make you get the “travel bug”!) Cemetery Walking Tour #1: Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans,…
RootsTech 2025 with BillionGraves
RootsTech 2025 with BillionGraves was an exciting and inspiring event for family history enthusiasts. Come peek over our shoulder and share our experience, as the BillionGraves team attended the world’s largest genealogy conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 6 – 8, surrounded by tens…
Cave Hill Cemetery – One of America’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries
Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky is one of America’s most beautiful cemeteries. From the moment you cross through the majestic Victorian entrance gates at Cave Hill Cemetery, you leave the world behind. No more honking horns, traffic jams, or flashy lights. It’s all peace and…
Cemeteries by the Sea
Cemeteries by the sea range from the breathtakingly beautiful to those being threatened by erosion to wash away. Here are ten of them. Cemeteries by the Sea #1 Waverley Cemetery in New South Wales, Australia Waverley Cemetery, in the suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales,…