{"id":38794993,"date":"2006-05-19T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2006\/05\/find-a-grave.html"},"modified":"2013-04-05T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:30:21","slug":"200605find-a-grave-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2006\/05\/19\/200605find-a-grave-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Find-A-Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"findagrave.jpg\"<\/a>For me, one of the most satisfying parts of my hobby of exploring family history is finding and visiting the burial sites of my relatives. And I have a growing album of photos<\/a> from such visits. While these visits sometimes can provide new information, more importantly they give me a sense of connection and satisfaction. Regardless of anyone’s individual beliefs in an afterlife, I know that one sure way to live on after death is in the memories of others. And I like that.<\/p>\n

As nice as these cemetery visits are, it’s not always possible to make them. And that’s where a great site for Genealogists and Graveyard enthusiasts can be a big help. Find-A-Grave<\/a> is a virtual cemetery in which information matching burials in real world cemeteries. For example, you can find information about my brother Sean<\/a>, and my Great Grandmother Myrtle<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n

One feature that’s available on Find-A-Grave is to request a photo. If there is a burial for which you’re interested in seeing a headstone photo, you can submit your request on the site. The request will be sent to registered users who have agreed to be photo volunteers that live near that cemetery. I have submitted a few such requests, but to earn the favor, I wanted to do the same for someone else. And I recently got the opportunity when a request to visit Hardens Hill Cemetery<\/a> and photograph a particular headstone arrived in my email.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Google Map that showed the location, it was easy to find our way to Harden’s Hill Cemetery, unexpectedly nestled in some woods at the end of a cul-de-sac in a development just minutes from our home. My daughter Colleen joined me on the hunt, and we quickly found our subject, Theodore Reid<\/a>. I took a bunch of photos, and added all of them to the appropriate internments on Find-A-Grave. The oldest burial we spotted at Harden’s Hill was in 1905, the most recent in 2005. And by the flowers all about, it was obvious this is not a forgotten cemetery. But even when there’s not human visitors, we learned that there are others keeping watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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