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Cemetery/Graveyard News

Have Relatives Buried in Deadwood Cemeteries?

If you’ve been tracing your family’s genealogy, and came across a member that’s buried in a Deadwood Cemetery (Deadwood, South Dakota), in an unmarked grave, you can now obtain a tombstone for free, and help provide information for future genealogists and historians.

Cleaning Up Cemeteries

In the Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), Caitlin Cleary writes about an all-too-familiar topic – neglected and forgotten cemeteries, and how some are working to get them back into shape, and on the positive side, how genealogy is spurring an interest in “reclaiming” these cemeteries, so to speak. It also mentions a little bit about how Pennsylvania [...]