#cemeteries — Public Fediverse posts

Advertiser Democrat: Eagle Scout surveys, digitizes every West Paris cemetery. “For his final service project, [Steven] McCann decided to remap all of West Paris’ cemeteries, digitizing each one and notating the graves belonging to veterans. He led a team of 21 friends, Scouts and family members across seven sites: the Finnish Cemetery on Pioneer Street; Forbes Cemetery on Ellingwood Road; […]

🪦 Cemeterist Discord Party 💃 — today at 3pm ET!
Drop in any time with your cemetery questions, or help answer someone else's.
New to Discord? Perfect chance to try it. All welcome.
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2070425
#Cemeteries @azurerae

Cemeterist Zoom Research Party — today at 3pm ET!
Photograph, transcribe, source, and connect.
Bring a stone you can't read or a burial you can't source.
Screen sharing welcome.
All are welcome — no membership needed.
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2070427
#Cemeteries Host: @azurerae

Project Showcase: Cemeterist
This project was started on WikiTree in 2014 and has 597 members
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Cemeterist
#CollaborativeGenealogy #Cemeteries

Some truly remarkable grave markers can be found in Boneyards of Steel - Exploring The World's Aircraft Graveyards....

#aviation #aviationHistory #ww2 #graveyards #cemeteries

🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers Cemeteries 🪦

It's Cemeteries Week on WikiTree — and some cemeteries hold surprising collections of the famous and the infamous. Père Lachaise, Highgate, Hollywood Forever, Westminster Abbey, and a hamlet cemetery in eastern Oregon all make an appearance in this week's game, sponsored by our Cemeterist Project.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zm1LKCGPU-g

Sir Isaac Newton. Marie Laveau. Georges Bizet. Mel Blanc, the "Man of a Thousand Voices." John D. Rockefeller Jr. Twelve notables in all — and one of them is closer to you on the Big Tree than you'd guess.

Find out which, verify the path, and you could land in the Hall of Fame on August 25.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2071514

#Genealogy #Cemeteries #FamilyHistory #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate #CollaborativeGenealogy

Photograph a dozen headstones this week.
That's the whole assignment.
It's Cemeteries Week on @wikitree (Aug 17–23) — research parties, project challenges, and why this work matters: https://bit.ly/3UH9ghm
#Cemeteries #Genealogy