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Hey all! I’d like to share a tale of mine from a few weeks ago. I’ve been on a few years long hunt for my 2nd great grandmother and I thinking I'm finally starting to narrow down where she was buried at and who she was. Anyways, I had gotten a tip from another relative of mine who does genealogy and went to look in this local cemetery. Around my area, cemeteries with stones going back over 150-200 years ago are quite common, and as a freelance headstone cleaner, I’ve seen quite a lot in my area. The one I went to was on the side of a hill, so it wasn’t the easiest to get up, but it had dozens of headstones. After searching for a while, I was unable to find the particular headstone I was looking for. I did, however, find some of my other relatives who I had no idea were buried up there.

After I got back, I went to update the cemetery’s Find a Grave page because it had no photograph of the sign. While doing this, I found another cemetery nearby, which I believe has the stone I’m looking for. When I get a chance, I’ll go and look, and I’ll update the community if I have any luck.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looking for one and finding others, funny!

Are these small cemeteries in your area? I surmise that your family must be local if you're able to find multiple relatives in short distance from your place

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yep! My family has been in this area since around 1700 as far as I can tell. There’s at least 5 or 6 cemeteries near by that either are [my last name] cemetery or have family members buried in them