Posted by admin on February 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The project to record headstone inscriptions in Cockermouth Cemetery began in the Autumn of 2004.
Gravestones have been recorded for All Saints Church Rooms and church graveyard and Allerdale Council Cemetery. Records can be searched free of charge online via cemetery or by surname.
All the headstone inscriptions in the old part of the Cemetery have now [...]
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Posted by admin on January 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Borders Family History Society aim to help people with their family history primarily in the Border counties (Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire) of Scotland, as well as in adjacent counties of England and Scotland.
Monumental Inscriptions
Shows all Monumental Inscriptions volumes currently for sale.
Society members get a discount per volume.
Search the Gravestones Index
All published volumes can [...]
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Posted by admin on January 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A great website resource called History from Headstones allows you to search the largest collection of online gravestone inscriptions in Northern Ireland.
The History From headstones database contains over 50,000 inscriptions from over 800 graveyards in counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone.
Graveyards are outdoor museums and the most accessible source for studying the local [...]
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Posted by admin on August 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The Okney Family History Society have ongoing projects to catalogue all of the graveyards of mainland Orkney and the surrounding islands.
Some of these sites have been completed and are now available in booklet form or members can view the details on the website.
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Posted by admin on November 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The owner of the Carlislehistory.co.uk website has now completed recording the names on the gravestones in Carlisle’s Richardson Street cemetery, the city’s main burial place since 1855.
A surname index has been produced to the 24,000 names recorded.
Very useful for those tracing relatives or carrying out family history research.
The site operates a very basic A [...]
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Posted by admin on July 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Gravestone Photographic Research Project is a free genealogy resource that contains an index of the names and relationships that appear on grave monuments. This information is of special interest to anyone reseaching their family history as information on tombstones is rarely listed and it is often hard to find a grave.
The database currently holds [...]
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