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Title: Your Guide to Cemetery Research by Sharon Debartolo Carmack ISBN: 1-55870-589-9 Publisher: Betterway Pubns Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best there is
Comment: I've read, or tried to read :) many genealogy books. I often skim them because they can get VERY boring.
Sharon Debartolo Carmack knows how to write!
She adds bits of humor and tells it like it is in very understandable form.
I enjoyed this book very, very much!
Rating: 5
Summary: For anyone involved in serious genealogical research
Comment: Your Guide To Cemetary Research will intrigue anyone involved in serious genealogical research, posing a whole new way to uncover family roots and facts trough research into cemeteries and their contents. From learning how cemeteries operate and how funerary art and tombstone iconography can lend to an understanding of history to making headstone rubbings and conducting cemetery surveys, Your Guide To Cemetary Research is packed with practical applications.
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific book to take along on field trips
Comment: Betterway Books started out publishing mostly craft and hobby guides, which led them into genealogy, and, under the editorship of Carmack herself, they have become one of the most reliable publishers of high quality methodological volumes in our field. Carmack, who is also a Certified Genealogist, has written two volumes in the "Discovering Your . . . Ancestors" series (on women and immigrants) and the very practical _Organizing Your Family Research,_ as well as a number of compiled genealogies, all of which have been well received. This new book maintains her high standard. Non-genealogists generally look askance at anyone who likes to hang around graveyards, but since that?s where the majority of our ancestors are to be found, we family researchers approach the subject differently. Carmack has had a particular interest in cemetery research for years (and has published other works on the subject), and she leads the reader expertly through the many research steps necessary for success. First, there are the records created when someone dies -- not just the death certificate and obituary, but coroner?s reports, prayer cards, funeral home records, and census mortality schedules. Then you have to figure out where the interment took place, which means understanding the records cemeteries themselves create, whether municipal, commercial, or church-connected. Once you know where to look, you have to know what to look *for* -- not just the grave marker itself but (as in all genealogical research) the context in which it exists. And that?s only the first quarter of the book! There?s a great deal more to learn regarding tombstone rubbings and photography, ethnic and regional burial customs, cemetery preservation (a growing problem in the U.S., unfortunately), and how to organize and carry out a cemetery recording project. Cemeteries used to be gathering places for the whole family, so the final chapter even makes suggestions on how to picnic respectfully in a cemetery. One appendix provide clues on the meaning of symbolic gravestone art and initials, while another gives a timeline of significant epidemics, disasters, and other causes of multiple deaths in America, and a third explains causes of death which you?re likely to find listed on death certificates. There are also forms for use in cemetery surveys and an eight-page bibliography. This is easily the most comprehensive guide I have seen on the subject.
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