have you ever gone on a graveyard hunt?

I am quite fortunate in that I can trace almost 200 years of my family in one church yard. Several in one family tomb. There are several others in a cemetery also in the same town. My father was the last in five generations to be born in the town. Now none of us live there, but I do go back every year or two. I have traced my family back to 1687. Earlier than that I cannot be certain but I am working on it. I find everything about genealogy fascinating. I'd love to go back and just spend one day as a fly on my Great Great Grandfather's wall.

Family history is always so interesting, especially when it is your own. I too love finding out about my ancestors. Funny, my Mother's mom, my Grandmother, her parents were killed in an auto accident (in the 1920's) when she was 4 or five years old. Her Aunt and Uncle raised her, whom I know as my Great Grandmother, now of course thay have all passed away. My 13 yr old and I spent a couple hours wandering around in a Graveyard in Grass Valley and it was very interesting, I still have a picture of him by a gravestone that said "Rooni"; that's my sons nickname!

It is not for me plus I know exactly where all my relatives here in Australia are buried. They are all in the 1 cemetary and have 2 plots side by side between them. Each grave has 2 buried and 1 also has 2 lots of Ashes of other family members. I doubt that any more will be added though and in fact they are probably the last family members who will be buried in that cemetary as none of the family are living in that district now. It sounds like you had an interesting time on Saturday and thanks for sharing it with us dawnald. Yes it would be good if you could find out more about your Auntie's family and it might be possible, even after all these years. I suspect it would depend if you can locate the area where they lived and what sort of records are kept from that time. When a good friend of mine retired a few years ago, he decided it was time to do some work on his family tree. He decided one of the things he could do was take a discovery trip to his place of birth. Like many people doing that sort of thing, he found many discrepencies as things did not tally with what he had always been told. Even today (about 5 years later) he is still puzzled about how his strict religious grandparents ended up in the PAGAN part of the cemetary. So sometimes there are surprises in store for people who look into their family history and there are no answers to tjhe questions which come up.

Now this will sound weird, but........my husband and I enjoy going to cemetaries and historic graveyards. I love the old monuments and markers and we generally try to see which are the oldest stones in the graveyard. Yup. We're weird. But it sounds like you are doing a little family history and I really enjoy that too. Just a note. Pennsylvania Dutch (actually Germans who settled in Pennsylvania) were mostly Lutheran and Reformed. Some were Amish and Mennonite. But most were not.

I love old graveyards..... My dad has a farm with a really old graveyard on it. I want that field. It's always been my favorite field....... I love it... It's just so pretty. I plan on cleaning it out and taking care of the graves.... There are some hidden in the woods nearby, so I plan on finding all of them that I can. Most are so old that they are just marked with field stones.... You can try next time that you go taking a tape recorder and seeing if you can get some EVPS. I have done this once and got 1 voice. I plan on doing it again..... I am anxious to see what I get.

Yep I sure have. My family on my dad's side is from Louisiana and most of his relatives are buried at their local cemetary. During our family reunion a bunch of us went to the cemetary to find all of our long-lost, but still loved relatives from years gone-by. It's a humbling experience to see the gravesites of others whether family or not. It reminds us that life is fragile and temporary and we should live it to the fullest and with respect for others and ourselves.

Well I don't go very often to the graveyard so everytime I go I have to hunt for the plots I am looking for. I usually have to take a cell phone and ask my mom to walk me through where I am going lol I had been thinking about "hunting" for my husband's father's plot but, he doesn't want to go and there are a lot of bodies there. That's a very interesting story about your family.

I have had my family tree done and found out some of my ancestors are local. i visited the gravestone of my relatives from 100's of years back.