Tombstone rubbing, have you ever done it?  

There are many sites that have directions. The best one is from the Association of Gravestone Studies for beginnners. There are also notes and examples from a college class online. That one is How to do a gravestone rubbing, by Aisling D'Art: Class notes

If you wish to find out more, those were the best two that I found and I've been online researching for a while now. With just those two, you can learn a great deal. However, remember that the class used castings from gravestones, that means that they did not use actual old gravestones that could be damaged. Also make sure you practice on something and read all the information from the AGS (association named above). Some of the things like oil paints might bleed through and ruin the stones. The nice thing about that double-sided rubbing paper was that there was no danger of anything rubbing through, even though we pretty much ran around doing modern urban kinds of things in college.

I hope you're not disappointed now. I just put this post up. So I imagine it will be awhile before others post. White marble is what we have a lot of in old cemetaries here and that is what we must be the most careful of.

Now would be a good time for you to check out the responses.

Archival reasons, many fields have cemetaries up here. Eventually all of it washes away. If we can see it, better off to take a picture with a camera, if we can't see it, then maybe it won't come out with a paper and writing object either.

I would think nothing would stay on wax paper. I can't write on that with anything I own. Unless one side isn't waxed and that's the side you do it on.

An old military cemetary would be of great interest to my husband.

It was of interest to me and college kids. One side of the paper is shiny(waxy) and the other isn't. The shiny side sort of helps make it stick alittle to the stone and easier to trace over.

Interesting.
It wasn't on the list for the Gravestone rubbing societies, that kind of paper, either. It's a thought. Thanks and take care

That almost sounds like freezer paper, like they use to make appliques and quilt blocks in. That would work. So would parchment paper, but it would not stick like what Celtic is describing.

Yes, those would work fine too. It just always easier to get the wax paper than these others.

Well in the countryside, there are all kinds of graveyards. In the old days, they put people in the fields before they had a common graveyard by religion or town.

Sounds interesting that you remember your Mom talking about it. Thanks and take care.

My dad just recently told me where some great great relatives are buried, and it is near my son in law's family home.

GG, that will be interesting.

That's really good that you still have them.
Geneological is cool.
You must be a lot better than I am with contact paper, I'd have them wrinkled and a mess. I'd need another person helping me.

I'll have to look up transfer paper and see if that's it. Thanks, I hope it is.
If you check my response to #1, you'll see some good places to research grave stone rubbing. Thanks and take care.

Well, when you're little, it's all rocks and rocks are older than us. Thanks for responding and take care.