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Scottish headstone collection on Deceased Online tops 300,000 names

Posted by Gena Philibert Ortega on December 31, 2012 at 8:32am

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Headstone collections for 18 Fife burial sites added to Deceased Online

  • Records for 18 more burial grounds, cemeteries and churchyards in Fife have been added to the Deceased Online headstone collection from Scottish Monumental Inscriptions (SMI)
  • The records available date back to 1753, feature 39,000 names and comprise photos of headstones together with carefully transcribed digitized inscriptions for easy reading
  • There are now 51 burial sites in the Fife headstone collection available to search;
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Why I Love Old Cemeteries

Posted by Sherry Hightower on July 11, 2009 at 5:30am
Finding old and lost cemeteries is one of my favorite hobbies. I live to discover them."Who cares!", some may say.How about the descendents of those long buried and mourned, but not forgotten? How about someone like me who cherishes the history and appreciates that a life was lived, enjoyed or despaired, and then passed away from this earth?Only a few times have I been blessed to find a lost cemetery in the woods, the trees grown thick around the fence line and the headstones standing like silen
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