09_Finding_Island_cemeteries_p_32-36.pdf

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title	Finding Island Cemeteries
creator	Dale, J.
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	The cemetery ramble is that most enjoyable of genealogical necessities and it is not an uncommon summer sight to see the family historians of the Province on all fours deciphering and recording in Island burial grounds. For there, in a weathering inscription on a sinking headstone may be the last word on long-silent forebears. Information on Island gravestones ranges from scanty initialing to detailed accounts and eulogies and the materials in which that information has been worked vary in durability from soft slates to virtually indestructible granite. Yet cemetery monuments, despite their great importance, are both more exposed to the elements and more geographically scattered than any other single genealogical source (excepting living people and their oral traditions).
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1980
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-114
source	08
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.

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title	Finding Island Cemeteries
creator	Dale, J.
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	The cemetery ramble is that most enjoyable of genealogical necessities and it is not an uncommon summer sight to see the family historians of the Province on all fours deciphering and recording in Island burial grounds. For there, in a weathering inscription on a sinking headstone may be the last word on long-silent forebears. Information on Island gravestones ranges from scanty initialing to detailed accounts and eulogies and the materials in which that information has been worked vary in durability from soft slates to virtually indestructible granite. Yet cemetery monuments, despite their great importance, are both more exposed to the elements and more geographically scattered than any other single genealogical source (excepting living people and their oral traditions).
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1980
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-114
source	08
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.