Digging up the Details: using Cemeteries and Cemetery Records in Family History Research

Where and how our ancestors were buried provides information about how they lived. Archivist Sue VerHoef teaches how to use online and on-site resources to locate where our ancestors are laid to rest once you have found the gravesite of that elusive ancestor, details on the grave marker can provide more clues. From death heads to sunflowers, anchors to lambs, gravestone imagery is explored and explained.