Posts about cemetery records and cemeteries, including primary sources  documenting deaths and burials and finding grave-sites.

20 Oct 2012

Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France

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Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, is the American Battlefield Monuments Commission's most visited cemetery, receiving approximately one million visitors each year. Normandy American Cemetery, taken on our visit 6 Oct 2012. The [...]

18 Oct 2011

Tombstone Tuesday: Major Harry Winfield Schenck

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Tombstone Tuesday: Major Harry Winfield Schenck is about visiting  the United States Military Academy Post Cemetery at West Point. Over 100 notables are buried there, but I wanted to pay my respects at the grave of [...]

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