In the Shade of The Elm Tree

General Resources

Web Resources by Midge Frazel
Photograph taken at Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, CT in 2003

The Association for Gravestone Studies
http://www.gravestonestudies.org/
I am a member of this organization

Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.gravestonestudies.org/faq.htm
Resources
http://www.gravestonestudies.org/resources.htm

Cyndi's List: Cemeteries
http://www.cyndislist.com/cemetery.htm

Interment.net
http://www.interment.net

Tombstone Transcription Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/

A Very Grave Matter
http://www.gravematter.com/default.asp
A Very Grave Matter: List of Links

Saving Graves
http://www.savinggraves.com/

Cemeteries, Graveyards and Burying Grounds
http://www.potifos.com/cemeteries.html

Genealogy.com: Virtual Cemetery
http://www.genealogy.com/vcem_welcome.html

Waterhouse Symbolism
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waterhousesymbolism/

Tips for Photographing Gravestones
http://ccmdgs.org/cemetery_transcription/Photocems/PhotoGuidesm.htm

Cemetery Symbols Photo Gallery
http://genealogy.about.com/od/cemetery_records/ig/tombstone_symbols/index.01.htm

Selected Web Sites

Nantucket (MA) Cemeteries Transcription Project
http://www.nha.org/library/cemeteries/index.html

Grave Concerns
http://www.arkansaspreservation.org/
pdf/publications/Grave_Concerns.pdf
Arkansas Manual for Gravestone Preservation

Glossary of Victorian Cemetery Symbolism
http://www.vintageviews.org/
vv-tl/pages/Cem_Symbolism.htm

Cemetery Junction Directory
http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/

Cemetery Records Online
http://www.geneasearch.com/cemeteries.htm

CT Gravestone Network
http://www.ctgravestones.com/
Reading Gravestone Transcriptions
http://www.ctgravestones.com/Conservation/
inscriptions.htm

The Undertaker's Grave
http://marbleorchards.com/index.htm
Selected Pages at this site
The Burying Point, Salem
http://marbleorchards.com/Salem/page4.htm
Gettysburg National Military Park, PA
http://marbleorchards.com/
Gettysburg-National/page2.html

Find-a-Grave
http://www.findagrave.com
Selected Pages at this site
Abigail Adams
John Alden
Lizzie Borden
Milton Bradley
ee Cummings

Massachusetts Cemetery Directory
http://www.mass-doc.com/mass_cemetery_guide.htm

Rhode Island Cemeteries Database
http://members.tripod.com/~debyns/cemetery.html

New London County, CT Cemeteries
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctnewlon/
NewLonCem.htm

Saving Graves: Massachusetts
http://www.savinggraves-us.org/ma/index.htm

Standards for Transcribing Cemeteries

Cemetery Studies

Cemetery Transcription Form
from Family Tree Magazine
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/
upload/images/pdf/cemetery.pdf

Gravestone Photographic Resource
http://www.gravestonephotos.com
Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Wales and England

Cemetery Data Report Forms
locate Excel or Acrobat format
for requesting a download
http://www.censustools.com/census/download.html

Commemorative Flagholders and Plaques
http://www.joycetice.com/flaghold/flaghold.htm

City of the Silent: Grave Terminology
http://www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/
pages/Cem_Symbolism.htm

Cemetery History and Preservation
http://www.potifos.com/cemeteries.html

Cape Cod Gravestones
http://www.capecodgravestones.com/
Falmouth [MA] Cemetery Project
http://www.falgen.org/cem/

USGS Mapping Page
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic

Monument Typology and Grave Markers
http://www.tngenweb.org/darkside/typology.html

Glossary of Symbols and Terms for Studying Cemeteries
http://www.history.org/History/
teaching/glossary2.cfm

Gravestone Symbolism
http://edutel.musenet.org:8042/
gravenet/gravenet_symbols.html

Gravestone Motifs
http://www.savinggraves.org/
education/bookshelf/carvings.htm

For Educators

Arkansas Historical Cemetery Project
Historic Cemeteries: History Written in Stone
and
Over 100 Things to Do in a Cemetery

Learning About Ourselves by Visiting the Past
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/
Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/History/HIS0202.html
...middle school lesson

CSI: Cemetery Scene Investigation
...a very special 21st century project

Graveyards and Markers
http://www.cdpheritage.org/educator/
graveyards.html
...middle school lesson

Cemetery Studies
http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/cemetery/
...eighth grade

The Cemetery: History Written in Stone
http://histpres.mtsu.edu/then/Cemetery/

Death and Dying in the 18th and 19th Centuries
http://memorialhall.mass.edu/classroom/
curriculum_8th/lesson1/bkgdessay.html

Cemetery of Famous Americans
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/
Lessons/2299.htm

Digital History: Puritans Gravestones as History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/puritans/puritans_gravestones.cfm

Print Resources

Your Guide to Cemetery Research
by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack

Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries
by David Allen Lambert


In the Shade of the Elm Tree
In Memory of Jim Davis ...superintendent at Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, CT

In the Shade of the Elm Tree