I usually accept the death date on a gravestone, as many (not all*) are
placed shortly after the person's death. I always look for confirmation
of the birth date. Except in the case of a child who does not outlive the
parents, the person placing the marker was probably not present at the
There are many reasons dates can be not-accurate so I only take each one
as 'in the vicinity' until further notice. One of my grandmothers, on a
whim, *preferred* to be born in 1900 rather than 1899, so she simply
decided the date was 1900, and went through life assigning that to all
official
I am still trying to deal with the concept of a 100 foot tall obelisk.
10 stories tall? Has to be more than one stone, for sure.
Elizabeth C
JLB wrote:
Much to my embarrassment, one group of my relatives was buried in or
under or near an obelisk about 100 feet high. It's set on
OK, I guess I qualify as the resident expert on gravestones, being in
the monument business for nearly 30 years, and being a long time
Legacy user with a strong interest in photography, databases and
genealogy among other things.
I have heard over the years, just about every excuse or reason for
Elizabeth and others while a monument a 100 foot tall is a little hard
to imagine from one
stone. Here is a site from Dick Eastman that has some very large and
very unique monuments. Many made from one stone. Looking closely at
some of the bases you can
see some are monuments for 6 or more
and Legacy: How do you do it?
OK, I guess I qualify as the resident expert on gravestones, being in
the monument business for nearly 30 years, and being a long time
Legacy user with a strong interest in photography, databases and
genealogy among other things.
I have a way of handling
JLB wrote
As much as one might imagine that a gravestone 16 or 100 feet high was
an Event, I don't use it that way.
I wouldn't regard it as an Event, no matter how tall, but the fact of
having a gravestone is just that, a Fact, and I see no reason not to
record it as one *if one wishes*.
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As much as one might imagine that a gravestone 16 or 100 feet high was
an Event, I don't use
Jenny M Benson wrote:
JLB wrote
As much as one might imagine that a gravestone 16 or 100 feet high was
an Event, I don't use it that way.
I wouldn't regard it as an Event, no matter how tall, but the fact of
having a gravestone is just that, a Fact, and I see no reason not to
record it as
As it was discussed recently, photos don't print in reports with the
vital events: birth, christening, death and burial. So if one wanted to
print a gravestone photo in a report a separate event would have to be
made of Burial. I don't see the point since Burial is already there. I
could
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I would think that the size of tombstones would be connected somewhere
with the deaths. I think the stone photos should be in the photos
within an event of burial
But maybe I'm missing some important things but I try to keep
things organized so that when
repeatedly - we each do it our own way :)
Claire
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Hello everyone. I have transcribed a few family cemeteries, and thought
I would enter them into Legacy. A few headstones are problematic for
me, and I wondered if anyone here came across the same situation and how
you resolved it.
[This one might be for Geoff.]
A few headstones I have are
Much to my embarrassment, one group of my relatives was buried in or
under or near an obelisk about 100 feet high. It's set on relatively
level ground dwarfing all other average sized stones for miles. I
think that one contained the names of about 10 people. Despite their
apparent sense of
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