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Cemetery sleuths, tombstone treasure hunters, graveyard groupies: whatever you want to call us. It is a new hobby for Barb and me. Ever since discovering Findagrave.com, we have become more and more involved in the task of photographing gravestones and creating memorials online. The site calls us GRAVERSIt started off by posting bios and obits for our own loved ones and ancestors and has progressed to creating memorials for friends and now for complete strangers. Find a grave was started by Jim Tipton, a Utah husband and father. As the site says What began as an oddhobby became a livelihood and a passion. Every day, contributors from around the world enter new records, thousands use the site as an educational reference tool, long-lost loved ones are located and millions of lives are fondly remembered.Why do we do this? The information, we believe, is important for many reasons. Burial information is a wonderful resource for genealogists. It is also of historical importance to have a record of all those people who have been a part of our collective humanity. Most importantly, visiting a gravesite is a way of keeping the memory of someone alive. At this virtual cemetery loved ones can visit graves, leave flowers, etc. when they cannot do so in real life due to geography, finances, including the skyrocketing price of gasoline and other circumstances. So far our hobby has had us visiting three cemeteries in Arlington, one in Grand Prairie, and one in Fort Worth. Somehow I do not think we will get out to all 358 cemeteries in Dallas and Tarrant County, but we keep our backpack & camera handy just in case.
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