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 The Dead Easy Guide to Cemeteries And Cemetery Online Record
As strange as it may seem, you can access sites on the net that provide a cemetery online record. They are definitely worth a look and so is this excellent article: A Guide to Discovering Your Ancestors in Cemeteries Ghoul or Genealogist? Because family historians have this obsession with death - well, not quite but I'm sure we are viewed that way by many, you may feel reluctant to embark on this quest to research headstones and other such ghouly pursuits. I for one find cemeteries fascinating repositories of the past. The information available to you can range from meagre to sumptuous. If you can access the actual records, whether online or on location, you may be reward with at least where the grave is situated and if you are really lucky, a headstone inscription. For instance: 
EDWIN DAVIES ELIZA DALE WIFE OF JAMES DALE DIED 12MO 2ND 1885 AGED 42 YEARS ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER LILLY DIED 1ST MO 17TH 1889 AGED 22 YEARS SARAH DIED 1ST MO 1ST 1891 AGED 18 YEARS Betsy, wife of Thomas Phelps, who departed this life Aug. 16th 1895 aged 59 years. "In the paradise of God." Rev.2.7. (interred Aug. 21st) Also of Sarah Ann, their daughter wife of Robert Hooper, who departed this life April 18th 1895 aged 38 years. Thy will be done. St.Luke 22.42. (interred April 23rd) Also of Thomas Phelps, died Aug. 15th 1819 aged 81. Also of Lucy Phelps, died June 21st 1918 aged 48. Thy will be done. And yes, there is even comical inscriptions. On comedian Spike Milligans headstone, who died in 2002, and written in gaelic:
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