OK, I admit it, I made the term up. I'm using it as a generic term for my hobby of searching out the places where my ancestors have ended their days, along with some of the more interesting stories that I come across in the process. I've been doing this genealogy thing for quite a few years now so I've ended up with lots of tidbits of data and tons of pictures, especially since I've become the unofficial family historian.
One thing I've found over the years of chatting with others who enjoy this hobby, is that most folks tend to focus on particular ares in their research - some work a lot with census records, others with old church records and so on. While I use those as well, my focus has always been on using the information found in graveyards to document my ancestors (and quite a few that aren't ancestors as well). Part of the reason that I do this is because gravestones are generally pretty accurate since they are created at the actual time of the event, rather than years later. While it is possible for the information on a stone to be wrong, it seems to happen far less frequently than the errors that are found in many other types of records.
So, yeah, I look for dead people, as my daughter and husband refer to my hobby.
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