One of my personal research goals has been to locate the final resting places of as many of my direct line ancestors as possible, easier said than done in some cases. Ideally, I would find them and take a photograph of their stone. It's a multi-part project with the first step, obviously, being to find out who they were. Since I've been at this project for quite a few years now, I've gotten to the point that I have at least five generations back for all of my direct line, and in many cases, a good bit beyond that. Though there are some that I have tracked even further back than when they arrived in America, that has been the point at which I stop when doing my research generally. As it is, that still gives me an awful lot of ancestors to locate.
So, the next step, after figuring out who they were, is to determine where they were buried, and that can be a real challenge! I use a lot of different types of resources to locate them:
- Published church records
- Find-A-Grave (http://findagrave.com)
- Obituaries
- Death records
- Funeral home records
- Published family genealogies
- Personal research, both my own and that of others
In most cases, it is a combination of records that allows me to pinpoint the final resting place and I've learned that mistakes can show up in just about any type of record.
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