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Thousands of FREE, searchable how-to articles from Ancestry.com publications such as Ancestry Magazine, the Ancestry Weekly Discovery and the Ancestry Monthly Update.

Archaeology, Genealogy, and GIS Meet at Columbia Cemetery

Online article on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping of the Columbia Cemetery in Boulder, Colorado.

Beyond the Index--Michael John Neill's Articles in the Ancestry Daily News

Cemetery Research and Gravestone Rubbings...a How To, Site

How to research cemeteries, care for tombstones and photograph the stones.

Cemetery Studies

Pictures of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati Ohio and lesson plans for students.

CGN Cemetery Do's & Don'ts

Includes: Cleaning Basics, Graveyard Maintenance, Gravestone Rubbings, Reading Inscriptions, Should You Seal or Waterproof Gravestones?

Cleaning Gravestones

How to article from the Connecticut Gravestone Network.

Cleaning Gravestones: Use the Gentlest Means Possible

By Camille Bowman, Architectural Conservator.

Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy - Welsh Words and Phrases on Gravestones

Finding a Burial Place in Cemeteries or Cemetery Records

Finding a Death Date in Cemeteries or Cemetery Records

Finding the Final Resting Place

Article by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.

Gravestone Rubbing for Beginners

By Jessie Lie Farber.

Headstone Abbreviations

How to do Tombstone Rubbings

How to Read A Graveyard

From DoHistory.

Locating Cemeteries and Cemetery Records

Monumental Inscriptions as Genealogy Resources

OVS-Genealogy - Taking Photos of Cemeteries, Monuments, and Tombstones

Tips and suggestions, and examples for taking photos of tombstones.