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• No F-words on headstones

  
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  Late rappers family denied headstone inscribed with song lyric because it included the F-word Sonny ‘Uno’ Santiago, 23, was a rapper who died in a car crash in February. Commissioners at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn this week unanimously...
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• Corpse Roads: Exploring Eerie Medieval Burial Paths and Coffin Lines

  
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  (Images: via Wikipedia ; Pyle, Howard ; public domain;  cathietinn ; Nigel Chadwick ; cc- sa-3.0 ) Corpse roads are routes that once carried the dead from their old residences to the graveyards in which they were to be buried. Even today, these eerie paths are feared by those who believe they are still used by ...
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• Skywatch Friday - Floral Haven Flags

  
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  At a local cemetery in a section reserved for veterans. There is a funeral home on the grounds whose phone number differs from ours by one digit. We have had several phone calls over the years from some really sad sounding people. Skywatch Friday
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• 31 London Cemeteries To Visit Before You Die

  
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  You’ve got to applaud the title of this new book, which takes a cheeky sideswipe at the burgeoning list of ‘before you die’ and ‘before you hit 30′ titles that turn curiosity about the world into a series of to-do lists. It’s surely only a matter of time before someone publishes “1000 Craft Shops to ...
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• BOSTON BOMBER OFFERED BURIAL WITH AMERICAS MOST HONORED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY - THATS RIGHT, FOLKS

  
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  http://janmorganmedia.com/2013/05/boston-bomber-offered-burial-with-americas-most-honored-at-arlington-national-cemetery/ DESPICABLE, HORRIFIC, GHOULISH AND IMPOSSIBLE TO GET MY BRAIN AROUND. IF I CAN FIND OUT WHO GAVE THIS ORDER....I GUESS WE GO INTO HIGH GEAR VERBAL PRESSURE.
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• FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com Updates and Additions – May 7, 2013

  
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  FamilySearch.org Brazil Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965 Canada Quebec Notarial Records, 1800-1900 Dominican Republic Dominican Republic, Civil Registration, 1801-2010 Guatemala Guatemala, Civil Registration, 1877-2008 Honduras Honduras, Catholic Church Records, 1633-1978 Italy Italy, Frosinone, ...
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• Tsarnaev Body May Have A Taker, Man Offers Plot

  
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  Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body remains unburied , and his family and funeral home alike have thus far been unable to locate a willing cemetery to allow burial of the suspected Boston bomber’s corpse. While Tsarnaev’s body presents a logistical challenge, it also presents a strange quandary regarding assumed risk — ...
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• QUAERITUR: Could a Catholic terrorist be denied funeral and burial?

  
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  From a reader: Father if the Boston bomber was catholic could the church refuse to give him a funeral or burial in catholic cemetary under cannon law? To the first question: Yes, the Church could refuse him a funeral. We read in the Latin Code: canon 1184: §1  “Unless they gave some signs of repentance ...
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• Ancient Roman cemetery found under parking lot

  
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  Hidden beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman cemetery that seemed to show no religious bias. The new discovery, found at the junction of Newarke and Oxford Streets, includes numerous burials and skeletal remains from 13 individuals, both male and female of ...
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• Vampire’s cemeteries

  
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  A long time ago stories of bodies being buried with stakes in their chest and with strange rituals, were considered a tall story or something passed on from the older generations as a horror story to scare their kids.  But now hundreds of bodies have been discovered, proofing that this kinds of “vampire” ...
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• Haunted Cemeteries Book – New Cover, Same Interior

  
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  Later this week, Amazon (and other booksellers) will display a new book cover on my best-selling book, Ghost Hunting in Haunted Cemeteries – A How-To Guide . The cover of the book is new, but the interior is the same, for now.  Later this year, I may update it, but only slightly.  The information in it is ...
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• Ghost Hunting in Cemeteries: How To Prioritize Locations

  
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  Before we get into prioritizing plots, there are a few things to know about ghost hunts in a...
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• Strolling through Riverside Park to Grant’s Tomb

  
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  A few solitary, turn-of-the-century New Yorkers took advantage of the quiet, lovely paths of the upper portion of Riverside Park in this vintage postcard. Grant’s Tomb, opened to much fanfare in 1897, looms ahead. The road beside the Hudson River looks more like the Henry Hudson Parkway, not Riverside Drive, ...
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• Genealogy News Corral, April 15-19

  
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  MyHeritage has releasedversion 7 of its free family tree software, Family Tree Builder . Among the majorhighlights is the ability to synchronize your tree between the software on your computerand your online tree at MyHeritage.com. Youll then be able to access your tree fromyour phone or tablet using the MyHeritage ...
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• Planting Flowers at a Grave

  
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  These days, most cemeteries have strict regulations regarding what types of flowers you can put on a grave and how long they can remain before being removed. This is done not to inconvenience families, but to ensure that the grounds remain beautiful for all the visitors stopping by. Read more on Planting Flowers at ...
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• Behavior Cemetery, Sapelo Island

  
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  If you subscribe to Vanishing Coastal Georgia , you’ll be familiar with Sapelo Island’s Behavior Cemetery, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more information on one of Georgia’s most important African-American landmarks, visit these links: ...
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• ANZAC Commemoration in Linwood Cemetery

  
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  Friends of Linwood Cemetery are holding a special ANZAC Day commemoration of service personnel on Sunday 21 April from 11am to 12.30pm. This is the third year they have staged the ceremony. Linwood Cemetery  is a public cemetery which is not designated as a Services Cemetery, but there are over 310 services ...
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• Historic records of burial to be indexed due to VA and Ancestry.com partnership.

  
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  A good portion of the burials will be from the Civil War, and this indexing project between the Veterans’ Administration and Ancestry.com will provide invaluable documentation for those researching their genealogy and family trees. These handwritten registers of burial from the US Army span the period from 1862 to ...
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