Who LOVES graveyards???

[Godssong]

My Grandpa used to take my mother to graveyards all the time whilst doing our family history. Because of that, Mom loves going to graveyards, and she passed that love on to me! Anybody else?

 

[Ms.Garnet]

Yes, I love it too. I posted tonight on that subject in the General Hobbies forum (I think it was there)! The poster gave us the name for our hobby , but I can't spell it !

 

[Ms.Garnet]

Yes - Taphofilia - in General Hobbies !

 

[smiledaily]

never thought of it

 

[Spudgrandma]

I said I would consider it, as I have never actually gone for information. My family are all buried out of state, but I have gotten info from the cemetery (others have gone for me.) They are a wealth of information.

 

[KristyAnne]

I like going to graveyards, I've been to quite a few different ones searching for the graves of family members. Although unfortunately a lot of mine don't have a headstone. One of these days I'd like to get some of them headstones, just so they're not forgotten. The graves that are marked I try to tidy up a bit when I visit.

 

[Angeldove97]

I love to visit graveyards to see the history of the people buried there, but since most of my family is either buried in Brazil, Germany, or Russia it doesn't really help me much.

 

[thistle1963]

actually, i dont know if i love them or not.

 

[The Princess Bride]

I dont mind going to them. At least the one some of my grandparents, and aunts and uncles are buried in.

That one is about 150 yrs old and has all the old timy headstones, it is pretty cool, actually.

I go there to think, since there is no one to talk to me.

 

[JoyforJESUS]

I do love the peace of graveyards, often a place to sit and thank God for all those you love. But, as beauitiful as they are I cant go as often as I once didn...because now haveing burried 2 children 2 sister, my parents and grand parents (all are burried all over the country) I get a bit depressed.

 

[rosenherman]

Since I am in Virginia I'm able to go to lots of very very old cemetaries, hundreds of years old, I love seeing the history. I'm near Washington DC so I can go to Arlington National Cemetary and see all the graves of the heroes!

 

[Diane_Windsor]

As a child I used to have a keen interest in cemetaries, though that interest has waned since I have been to several funerals of relatives, however; graveyards are a wealth of information. There is even a cemetary back home in Texas that bears my family name!

 

[Springrain]

You know your a real genealogist when you are having fun at a graveyard. Yes, I have and once it was on the coldest windy day of the year. I was getting ready to travel the next day and I had to go dispite the weather. I was in a small town by the boarder know for its early logging and railway building days, 2,000 miles from home and I found a relative had lived there in 1901. He was a featured character in a historical book about the town. Checked it out on Ancestry.com and found him in the census. Turned out he started a family there and many of them were buried in the cemetery-my realtives! I guess I could hardly believe it until I saw the actual graveyard. So there I was on a terrible cold day in the middle of nowwhere having fun in a graveyard.

Actually, when I was a kid, I lived by a National Cemetery where there were gravestones back to the war of 1812. My friend lived with her father in the caretakers house on the property and on Halloween we had a party which included a treasure hunt in the cemetery.

 

[SoapySam]

Fascinating places. The older the better, so long as the stones are legible.
As cremation becomes more popular, new graveyards are getting scarcer in the UK, which I rather regret.

 

[Diligent]

I will visit cemeteries when possible to gather information for my family tree. Once, I had a relative with me who thought I had gone bananas because I was just TOO excited to be in a cemetery. What can I say....I found an ancestor who was born in 1777 in Ireland!

 

[Meep]

My friend lived with her father in the caretakers house on the property and on Halloween we had a party which included a treasure hunt in the cemetery.

Haha! Sounds like a lot of fun!

I love going for walks in cemeteries because they're usually empty & very peaceful.

 

[skunkfeather]

I could spend an entire day in one, walking, reading - and dreaming, I suppose.

 

[fieldmouse3]

I like them sometimes, if the graveyard is old and has a lot of history.

 

[meebs]

I like graveyards

Im not a geneolagist (sp?) but i do like to read some of the history, plus they are creepy at night, plus i like the atmosphere anytime. Peaceful places.

Erm... too weird for ya?

 

[ladyinwaiting16]

i love going when I am not burying someone there. My dads side of the family is pretty much buried in one local graveyard, but my mothers side is scattered over much of two counties.