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How to recover information from a well weathered limestone tombstone?
The technique you are looking for is off-camera flash. This means a separate flash unit that you can trigger remotely (usually wirelessly, nowadays).
By directing the light across the stone at an ...
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Seeking list of Jewish Cemeteries in the USA
Your best bet is to check the International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies: IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project.
On their United States Page, they have almost 1400 Jewish burial ...
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Index for Abney Park Cemetery London UK?
The burials at Abney Park Cemetery have indeed been indexed, and you can view the database on the website of the Abney Park Cemetery Indexing Project, which is hosted on Rootsweb.
Note that the ...
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Christian Orthodox Cemeteries in Philadelphia
Have you seen Brief History of St. John Chrysostom Albanian Orthodox Church & SS. Peter and Paul Church, Uniondale PA? Dedicated church cemeteries seem to have been the norm, but they also used ...
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Seeking list of Jewish Cemeteries in the USA
Another possibility is to look at the list of members of the Jewish Cemetery Association of North America:
https://www.jcana.org/members/all-members
Some of the members are cemeteries, and some are ...
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Did UK Poor Houses pay for pauper's graves?
The Poor House system in Ireland was run on similar lines to the English model and I have some experience of it. In Ireland the Poor House would pay for a burial for someone whose family didn’t or ...
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Seeking list of Jewish Cemeteries in the USA
OpenStreetMap data (OSM) is interesting source of data - contains also cemeteries from all over the world - including position and description. Unfortunately it is quite hard to extract from the OSM ...
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Christian Orthodox Cemeteries in Philadelphia
Anesti Zoto, founding member of St. John Chrysostom had his funeral there and was buried in Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, according to his obituary found in the July 24, 1993 issue of Philadelphia ...
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Uncovering residents of cemetery when headstones are losing legibility?
Once you have the weeds out of the way, you can often take a legible photo of a stone that appears too worn to read using off-camera flash. See this question and answer including some before and after ...
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Does "in the 70th year of her life" mean she was 69?
This is not a complete answer to your question but may provide another data point for you to consider. It is one where the same phrase is used and where the birth date seems to be known.
My 3rd ...
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