A lisiting of online resources that any taphophile will find useful or interesting.
The Association of Graveyard Rabbits - is an active blog that holds a wealth of information and is a haven for any lonely graveyard rabbit that happened to stray from amongst the graves and needs to find their way back to the "gloom and glen." www.thegraveyardrabbit.com
Chicora Foundation, Cemetery Preservation - has some wonderful resources regarding cemeteries that can be used by the individual as readily as they can be used by a group. www.chicora.org/cemetery-preservation.html
CSI: Cemetery Scene Investigation - is a website by a group of students that learned the importance of cemeteries through using current technologies to explore cemeteries. Provides useful information about surveying a cemetery and reading about the students experiences is enjoyable. connections.smsd.org/csi/
The Farber Gravestone Collection - an unusual resource containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. www.davidrumsey.com/farber/
Find A Grave - a free resource for finding the final resting places of famous folks, friends and family members. With millions of names, it's an invaluable tool for genealogist and history buffs. Find A Grave memorials are rich with content, including dates, photos and bios. www.findagrave.com
Names in Stone - is a dynamic online mapping website and program that allows people to build maps of burial grounds online and have it accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. All my cemeteries will eventually find their way onto this wonderful site. www.namesinstone.com
Calculate duration between two dates - this service calculates the duration, counting the day count and the number of days, months and years between two dates. Among other things, it can be used find how many days old you are and the weekday you were born. timeanddate.com
