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Cemeteries on Private Land in Tennessee

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Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter has word that there is a bill being sponsored in the Tennessee state legislature that would “require property owners to grant access to graveyards on their property to visitors. The visitors are defined as “family members, descendants and close friends of the deceased persons buried there.” Visits would be legal for the purposes of visits the graves, cemetery maintenance, genealogical research, and for possible future burials.”

Stephen Fry discovers that he is just another ruddy peasant

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Ian Bell has an article in The Herald (UK) covering the hit BBC series ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ and discusses some of the things that Stephen Fry, the English comedian, learned about his family through the course of the show. ‘Who Do You Think You Are?‘ focuses on genealogy and helps people with their family history.

Cemetery Photography Books – Clarke County, Virginia

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This is an older story from August of last year, that I came across recently. The Clarke-Times Courier (Virginia) had an article about a retired couple who photographically documented every cemetery in a county and assembled it into a book. That is something I’d love to do in my retirement years. Never the same thing twice, outside, and your helping out a lot of people.

Are You in Indiana? Do you Have a Railroad Dining Car or a Boxcar You Don’t Need?

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If you are in Indiana, and happen to know of a railroad dining car or a boxcar that is not being used, Denise Jennings-Doyle of Blairsville, the President of Homer-Center Historical Society, would probably like to speak with you. John Como writes in The Indiana Gazette and the historical society is looking for a companion car to their already-existing Caboose Museum in Homer City.