{"id":338,"date":"2005-11-28T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2005-12-18T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T22:40:10","slug":"old-cemeteries-finding-and-maintaining-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2005\/11\/28\/old-cemeteries-finding-and-maintaining-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Cemeteries &#8211; Finding and Maintaining them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Repository, Canton Ohio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/index.php?ID=255184\">has an article<\/a> by Eddie Pritchard about efforts being made to track down and clean up Stark County&#8217;s cemeteries, as well as establishing contacts for each one.  If you are from that area and want to help, you may want to read the article and get in touch with some of those mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cemeteries are of great interest to people for whom genealogy is a hobby. They use cemetery records to find great-grandparents and long-lost aunts and uncles.<\/p>\n<p>Questions from people searching for ancestors convinced employees of the Genealogy Services Department at the Stark County Public Library to start tracking down some of the area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out-of-the-way cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Pfendler hoped to find a contact person for each cemetery. But many folks ask for directions to cemeteries, so she decided to spend Sunday afternoons tracking down the locations. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take long for Lauren Landis, the department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manager, and Marianne Marcussen to join on the searches.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A lot of this is detective work,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Marcussen said of the cemetery searches.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like putting a puzzle together,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pfendler said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Repository, Canton Ohio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/index.php?ID=255184\">has an article<\/a> by Eddie Pritchard about efforts being made to track down and clean up Stark County&#8217;s cemeteries, as well as establishing contacts for each one.  If you are from that area and want to help, you may want to read the article and get in touch with some of those mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}