Gene Notes

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Showing posts with label Cemeteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cemeteries. Show all posts

Thursday, June 24, 2010

I LOVE CEMETERY SURPRISES

I love researching at the Lexington Cemetery. I can rarely think of a time when I haven't been surprised by something I wasn't searching for. Mainly this is because the people I find are not listed in the online index or they are entered incorrectly.

Such was the case last week when I found a headstone for William V.A. Kemp and his wife, Fannie Allen Higgins. First, I had no idea whom Fannie had married, so was pleasantly surprised when I discovered their monument in Section I last Friday morning. However, when I went online to find their section and plot, it was incorrectly entered in the database. After emailing them with the correction, I received a notification this morning that the correction had been made. How great is that?

Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Be Still My Heart

I can't believe it. DH and I finally are getting away for a couple days to Lexington, Kentucky. We hope to get in a trip to the cemetery as well as the public Library's Kentucky room. I've had my cemetery book ready and just printed the final copy of my library to-do list. Even though the weather forecast wasn't the greatest for Wednesday, today and tomorrow are supposed to be better, if HOT.

Which reminds me, I need to check the cemetery kit to make sure I have everything. Somehow last year, we left without the some of the key ingredients.

For more on our adventures in Lexington, check out my blog at Generational.

Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes