Tombstone Inscriptions of Orange County, Virginia
Tombstone Inscriptions of Orange County, Virginia

Author: Margaret C. Klein

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0806345721

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The work in hand records tombstone inscriptions in 150 cemeteries, thirty-three church cemeteries, and some half-dozen proprietary cemeteries, resulting in the enumeration of perhaps as many as three thousand Orange County inhabitants, giving dates of birth and death and frequently specifying family relationships. To keep the data within practical limits, the author recorded the inscriptions of persons who either died before 1900 or were born before 1850.

Tombstone Inscriptions of King George County, Virginia
Tombstone Inscriptions of King George County, Virginia

Author: Margaret C. Klein

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0806314516

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Dr. Klein has recorded tombstone inscriptions from eighty family cemeteries, twenty-five church cemeteries, and several small proprietary cemeteries in King George County, Virginia. The result is this enumeration, giving the dates of birth and death and frequently specifying the family relationships of approximately 1,500 persons. The recorded inscriptions are limited, by and large, to persons who either died before 1900 or were born before 1850.

Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire
Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire

Author: Mrs. Charles Carpenter Goss

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0806306343

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Mrs. Goss has assembled a list of about 12,500 names found on New Hampshire headstones prior to 1770. Arranged alphabetically by village or town, then, under cemetery, alphabetically by family name, her transcriptions are as complete a record of Colonial New Hampshire gravestone inscriptions as we are ever likely to have.

My Wishes
My Wishes

Author: Benjamin Berkley

Publisher: SphinxLegal

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1572485191

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My Wishes is a practical guide to planning for the inevitable-offering information, sample forms and resource contacts. It provides solutions to the questions all of us think about but do not discuss.

Muhammad's Grave
Muhammad's Grave

Author: Leor Halevi

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0231137435

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In this probing study of death rites, Leor Halevi plays prescriptive texts against material culture, advancing a new way of interpreting the origins of Islam. He shows how religious scholars produced codes of funerary law to create new social patterns in the cities of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and the eastern Mediterranean. They distinguished Islamic from Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian rites; and they changed the way men and women interacted publicly and privately. Each chapter explores a different layer of human interaction, following the movement of the corpse from the deathbed to the grave. Highlighting economic and political factors, as well as key religious and sexual divisions, Halevi forges a fascinating link between the development of funerary rites and the efforts of an emerging religion to carve its own distinct identity. Muhammad's Grave is a groundbreaking history of the rise of Islam and the roots of contemporary Muslim attitudes toward the body and society.

Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors
Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors

Author: William J. Roulston

Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781903688533

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One of the greatest frustrations for generations of genealogical researchers has been that reliable guidance on sources for perhaps the most critical period in the establishment of their family's links with Ulster, the period up to 1800, has proved to be so elusive. Not any more. This book can claim to be the first comprehensive guide for family historians searching for ancestors in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ulster. Whether their ancestors are of English, Scottish, or Gaelic Irish origin, it will be of enormous value to anyone wishing to conduct research in Ulster prior to 1800. A comprehensive range of sources from the period 1600-1800 are identified and explained in very clear terms. Information on the whereabouts of these records and how they may be accessed is also provided. Equally important, there is guidance on how effectively they might be used. The appendices to the book include a full listing of pre-1800 church records for Ulster; a detailed description of nearly 250 collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century estate papers; and a summary breakdown of the sources available from this period for each parish in Ulster.