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Featured Articles

• Engraved Stones : Artisans Meet Technology [May 24, 2004, Liz Hekimian-Williams] - Learn how inscriptions on tombstones and memorial markers are made.

• Cemetery Updating Services [June 21, 2002, Steve Paul Johnson] - Debbie Wiczek may be the only person who makes a career out of recording cemeteries.

• Unpuzzling a Cemetery Plot [April 18, 2001, Bertrand K. Macpherson] - Bertrand K. Macpherson investigates the true identities of persons buried at Felder Cemetery, in Louisiana.

• Mystery of Three Oklahoma Tombstones Solved [March 5, 2001, Dennis Muncrief] - Dennis describes his efforts to investigate the original locations of three stolen tombstones.

• A Ghostly Motivation [February 6, 2001, David Podmajersky] - As David recalls, it didn't hit him until later on, something led him to record that cemetery.

• A Short History of Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery [January 20, 2001, Mary Ann Thomas] - A history of this cemetery in Canon City, Colorado, and its interred.

• Cemetery on the Hill [August 23, 2000, Stacy Vellas] - Stacy uses poetry to remember the story of her grandparents and their graves.

• Helping the Living by Caring for the Dead [April 17, 2000, Paul E. Truesdell, Jr.] - Paul follows up on his earlier article, explaining how the local Okinawa VFW is keeping their historic cemetery clean.

• WOW: On the Search of Graves [March 15, 2000, Steve Paul Johnson] - Jim Davenport travels the western United States in search of Woodman of the World gravestones.

• Saving the Fairview Park Cemetery [December 28, 1999, Sandi Carter] - Sandi writes about her efforts to protect the cemetery of her ancestors.

• Restoration of Faught Cemetery [October 10, 1999, Susan Faught] - The Faught Family Cemetery was in ruins when Susan went to visit, now she is embroiled in saving it.

• The International Cemetery of Tomari [August 1, 1999, Paul E. Truesdell, Jr] - Paul writes about this historic cemetery in Okinawa, Japan.