graveyard Archives - Megan Smolenyak https://megansmolenyak.com/tag/graveyard/ genealogical adventurer & storyteller Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:44:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Genealogy Roundup, August 6 https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-august-6-2025/ https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-august-6-2025/#respond Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:44:12 +0000 https://megansmolenyak.com/?p=164370 In this week’s roundup, a Midwesterner’s link to royal history, a Genealogy Classic on heritage travel, a dubious online tool for cold case investigations, and more!

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]]> Queen Chapel Independent Methodist Church in Kingston, GA – the church whose graveyard holds the memorial of Melvin(i)a Shields, great-great-great-grandmother of Michelle Obama – has incurred some weather-based damage that insurance won’t cover and needs help making repairs. If, by any chance, you’re in a position to assist, I would be very grateful if you would consider making a modest donation (view appeal). Thank you! 🙏

Total Treecall – What are they thinking?! 😬

Genealogy Classic: Getting the Most from Your Genealogy Trips to Europe – Another one of my Genealogy Classics articles. This one is about planning family research/reunion trips in Europe, and though it’s about 20 years old, almost all of it still applies!

Queen Victoria, her ‘secret love child’ and me – 👀 #genealogy (The article is more reasonable than the headline suggests.)

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]]> https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-august-6-2025/feed/ 0 Genealogy Roundup, February 21 https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-february-21/ https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-february-21/#respond Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:11:50 +0000 http://www.megansmolenyak.com/?p=159046 In this week's Roundup: What family members shared in obituaries for deceased loved ones who perhaps hadn't spent their lives in the most aboveboard way, saving a graveyard from development, a new resource for genealogical research, and more...

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]]> Obituaries for thieves

A man has bought an entire graveyard to stop anyone building on top of his ancestors

Ode to an Obituary Writer, a Dying Breed

Out On a Limb: Digitized records a ‘treasure trove of information’ – Terrific genealogy resource for those with Pennsylvania Catholic heritage – esp. Wilkes-Barre area, but no, it’s not online

Why Pharrell Almost Didn’t Exist – Hint: Liberia and the Nat Turner Rebellion played a role

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