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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 11h

Image and caption by my grandfather, dated 1957: Martyrs' #Cemetery, also known as Sidi Al Khattab Cemetery, is situated near the Kasbah in Rabat, #Morocco, overlooking the #Atlantic #Ocean. Grandpa was stationed near there in the mid-1950s.

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Sidi Al Khattab Cemetery in 1957. The Atlantic Ocean is in the background—an already crowded graveyard with a few larger white buildings closer to the beach.

Caption handwritten in red: "Graveyard by the sea at Rabat. The white buildings are tombs."

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 12h

The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia tried to block it, but a new museum will open on December 2 at Stone Mountain to tell the story of the largest Confederate monument in the world. The museum will explore the monument and its connection to white supremacy. 🗃️ www.reuters.com/world/us/bat...

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Steve Little @digitalarchivst.bsky.social · 5d

The Coalition for Responsible AI in #Genealogy has released its new official position statement: "Protecting Trust in Historical Images."

While AI "photo restoration" tools can be helpful, they also risk altering or fabricating features, misleading researchers. Link and more ►

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Huddersfield Exposed @huddersfield.exposed · 7d

There will certainly be more local names to add to this list as research continues, but this page now shows the chronology of deaths during the Second World War.
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Chronology of World War Two Casualties - Huddersfield Exposed: Exploring the History of the Huddersfield Area

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 12d

This week @jelaniya.bsky.social drops in to talk about Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's film, and how the man is remembered in black communities. Find the new episode of Reckoning with Jason Herbert and Jelani's new book below.

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 12d

If interested, I posted Neoma's death certificate and obituary at the Southern Graves blog - tinyurl.com/mscv3srz

Tuberculosis Took Neoma McCamish at Age Seventeen

She was just four months shy of her eighteenth birthday. In continuing to research the names and dates on the gravestones of those buried in...

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 12d

Neoma McCamish d. at age 17, & Pulmonary Tuberculosis was the cause. Hers is at least the 4th case I've found while researching the names & dates on the stones at Maddux Cemetery in Tennessee's Harrison Bay State Park. TB was the # 1 cause of death in TN in 1923. By 1943, it had only fallen to # 3.

Flat granite grave marker for Neoma McCamish (1916-1934). Surrounded by brown leaves.

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 12d

...erroneously... 🤦‍♀️

Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 12d

#31DaysofGraves 30: Color

Often erroniously transcribed as M. Argent Davis, it's actually Mrs. Argent Davis (1830-1872). Might be a bit easier to see with colors inverted?

The landscape image also features colors, all from Locust Grove City #Cemetery in Henry County, #Georgia.

Landscape of Locust Grove City Cemetery with an American flag centered in the background, behind a fall-colored treeline. Gravestones of granite and marble, along with colorful flowers on many of them, are in the foreground.

Broken tablet gravestone for Mrs. Argent Davis -- a kind friend and devoted mother. The top half with the inscription is on the ground, leaning against the bottom half. The top half is "typical" stone color, while the bottom half is an orange, "Georgia clay" color.

Close-up image of the "MRS." portion of the inscription. Colors are inverted, so the engraved letters are now largely lighter than the background.

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Family Tree Magazine @familytreemag.bsky.social · 12d

Check out this new article if you want to do the same: familytreemagazine.com/cemeteries/h... #genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 13d

It's #WhiskersWednesday, and Tabitha is hard at work -- napping, but with one paw on the laptop at all times. 🐈‍⬛🐾💻

Close-up of the face of a sleeping kitten. One of her front paws is resting on my laptop computer.

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 13d

#31DaysofGraves 29: Occupation

Franklin Green Adamson (1875-1922) was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, "North America’s oldest rail labor union."

Pics taken back in 2009 at Rose Hill #Cemetery in Macon, Bibb County, #Georgia.

#blet #graveledger #ledgergravemarker

Upper portion of a granite grave ledger. Transcription:

Franklin Green Adamson
BLE
Sept 4, 1875
May 1, 1922
He Loved to Make Others Happy

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 14d

You're not kidding! 🫣

CathyLoweBerkshire @cathylowe.bsky.social · 15d

#31DaysOfGraves - Column

Two columns flank this monument in Gloucester Cathedral. The effigy is alarmingly vivid!

Alderman John Jones, Mayor of Gloucester, d 1630, but seems to sit perpetually at his desk, surrounded by stacks of papers that surely need properly filing! @stroudstory.bsky.social

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 14d

I've seen plenty of drapings, but never the tie. Thanks for sharing!

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 14d

Really like the benches, too.

FeatsDontFailMeNow @eddielast.bsky.social · 14d

#31DaysOfGraves #Columns #Cemetery

A family mausoleum with 4 columns decorating the front and a double door with a green patina. There are 2 benches facing each other in front with faux tree trunk frames. Above the doors it says 1927 and P. Razzano and In Memory Of Our Son.

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 14d

Such an atmospheric setting. 💚

Ranga Kullenga @rakulle.bsky.social · 14d

Tag 28: Säule Column
auf dem alten Friedhof in Salzmünde
www.hugolienchen.de/2022/09/frie...
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#31DaysOfGraves

Ruinen mit Säulen und Skulpturen im vordergrund ein rostiger Zaun

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 14d

#31DaysofGraves 28: Column

Stately monuments with columns at the corners for 3 members of the Lanier #family: Richard (1830-1907), Mary (1832-1917), and their daughter Cassa (1856-1916). Pic taken on a rainy February day in 2013 at Rosemary Church #Cemetery in Metter, Candler County, #Georgia.

Cemetery scene focusing on two significant, stately monuments to members of the Lanier family. Each has a large cap with a decorative piece underneath. The inscription portion (die, tablet) is solid, bordered by columns on each corner, front and back. All on a 2-step base.

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 15d

Second is a scene from Evergreen #Cemetery in Perry, Houston County, #Georgia. Taken back in the early #Spring of 2008, the #trees were just drenched in #moss. I found it beautiful, though that much might've indicated poor tree health? (Not an #arborist.) / 2 of 2

#cemeteryphotography #mossytrees

A landscape scene of a cemetery with two large trees covered in moss.

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 15d

#31DaysofGraves 27: #Tree

This one I absolutely had to do 2 ways -- I adore #trees.

First is a delightful #weeping #willow with #ivy climbing up its trunk -- symbols of immortality. Found on an obelisk in an old, small family cemetery surrounded by a rock wall in Bleckley County, Georgia. / 1 of 2

Close-up of a weeping willow with very detailed hanging leaves and ivy climbing up the trunk.

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 16d

Love. 💜

Turnstone Genealogy - Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social · 16d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 26: Figure
As the nights draw in, I like to walk up to the top of #RutherglenCemetery to watch the sun set. One figure stands out against the skies over Glasgow. I've photographed her many times. Here she is with crescent moon and Venus. Her name is Minnie.

Grave monument of Minnie Walker, beloved daughter of Mary and Peter Walker, who died on 15 April 1915, aged 10. A stone figure of a young girl holding out a flower in her right hand as if she is about to let it fall. Photographed against a darkening sky, with the hazy orange glow of sunset on the horizon, a crescent moon and Venus rising above.

Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 16d

#31DaysofGraves 26: Figure

A female #mourning figure tops the #gravestone for Mattie (1877-1911), wife of B. F. Sheppard, at Sunnyside #Cemetery in Cordele, Crisp County, #Georgia.

#cemeteryphotography #mourningfigure #southerngraves

Full view of female mourning figure atop the gravestone for Mattie Sheppard (1877-1911). She has shoulder-length hair, holds a long-stemmed flower in her left hand, and stands next to a planter or large vase.

Close-up of the female mourning figure's left hand and long-stemmed flower.

Close-up of upper portion of the mourning figure. Behind her is a blue sky with white, wispy clouds.

Close-up of the mourning figure's face, with the blue sky as a background.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 16d

#31DaysofGraves Day 26: Figure
Reclining figure of lady with small baby.
The Barlow memorial, Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford.

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Norma Explores @normaexplores.bsky.social · 17d

Day 25 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'graveside ornament'

I wanted to share this wonderful thing I found earlier this year. Every war grave has been marked with a Tommy silhouette, even the ones without a headstone. It really highlighted just how many WW1 & WW2 casualties lay here ⬇️⬇️

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 17d

My first #caturday! Say hello to Tabitha -

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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃 @stitchingstephanie.bsky.social · 17d

🙋 Right there with ya!

Family Tree Magazine @familytreemag.bsky.social · 18d

Sometimes I think about how so many of my ancestors were farmers and I can't even remember to water basil. #genealogy #FamilyHistory

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