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Burying Grounds and Gravestones: The history behind our outdoor museums

Join Ruth Brown from theConnecticut Gravestone Network as she discusses old burying grounds and gravestones. 
The presentation will start with some early burying ground basics: Just what are you looking at? What’s missing? What are the boundaries? How many graves? Stones in rows and facing which direction? All things that every family genealogist and historian with an interest in old cemeteries should know. Then Ruth will proceed to the gravestones themselves to discuss who may have carved them, how to read illegible inscriptions and can you safely clean colonial stones (with before and after photos) along with some explanations on gravestone symbolism. Ruth will also share some interesting stories from her years of working in old burying grounds. Bring your curiosity and questions to this fun talk about the history in our outdoor museums. You will not look at an old burying ground the same after this presentation.

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