Tombstone Toolkit         June 2005 issue                 Ethnic Toolkits Web Exclusive Forms Bookstore Soundex Code Generator Article Search Writing Workshops Newsletter		Tombstone Toolkit Discover the meanings of symbols used on tombstones with the resources listed below. Web Sites The Association for Gravestone Studies www.gravestonestudies.org Cemetery Symbolism: A Wary Glossary www.alsirat.com/symbols/symbols1.html Cemetery Symbols castlescribe.hispeed.com/fam/cemeterysymbols.html Cemetery Symbols Found in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY ah.bfn.org/a/forestl/symbols From Beyond the Grave: Cemetery Symbols www.prairieghosts.com/grave_symbols.html Glossary of Symbols and Terms for Studying Cemeteries www.history.org/history/teaching/glossary2.cfm Glossary of Victorian Cemetery Symbolism www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/pages/Cem_Symbolism.htm Saving Graves www.savinggraves.com Tombstone Art and Symbols www.tales.ndirect.co.uk/A_ZINDEX.HTML Books Early American Gravestone Art in Photographs by Francis Y. Duval (Dover Publications, out of print) Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815 by Allan L. Ludwig (Wesleyan University Press, $34.95) Gravestones of Early New England, and the Men Who Made Them, 1653-1800 by Harriette Merrifield Forbes (Pyne Press, out of print) Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartland by John Gary Brown (University Press of Kansas, $39.95) Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, $24.95) To read our in-depth article about cracking tombstone codes, see the June 2005 Family Tree Magazine.

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