“How cemeteries and smartphones play a role in family history”

“How cemeteries and smartphones play a role in family history” May 28, 2015

 

Candles for the dead in Finland
In many cultures — this photo is from Finland — candles are lit on certain holidays in order to remember the dead. Such remembrance seems to me a fundamentally important thing — an act of piety — although contemporary society doesn’t value or encourage it much (if at all).
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This is an absolutely wonderful project, and an extraordinarily useful one for anybody, Mormon or not, seeking to do family-historical research:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865629096/How-cemeteries-and-smartphones-play-a-role-in-family-history.html?pg=1

 

Posted from Berlin. Germany

 

 


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