Family History Touring

Family holds reunion the old-fashioned way: at the cemetery

Gladys Pittman fretted because there weren’t more folks waiting to dig into a holiday picnic. In reality, they were surrounded by dozens more relatives -...

One Foot in the Grave

While attending a family reunion in Missouri, we took an excursion to visit a small family cemetery near Webb City. Our host, Aunt Esther, reminisced...

Honoring a Revolutionary War soldier

For more than 175 years, Revolutionary War veteran William Ballenger's grave was a fieldstone with crude engravings. His descendant Margaret Currie and her husband, Randy,...

Cemetery Access Problematic

Visiting cemeteries is not always easy. The McCoys (of Hatfield and McCoy fame) cemetery is on private land and not available to family. The McCoys...

Family saves and preserves cemetery

The Fergus/Related Families “Gathering” place was chosen because of the cemetery at Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee. We wanted to do restorative work and call attention...

Small Cemeteries

I grew up in a small town in Western Kentucky, where many small cemeteries sprinkle the region. They’re not quite family cemeteries, but small, private...

Military Cemetery Services

Memorial Day programs are held at each American Battle Monuments Commission Cemetery. Each gravesite is decorated with the US flag and that of the host...

Merge amid the annals of history by Jacky Runice

Reunions are about nothing if they’re not about history. They’re about family trees that took root overseas or here in the US and have grown,...

Be WOWed by Wisconsin by Edith Wagner

With the enthusiastic assist of a character named “Flat Jack,” the Wausau/Central Wisconsin Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) can help arrange group tours of Wausau-area...

Civil Rights icon finds a new home

The bus in which civil rights activist Rosa Parks was riding when she refused to give up her seat to a white man is on...