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Subject: Re: [D-Col] German Cemeteries
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:38:56 EST

In a message dated 3/5/2002 3:25:02 PM Mountain Standard Time,
writes:


> David Roberts wrote:
> >
> > This re-use of graves seems to be the case in Germany, too.
> > I hired a photographer to take some pictures of my "ancestral
> > villages" in the Rhein-Pfalz. He photographed every grave in the
> > Catholic cemetery at Neiderkirchen-bei-Deidesheim w/ the name
> > "Deimel" ... my mother's maiden name. No grave dated earlier than
> > the 1930's; most were from the 1960's to the present.
>
> In 1999 I visited my grandfather's place of birth in Rosenthal in Hesse.
> They directed me to the cemetery but could not find any graves earlier
> than the 1950s. They said the older cemetery was across the street, but
> could not find anything there whatsoever. Who knows what happened. The
> use of land was not an issue as that area of Germany was not that
> populated. But, for the heck of it we videotaped stones of the same
> surname as mine.
>
> John
>

In Berlin, at least, where my ancestors and family lived/live, the family
paid for the gravesite for a certain number of years, after which the grave
place could be re-sold to someone else. It's rare to find ancestors in the
very populated areas.

Drusilla Marshall Van Doren

This thread:

• [D-Col] Addition to Gravedigger by Cor Snabel <>
  • [D-Col] German Cemeteries by "David Roberts" <>
    • Re: [D-Col] German Cemeteries by John and Mari Minke <>

    • Re: [D-Col] German Cemeteries by

  • RE: [D-Col] Addition to Gravedigger by "Protzman, RL (Robert)" <>
    • Re: [D-Col] Addition to Gravedigger by "Peter R Christoph" <>