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Subject: Dowsing for graves!
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:07:00 EST


Online I met a wonderful witty man with a really wild hobby -- grave dowsing!

With two little metal rods or even a bent coat hanger, he can workout the
dimensions of a grave, and tell if it is a man or a woman.

And I thought, how wonderful to be able to do this, especially in those little
cemeteries way out there in someone's north pasture where all the gravestones
are knocked down. I have one of those not far from me, and we have been trying
to figure out how many graves are there and whose they may be. In my family
plot, in a little country church cemetery, there are a couple of "mystery"
graves that have us all bamboozled, and dowsing might shed a little bit more
light on them too.

So I visited with Mr. Grantham and he told me all about how he does what he
does, and why it works (he doesn't know!) and I wrote about it for the current
issue of the Signal, the biweekly newsletter of the US Internet Genealogical
Society.

You can read it at http://www.usigs.org/signal/signal.htm

<A HREF="http://www.usigs.org/signal/signal.htm">Click here: USIGS SIGNAL</A>

I hope you take a look. And P.S. Talking about cemeteries -- In the same
issue, Pam Reitsch tells how a Boy Scout in her area took over the project of
cleaning up and improving an old cemetery. It is worth considering as an
Eagle Award project in your area.
love
joan

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