Welcome to Debbie's
Genealogical Library!
Debbie’s Genealogy
Library has been online since 1996. It
started out as an off shoot of my own love of genealogy and the realization
that I too could collect and contribute information to the genealogical community. I started out by walking a couple of
cemeteries near my home, researching the cemetery, and creating lists of the
marked burials. To date, I have created
lists for over 100 cemeteries.
Over the past
decade or so, I have received a great deal of e-mail from all across the
The online versions
of my cemetery lists are scaled down versions of the books I
created. The main difference
between the online version and the paper version is the paper version includes
row numbers and a general map of the cemetery.
The online versions do not include the row numbers or the corresponding
map. I should also mention that the maps
and row numbers were created by me as a general guide to assist in the location
of burials. If you are interested in
paper versions for your library they are available through Debbie's
Bookstore.
For those who
prefer to review paper versions of my cemetery transcription lists, I have
donated copies to several libraries. Of
these, the Minnesota Historical Society in
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Family Member Submissions and Links
to other Sites
If you are
confident that a relative is buried in one of the cemeteries that I have
transcribed, but they are not listed, or you have additional information about
the decedent I will add it to the cemetery transcription list with a notation
that the information was received from a family member. Information that would be best suited for
family member submission would be: date of birth, place of birth, parents names
(only if they are deceased or you are the parent), date of death, place of
death, maiden name, spouse name, date and place of marriage, military rank /
title, etc. The family member
submissions would be listed similar to the following:
Bertha Borka (This was my original
listing)
**Bertha Borka 22 January 1862 - 13 May
1952** This persons information was added with information that I
received from a family member.
This information was not transcribed from the burial monument. (I
left the original listing and added this additional information to the file)
or
**Josephine Dominick,
daughter of Frank Wasnick, wife of Henry Dominick,
born in Scott County, 5 March 1858 – 19 October 1949** This persons information was added with information that I received from a
family member. This information was not
transcribed from the burial monument.
or
**John Chastek,
served during Civil War – Private, Co. E., Hatch’s Independent Battalion
Cavalry, married Anna Pribec 19 March 1868 at Racine,
Wisconsin, 1837 – 1924** This persons
information was added with information
that I received from a family member.
This information was not transcribed from the burial monument.
If you have a
related cemetery link or your own personal genealogical web page with ancestral
information that pertains to a particular cemetery or to a number of decedents
in a particular cemetery, please let me know and I will add a link to that page
from my page. These links are
listed similar to the following:
** For further information about the
**For information about the Hyland family
there is a web site located at: www.nwinfo.net/~lordgarth/hylands.html
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Information about Cemetery Lists
Unless otherwise
stated, the cemetery information that I list is from the burial monuments
only. I do not have access to the
official cemetery records. My
lists are not intended to be official records nor any type of substitute for
any sort of official record.
When I compile
burial monument information, I place the surnames in alphabetical order, rather
than an order based upon where the person was buried. I try to spell information written in a
native language or printed in script style, like names, towns, and places, the
same. I typically transcribe
'born' and 'died' into English.
Dates are listed in
a date month year style. Burial
monuments dates are usually listed month day year.
World War II is
usually listed as World War 2.
When
the monuments are difficult to read, I list the most likely transcription
followed a (?).
Some cemeteries
have sections or plots with a central family monument with only a surname. These family monuments are then surrounded by
individual burial monuments that only list the given names with birth and death
information, but no surname. These
people are usually related, but may or may not share the same
surname. I arbitrarily list these
lone given names with the surname listed on the central surname monument
followed by (?).
If the ? is listed without parenthesis it generally means a
letter(s) or number(s) was/were present on the burial monument, but I was not
able to get a good reading.
In some cases I
list people who may be living. These are
usually cases where the spouse is deceased and the living spouse’s year of
birth is at least 70 years ago. I list
the living spouse in order for researchers to make better genealogical
connections. These are generally listed
with their name and incomplete dates, like: 1917-____ or 22 May
1917-____. There are also a couple
of instances where incomplete dates were listed because this is how I found the
burial monument. This is typically due
to the date of death never being added to the burial monument or the person moved
away or got remarried and whoever handled their estate did not do anything with
the pre-assigned grave.
There may be two
burial monuments for those who served in the military, one personal and one
pertaining to their military service. I
generally list the information separately for each burial monument. I have also noticed that a few of the
military burial monuments have only one date listed. These dates typically coinciding with a war
time period. I suspect these are
actually the person’s date of death, but did not confirm this.
If the
transcription is followed by 'vet *' or 'veteran *' the grave had a bronze
looking veterans star placed near the grave.
These bronze looking veterans’ stars are placed atop a three foot stake.
If the transcription
lists 'G.A.R.' or 'GAR' this refers to a similarly styled bronze looking
veterans star atop a three foot stake.
Some of the burial monuments also list 'G.A.R.' or 'GAR'. I understand 'G.A.R.' or 'GAR' to be an
abbreviation for the Union Civil War veteran’s organization Grand Army of the
Republic.
My cemetery burial
monument transcriptions are solely based upon my readings of the burial
monument. I apologize in advance if I
have transcribed something incorrectly.
My intention has been to provide an accurate list for genealogical
research.
I claim and reserve
any and all rights to the works that I have compiled and created. These pages may be viewed much like a library
book, but I do not approve of any type of reproduction in any format. Persons or organizations desiring to use the
information contained within in my web pages MUST obtain my written consent.