Norman Gasbarro | March 3, 2011
In the first post about the Find A Grave site, a statement was made about those contributors to the site who are very proactive about warning people who use the site about theft of their photographs. The understanding of these individual is that any one who uses a photograph of theirs, under any conditions and […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 2, 2011
In yesterday’s post, examples were given on how to use the Find A Grave web site to locate individual graves of Civil War soldiers. In the post today, examples will be given on how to locate cemeteries in the area covered by this Civil War Research Project. The Find A Grave site is an excellent […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 1, 2011
One resources which is especially helpful in locating graves of Civil War soldiers is the web site “Find A Grave.” The site was created in 1995 by Jim Tipton, who states, “I created the Find A Grave website because I could not find an existing site that catered to my hobby of visiting the graves […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 16, 2011
On the corner of Broad and Bender Streets within the Borough of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, lies one of the oldest cemeteries in the Lykens Valley area. This cemetery has been known by various names over the years. The cemetery originally belonged to the Salem Lutheran and Reformed Church, which was built on that site […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 9, 2010
A church building and cemetery may be found on north Center Street in Gratz that looks much as it did in the Civil War period, 1861-1865. From a history of the Simeon United Lutheran Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, we read the following: A small number of Lutheran and Reformed people united in the year […]
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