please provide the information on klausdorf kreis sold in cemetery in Klausdorf now in Poland near town of Berlinek, Russian tanks rolled over the cemetery obliterating all of the headstones.
Is there a place the records of who was buried there?
please provide the information on klausdorf kreis sold in cemetery in Klausdorf now in Poland near town of Berlinek, Russian tanks rolled over the cemetery obliterating all of the headstones.
Is there a place the records of who was buried there?
This work you are doing is so important to everyone and you deserve all the thanks from everyone who is looking for relatives but can’t get to the cemetery. When you return to the states can you cover Calvary Cemetery in Woodside NY? It’s a big one.
So wonderful to hear about this couple’s desire and achievements in a field that so many are not interested in at all! Congratulations also on the achievements of cycling for so much of your journey – may you both have everlasting good health and happiness. I just know so, so many will thank you for your rewarding work.
What they are doing is really great. The photographs of the headstones will help immensely in genealogical research as well as to help memorialize deceased loved ones. I hope they are able to cover Germany and preserve headstones there for posterity’s sake. Unfortunately, normally gravesites are leased for 20-25 years after which they may be renewed or usually revert to the cemetery owner (church or town) and are reused. This was sadly the case of my mother’s gravesite of which I have no pictures. The ones I took in the days of roll film did not turn out.
I think it’s wonderful what Sabrina and Michael are doing, it will benefit so many people. I pray they will have good health and God’s speed as they travel.
Can you imagine if in each city throughout the US you find 2 couples who are willing to take their camera….walk through the grave yards and take pics…..? Wow.. What a fun for a couple to take one grave yard a year and then solicit their friends to do the same.
What if 2 couples in one city take a month each year and take pics of the grave markers and then send them to myheritage?
Pay for the mileage might be all that is needed to get people snapping pics.
I love it. It is a great idea. As others have noted, not everyone is in a position to travel to the graves of their ancestors but they are still very interested in seeing where they were laid to rest. This appraoch is great. If everyone in the world just went to their local graveyards one weekend and photographed all the graves there would be a permanent digital record of all the graves in the world. That in itself is an amazing thought. There are a lot of amazing people and I believe it could happen! It would be a legacy to all our children and their children too!
This is a worthy project. The many cemeteries in the world are a great documentation and museum of the ancestors history. This information is so valuable because thausands of Genealogists can not go to every cemetery but rely on the grave stones. My comliment to Sabrina Rowe and Michael Kerr.
I have recently retired from teaching Social Studies for 29 years and been looking for some worthwhile project to work on. This sounds like it is right up my alley. I am going to try and get more information on how I might contribute my time and camera to this project.
I had given up on finding photos of Oola Cemetery in Ireland(Tipperary?),but I’ll certainly be on the lookout for any Ryans after reading about this gigantic effort by two dedicated people.
Super! My friend and I have done some bicycling in the Netherlands and Belgium . . . maybe next time we could take in a couple cemeteries! Great idea, and happy cycling to Sabrina and Michael!!
This is wonderful. Hope you get to Germany.
What an amazing resource this will be, both for genealogy and history.
Am interested in Prague area where Fencl’s came from;
Or Bohemia as never knew which was what in those times;
Civice #15 Bohemia is mentioned a lot.
Robice,Bohemia also.
Nadryb House,Bohemia.
Any info would be nice, as I’m getting old and will be lost
if I don’t find it.
Thanks
Otis
message for Peter Phelan. Oola Cemetary in Co Limerick is now on as are a lot of Irish graves with photographs. Also for the ones not on Historic graves just type in the name as a lot more have been done and put on the internet.
Good luck with your research.
Cristin ni Muirgheasa.
Wonderful work! Thank you. The very best of luck to you both.
This is such a great project. It’s so interesting to find out where our ancestors came from. We could all be related! lol. My cousin who lives in the Netherlands and I from Australia, are planning a few days in Poland next year. We already know that the grave stones have been destroyed, but we hope to speak to local parish priests in the Broitz surrounds, where our family apparently came from. Broitz is in Pomerania, Poland. Anyone who can offer any help, as in planning to do the same thing, please let us or My Heritage know if possible.
Hi. This is a comment for Frankie Klen, who commented on this post on October 8th saying that he would wish if someone could also get to Slovakia, Dolny Kubin. I actually live in Slovakia /not Dony Kubin area/, but if you look up Sedliacka Dubova´s website there is a virtual cemetery there where you could possbily find some data. I am ready to help you with the language or can contact myself the local authorities…. would be great if you could fulfill your expectations.
Hello!
if someone is looking for their ancestors with the surname Bundzsák or Bundzak, I’m ready to help you in Serbia and in Hungary.I would like if anybody just helped me about this surname in Hungary and from around the world .Everybody with that surname, please write for me!Thank you.Marta Kočić Bundzsák
This message is in response to Andrea who left a response to my post on October 29. It would be great if you know just who to contact in Sedliacka Dubova about who is buried in what cemetery. Their web site only had a couple names in their cemetery list that went back to 1982 and I need burial from around 1900 and before.
An amazing couple doing amazing work!… they are wonderful photographers too.
It would be very interesting to have a blog by these folks as to the details of doing their job; the details, best camera, recorders, etc, etc. I have listings of the locations of all the cemeteries I can find in the California Gold country. It seems to be a never ending job, and of course all of the burial sites can never be known.
Thank you for all the wonderful comments! We’re still traveling but have had to take a break for a while because of our location but as soon as location allows we’ll be back out there. It’s really a gift to read that there is so much support for this project.
This is such a wonderful thing this couple is doing and also those who joined in. I am having trouble finding information about my mother’s side of the family. Some came to the US but returned to Italy. So most of the information has to come from there. Having the possibility of finding grave sites would be great. Thank you so much!
Frankie Klen
October 8, 2014
I think, what this couple is doing is great. Many people, including myself, are unable to travel to Europe to visit the graves of loved ones. I just hope that they or someone else goes to Sedliacka Dubova, Dolny Kubin, Slovakia, which is were my family is from and have been in the town for over 200 years.