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Tarver-Gen: Obituaries, Gravestones & Tributes
 Collecting obituaries and surveying & photographing cemeteries for Tarver-Gen are two of my ongoing projects ~ so this section is a growing collection.
I have a file of obituaries clipped throughout the years that are not yet scanned. Looking at tombstones requires extensive traveling. I photographed quite a few cemeteries from Virginia (including the Arlington National Cemetery) to California, before I discovered the digital camera. I still have stacks of photos to scan for the Tarver-Gen Web site, but am progressing. My mother, Adina Tarver Cirilo, has been trememendous assistance transcribing the incriptions for these surveys. You'll see her in an occasional photograph peering over a gravestone. That's her in the photgraph above, in Old Catahoula Church Cemetery - the oldest cemetery in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. Visit her Web page to read more about her family.
I also have a number of cemetery surveys that include ALL of the gravestones at the time of the survey, some without photos. As time permits, these too will go online. Many thanks to my mother (Adina Tarver Cirilo), Bessie Ferrell, and Carroll Tarver for their gifts of transcriptions. My inclination for future surveys is to photograph the complete cemetery, especially where the cemeteries are small.
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- The Obituary Times - Transcribed obituaries for TARVER and collateral lines. Transcribed from newspapers and funeral programs. Includes some reprints from earlier publications. I am updating the obits as time permits with genealogical notes.
- Obituaries Message Board - Browse posted obituaries, post your own. Obits are now being posted here.
- The Cemetery Grounds - State and county level. Cemetery surveys, many with photos of gravestones (see notes above). Aids for accomplishing tombstone genealogy. Links to obits, where available.
- Memorial Gardens - Memorials and tributes to family members who are deceased. Not your standard genealogy, but genealogical notes creep in, and it gives a human touch to the often dry facts of a genealogical narrative.
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