Posts Tagged: Cemeteries

52 Ancestors – # 5: General Sherman Bosseller Becomes Sherman Volser

Parents sometimes bestow unusual names on their children, and in some cases the children change or de-emphasize those unusual names later in life. One such example is General Sherman Bosseller, who was born in November 1864, when General William Tecumseh Sherman was conducting the Civil War campaign known as Sherman’s March to the Sea. General

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Ancestry.com Purchases Find A Grave

The following was an important announcement by Ancestory.com made on 30 Sep 2013: We are pleased to announce that Ancestry.com LLC has acquired Find A Grave, Inc., the leading online cemetery database. With over 100 million memorials and 75 million photos, Find A Grave has amassed an unparalleled collection of burial information. Over the past

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