Do you really, really enjoy doing genealogical research? Finding your own family history and helping others?
Several EWGS members have, in the past, enjoyed doing Cold Case Genealogy Research (CCGR). Not to solve a crime, as is commonly thought of today, but to dig out and learn the story of a particular family as found on a tombstone in a Spokane cemetery.
Interested to do this? We would meet (or go ourselves) to wander a cemetery and pick a tombstone/"story" that seems to shout out to you "LEARN MY STORY!" Or, if you want, I'd share with you a photo that I've taken already.
I'd suggest that we pick a tombstone/story with a life line of mid-1850s to 1930ish. Why? Because there are plenty of resources for checking to ferret out the story.
What sources? (1) visit the cemetery office; (2) our Washington Digital Archives; (3) Find-A-Grave; (4) U.S. Censuses; (5) Ancestry and FamilySearch; (6) newspapers.
Then what? We'd write up the stories for submission to our Digital Digest (or maybe under Tombstone Stories on our website? TBD) thereby paying it forward helping others find their story by publicizing our findings.
Best part of this is that there is NO pressure. If you find answers, great. If not, well, just move on.
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