Speaking of genealogy, listening to the latest episode of the podcast Footnoting History, “Cemeteries: Washington Park Cemetery and Early 20th-Century Atlanta”:

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or better: footnotinghistory.com

Cemetery and burial research uncovers a lot of things about the past. Interesting to hear about life in Atlanta for black Americans in the middle 20th century, and how that is reflected not just in the cemetery but even some obits were segregated.

Cemeteries have often been a topic of interest in genealogy. A great deal can be learned by just listing at all the people buried together. While morbid, choosing final resting place, and a marker (if any) and what it should say, is often the last statement that one can put out there about oneself, for the future to interpret.