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elcome to the Brown Family Club's family cemetery records, part of our History section devoted to cemetery tombstone inscriptions of all Brown family relatives, including their descendants. It is sponsored by the Brown Family Club, a national family club for all descendants of the many different Brown families in America.We hope you will help in this project to gather and preserve records of our family burials online. If you have cemetery tombstone information on relatives, please send this to us, both to preserve in the Family Library and to post here. Please take time to visit the cemeteries where your relatives are buried and copy down the info on their tombstones. Do not limit this just to your immediate family--include ALL the Browns and descendants in the cemetery, even if you do not know "who" they are. Read the guidelines below about what to include.
Since our space is limited, we cannot put all the cemetery records online at the same time. The information will probably be changed every so often.
This site is limited solely to cemetery records. For those unfamiliar with family history, this means one of two things -- only the information on a tombstone or, in the case of an unmarked grave, information about the relative that you know of and can prove with other sources and the certainty they are buried in a particular cemetery.
The information you send in should be only the words written on a grave stone. Write down everything IF it is given on the tombstone. If the grave has a tombstone, do NOT add information that is not inscribed on the the grave, even if you are personally aware of the facts. These are cemetery records only.
For unmarked graves, the rule of thumb is different--you can add information but only basic info that you are absolutely sure of -- the relative's full name and their dates of birth and death. Make sure of the dates through some type of record. Do not send in info for someone that you do not know where they are buried and no idea of birth and death dates.
Be sure and give the name of the cemetery if known and its location, including the county. If it is a rural area, give the approximate distance to the nearest town.
Try to keep your cemetery records in the following format for easier reading. List the name and dates on the first line. Then give any inscriptions on the line below that. List ONLY the info on the tombstones as such.
For unmarked graves -- place all info within parentheses [ - ] and you can add facts that you are positive of in a line below, such as "wife of" -- also within parentheses. In a few cases, you will find info on a tomb that is also in parentheses. If so, then use the common type ( - ) for this and info you have added only with the squared parentheses [ - ]. The parentheses lets the reader know that this is info that has been added by a researcher or cemetery record compiler.
Give the family name first in all capital letters, then the given names next, followed by the dates on the tombstone of birth and death, all on one line; list any other info on the grave on a line below this. Here is an example:
BROWN, Joseph William 15 June, 1842 10 Mar., 1910
Beloved husband of Mary
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