Nothing like death to liven up a trip

If you're going to Europe, visit a cemetery — they're authentic, artsy and oozing with history.

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Roman-era couple held hands for 1,500 years

The skeletal remains of a Roman-era couple reveal the pair has been holding hands for 1,500 years. Italian archaeologists say the man and woman were buried at the same time between the 5th and 6th century A.D. in central-northern Italy. Wearing a bronze ring, the woman is positioned so she appears to be gazing at her male partner.

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Maple Leaf Gardens' time capsule found

Crews working on the reconstruction of Toronto's iconic Maple Leaf Gardens have found something that just might be a historical treasure — but exactly what it is remains a mystery.

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Gramps Was A Fish

Was just reading a news report about how are ancestors were fish. Researchers are able to paint a picture of what this fish ancestor would have looked like. It would likely have been a predatory marine fish with good eyesight, jaws and sharp teeth. I guess this is genealogy to the extreme. How weird is it to think that if we could take our family tree back far enough we would start adding fish. My GGGGGGGGG bla bla bla Grand Father was a fish. It just kind of blows my mind to even think about it.

Think I will go Red Lobster for dinner.

Prehistoric Teen Girl's Grave Found Near Henge

Four to five thousand years ago, a wealthy teenage girl was laid to rest in a grave at what archaeologists believe is a newly found henge in Kent, England.

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Athen’s First Cemetery At Risk Of Destruction

The First Cemetery of Athens in Greece, which is the oldest cemetery in the city, is in need of preservation due to neglect.

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Mausoleum Makeover

One of South Dakota's founding fathers is resting much more comfortably now following an extreme mausoleum makeover.

Workers have breathed new life into the R.F. Pettigrew family plot located in Sioux Falls. The restoration team saved the Pettigrew tomb from certain doom.

Nestled on a rolling hill in the heart of Woodlawn Cemetery is the final resting place of Richard Pettigrew. The remains of South Dakota's first U.S. senator, along with other Pettigrew family members, are kept inside this stately mausoleum fashioned after an ancient Greek temple; a century-old relic of Victorian-era excess.

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Ancestry 15 days of free databases

Ancestry is having 15 days of free databases and daily prizes in sweepstakes draws.

"Starting October 1, Ancestry.com will feature a free collection each day for 15 days. And you'll get FREE access to select collections from around the world thru October 15. "

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Zombie Graveyard Found In Ireland

Archaeologists have unearthed a 'zombie' graveyard in Co Roscommon dating from the 8th Century.

The gruesome discovery was made by a team from the Institute of Technology Sligo, which discovered that skeletons were interred with large rocks placed in their mouths to prevent them rising from the dead at a historic site overlooking Lough Key, Co Roscommon.

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Soldiers graves from the War of 1812 in Chatham-Kent

Researchers and history buffs are hoping two days of ground sweeping this week in a Chatham-Kent, Ont., park will locate the graves of four soldiers from the War of 1812.

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Town Seeks To Ban Backyard Burials

When a loved one is laid to rest, it might be a surprise that they won't necessarily be buried in a cemetery.

In Colorado, a burial can practically take place anywhere in the state, as long as it's not federal land.

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Cemetery Walk Cochrane Catholic Cemetery: Video 4

Cemetery Walk Cochrane Catholic Cemetery Video 4

Ned Kelly's remains found in mass grave

The headless skeleton of infamous bushranger Ned Kelly has been found and identified more than 130 years after his execution in the Old Melbourne Gaol.

That a group of scientists could identify the body of a man who was executed more than 130 years ago, moved and buried in a haphazard fashion among 33 other prisoners, most of whom are not identified, is amazing," Victoria Attorney General Robert Clark said in a statement.

Ned Kelly was born in 1855 in Beveridge Austrailia. The eldest son of eight children to John 'Red' Kelly and Ellen Quinn.

His criminal life started early. Arrested first at the age of 14 for assaulting a Chinese man. In 1878 his mother was arrested and sentenced to three years' imprisonment for her part in an attempted murder. So Ned and his brother Dan, along with 2 friends went into hiding from police. The Kelly Gang as it was soon to be known ambushed a group of police on their trail in Stringybark Creek, killing three of them.

The Kelly gang spent the next 2 years on the run untill police cornered them at the Glenrowan Hotel. But his gang wore suits of body armor, possibly fashioned from moldboards plows and weighing 96 lbs. each, strong enough to repel the lead bullets in use at that time. During the gun fight three of the gang members died. But Ned, was captured after being shot several times in the legs. He was sentenced to death for murder.

Cemetery Walk: Cochrane Catholic Cemetery Video 3

Olive Tree Genealogy has added more Video of the Cochrane Catholic Cemetery in Cochrane Ontario.

Olive Tree has lots of other Cemetery Walk videos as well.

Cochrane Catholic Cemetery

Coffin Plate Of Mary Thomas 1859

This is a nice early coffin plate from 1859.

Mary Thomas
Died July 14 1859
Aged 20 Years 2 Mo 14 Days

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More fallen diggers found at Bullecourt burial site

They were buried where they lay. Not in mass graves prepared by the Germans, but in haste, by fellow diggers who pushed dirt in on top of the crater where their dead companions had been taking shelter, and then fled. And there they are believed to remain, up to 13 Australian soldiers, interred in a nameless pit beneath a road in northern France.

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War grave Lusitania gives up its sea-bed secrets

I am sure not many of us had ancestors on the Lusitania but its an interesting story.

The first images of artefacts that have been recovered from the 'Lusitania' the world's largest passenger underwater war grave.

The objects which include the ship's telemotor, telegraph and two porthole windows are now in saltwater tanks in a laboratory in Tralee, Co Kerry, having been recovered on Monday as part of an archeological exhibition in the making of a documentary by 'National Geographic' magazine.

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Margaret Tyler Coffin Plate 1885

Margaret Tyler Died July 2nd 1885 aged 80 yrs

Cemetery Walk Cochrane Catholic Cemetery Ontario Canada

Cemetery Walk Video 2 for Cochrane Catholic Cemetery in Ontario Canada. View other Cemetery Walks on Olive Tree Genealogy Channel on Youtube