The Irish Family History Forum will present “Written in Stone: In Depth Study of a Gravestone” as part of its Saturday morning program on June 15. Guest speaker Gena Philibert-Ortega will ask how closely do you examine your ancestors’ gravestones? Genealogists use gravestone information to document death information. But a burial marker often provides much more than just biographical detail. Gravestones should be analyzed, but doing so requires us to think beyond genealogical research.
The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. at Bethpage Public Library 27 Powell Ave., Bethpage, N.Y. Go to www.ifhf.org for full details.
