Comments on: The Story of a Stone: Miriam Works Young

By: of-the-sea

of-the-sea — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:01:08 +0000

What was lost is found.

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:12:03 +0000

Ardis, you have done it again–taken parts of a small story and turned into something new and informative. You are great!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:51:05 +0000

Ha! Love it!

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:39:18 +0000

“Cemeteries: the ultimate geocache.”

Heh heh.

“Hmmm, I wonder what’s at this next set of coordinates?”

“A person.”

“A person? Like someone’s home? What if they’re not there?”

“Oh, I’m sure they’ll still be there by the time we arrive.”

“How do you know? What if they need to go out for something?”

“Don’t worry, they never go out.”

“Huh? Why? How do you know?”

“They’re dead.”

“What? Someone geocached a dead person?”

“Yeah, it’s called a grave. In a cemetery. Don’t worry, we’re not going to dig it up. The stamp should just be in a hidden box.”

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Hey, that would be an interesting thing for a geocacher to specify in their will. Prepare a geocache box, with log book and stamp, to put in a niche or shelf on the headstone. When they resurrect, they could look at all the visitors in the log book.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:52:11 +0000

A lot of the genealogy sites are including GPS information on graves. I even discovered a geocache at Tomlinson’s Corners cemetery. So I think you’re right — people with that technology at their fingertips are finding it a useful bit of data to share.

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:07:53 +0000

I don’t know if it’s in widespread use, but GPS coordinates would be really cool to attach to all newly created instances/records of grave information, especially online. Not just new graves, but attaching GPS coords, and hopefully photos, to old grave information that is electronically recorded by researchers. That way, if identifying information gets eroded, the information can be looked up by coordinates. Or, if any cemeteries get “lost” again, they can be re-found with the coords.

I just thought of something. At the morning of the 2nd Coming, Celestial-qualified people get resurrected, and that afternoon, Terrestrial-qualified people get resurrected. So grave location information for them would be moot at that point, wouldn’t it?

By: kevinf

kevinf — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:03:58 +0000

Nice story. Even the small ones are cool.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:56:06 +0000

Nice post, Ardis. I’ve found it surprising how little information I could find online about the various parts of the Brigham Young family, so this post is a real service to the family and the church.

And, also, kudos to all the good people who participate in the Graveyard Rabbits and Findagrave projects. I am thoroughly convinced that communal projects like that and Wikipedia and Family Search Indexing and the publicly-available photography at Flickr (etc.) are some of the great wonders of modern civilization.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:25:32 +0000

Thanks, J. and Polly.

As minor as the story is, it’s the kind of thing that is fun for someone like me to research because it required pulling together little bits of nothing from 13 unique sources.

By: Polly Aird

Polly Aird — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:15:47 +0000

Really nice post, Ardis. Thanks.