What begins as a short walk to a small forgotten cemetery turns into something far stranger: a sprawling burial ground in the Alabama woods that may contain as many as 150 to 200 graves. Among the ...

Teri Little knows where some of the bodies are buried, and she's looking for others. Little, president of Tomball's Chaparral Genealogical Society and Library, is using her knowledge of genealogy, ...

Across the United States, there is a significant number of forgotten burials of unmarked and lost graves. Geophysical techniques, including ground penetrating radar (GPR), are required to ...

Atop a 20 foot embankment off of Wellman Road, keen eyes may be able to spot a sign alluding to the presence of the ...

A Mississippi man who restores cemeteries discovered a lost, Black section of a cemetery in Rodney, Mississippi. The Cemetery Doctor, Trent Lewis, found multiple headstones and estimates there could ...

"If Uncle Jack hadn't been there " That was the recurring thought for Dana Bradley who visited Jefferson City with her 98-year-old father Bill Wheeler this week to attend Saturday's Historic Cemetery ...

Ground-penetrating radar found more than 120 gravesites, the remains of a lost cemetery for black residents, beneath a Tampa public housing complex. Zion Cemetery, established in 1901 and believed to ...

The Abandoned African American Cemeteries Grants, a state-funded initiative, awarded $39,000 to the WAIA as the group works to establish the cemetery’s original boundaries. WAIA has already identified ...

Maybe some discussions of burial grounds are somber and conducted in hushed tones — but not this one on James Island. More than 50 people crowded into a library conference room. Shouts of “Amen” and ...