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Since September 2021, I've been busy photographing, transcribing, and documenting the gravestones at my local churchyard, St Nicholas, Sutton Parish, Surrey (now Greater London). 👉 Here's a thread about 15 months spent in a #graveyard. [1/25] #AncestryHour 
This entire project started as an excuse to get outside and get some exercise. “Why not photograph a few gravestones and add them to @FindaGrave?” I said... [2/25] #AncestryHour
Yeah, right. Like an enthusiastic #genealogist is just going to take a few gravestone photos. Absolutely NO chance that it might lead to a compulsion to photograph EVERY. SINGLE. GRAVESTONE. I mean, AS. IF. [3/25] #AncestryHour
(1/3) I think a lot about a certain phenomenon I've observed as a Jewish #genealogist. The generation born after the generation born after the Holocaust often mention in our consults "I don't think our family lost anyone" (if there's no explicit family story) (cont.)
(2/3) And invariably, even for the ones whose families were here decades before, there's always someone. There's a moment of silence when they discover their beloved grandmother lost cousins, aunts, uncles. When they learn the fates of their great great grandparents (cont)
(3/3) I was explicitly as a child who was murdered in my family. This is not the case for so many of us. Pain and the distance of generations let the memories fade into silence. It's my daunting and precious task to bring them back into living memory. #genealogy
