Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Parts of the Gravestone
3. Questions to Ask
4. Resources

4. RESOURCES

• Gravestone Glossaries
  • Gravestone Glossary for Protestant Cemeteries by Dean Eastman
  • Create your own Gravestone Glossary (word doc)
    • Resources for creating a Gravestone Glossary:
      • A list of the most common symbols and what they mean from GraveNet.
      • A more comprehensive list of symbols and their associations from the Gravestone Studies Association.
      • Jessie Lie Farber's "Early American Gravestones" (Farber Collection)
• Seriation Charts
  • Blank Seriation Charts to be Completed by Students
    • Simple Seriation Chart (word doc)
    • Advanced Seriation Chart (excel)
      • Instructions for Excel Charting
  • Sample Seriation Charts
    • Image files
      • Seriation Chart Stoneham Cemetery, MA (image file)
      • Comparison of Iconography used in Sephardic Cemeteries in Jamaica, St. Eustatius, and Newport (1740-1860) (image file)
      • Changes in Headers in Touro Cemetery, Newport RI (image file)
      • Percent of Stones with Iconography by Age in Touro Cemetery, Newport RI (image file)
      • Seriation Charts for Martha's Vineyard by Joseph Iarocci (1979)
        • Seriation from Three Cemeteries on Martha's Vineyard, 1688-1804 (Iarocci 152)
        • Seriation from the West Tisbury Cemetery, 1688-1804 (Iarocci 153)
        • Seriation from Edgartown's Tower Hill and Pease's Point Way Cemeteries, 1688-1804 (Iarocci 154)
        • Seriation from Chilmark [Abel's Hill] Cemetery, 1688-1804 (Iarocci 155)
    • Excel files
      • Seriation Chart Touro Cemetery, Newport RI (excel with charts)
      • Limited Data Seriation Chart Trinity Cemetery, Newport RI (excel with charts). Please note that this chart has very limited data in it and is intended solely as a sample for how to fill in data, not for research purposes
• Model Interpretation: Reliance McGee, “A Hopeful Child”
• Carvers: Learning to Recognize Individual Styles
• Gravestones in the IC Archive
• More Gravestones Online
  • Farber Gravestone Collection (American Antiquarian Society)
  • Martha's Vineyard Cemeteries
  • Cape Cod Gravestones
    • Upper Cape--Bourne, Sandwich, Mashpee, Falmouth, Barnstable
    • Mid Cape--Yarmouth, Dennis, Brewster, Harwich, Chatham
    • Lower Cape--Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, Provincetown
    • Gravestone Image Styles 1683 to 1799 - A Quick Tour
    • Gravestone by Carver
  • More Wampanoag Gravestones (Mashpee Town Cemetery aka Old Indian Cemetery)
• Articles and Syllabi
• Topics in Material Culture Studies: Gravestones and Burying Grounds (Brown University); Vocabulary, Links & Books
• Tiptoeing through the Tombstones by Dean Eastman (Common Place article on Using Gravestones in the Classroom)
• Death's Head, Cherub, Urn and Willow By James Deetz and Edwin S. Dethlefsen
• Biographical Information
• Dukes County History and Genealogy Web Site
• Bibliography
• Try it Yourself!