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Bring out the Dead
October 20, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
– Hopkinsville Christian County Public Library
(HCCPL) Genealogy Department has announced its fall genealogy program: “Bring out
the dead.” The program will be held in the library’s Community Room from 5:00 P.M. –
6:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 20th . This is a FREE program with no pre-registration
required.
“Bring out the dead” will feature highlights of gravestone architecture as well as a
guided tour of cemeteries and their complex history through photographs. Our “award
winning exhibits” will invite reflection on issues and burial ceremonies.
How does Halloween have a genealogical twist? It commemorates the dearly departed
and sometimes those grave sites are indeed haunted. Many cemeteries had been
abandoned and long-forgotten when local societies and citizens began their research,
including house-to-house inquiries about old, vaguely-remembered plots, and traipsing
through the woods to find them. Cemeteries were located under parking lots, in rivers,
and several had been flooded by reservoirs.
Our collection of unusual epitaphs, burial ceremonies, and old graveyards will be
fascinating, puzzling, and SPOOKY. This program gives substance to “last words.”
Becky Quinten, HCCPL genealogist, noted “Discovering your family’s cemeteries or
grave sites unites the present with the past in a tangible way when you have the
opportunity to learn more about the importance of cemeteries in genealogy research.”
The HCCPL Genealogy Department is funded in part by the McCarroll family trust. The
Genealogy Department provides information through obitiuaries, periodicals, family
history collections, marriage, pioneer, tax, war and vital statistic records.
The Genealogy Department is housed on the 2nd floor of the library and is open
Monday-Friday, 930-630 and Saturday, 9-430.
(HCCPL) Genealogy Department has announced its fall genealogy program: “Bring out
the dead.” The program will be held in the library’s Community Room from 5:00 P.M. –
6:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 20th . This is a FREE program with no pre-registration
required.
“Bring out the dead” will feature highlights of gravestone architecture as well as a
guided tour of cemeteries and their complex history through photographs. Our “award
winning exhibits” will invite reflection on issues and burial ceremonies.
How does Halloween have a genealogical twist? It commemorates the dearly departed
and sometimes those grave sites are indeed haunted. Many cemeteries had been
abandoned and long-forgotten when local societies and citizens began their research,
including house-to-house inquiries about old, vaguely-remembered plots, and traipsing
through the woods to find them. Cemeteries were located under parking lots, in rivers,
and several had been flooded by reservoirs.
Our collection of unusual epitaphs, burial ceremonies, and old graveyards will be
fascinating, puzzling, and SPOOKY. This program gives substance to “last words.”
Becky Quinten, HCCPL genealogist, noted “Discovering your family’s cemeteries or
grave sites unites the present with the past in a tangible way when you have the
opportunity to learn more about the importance of cemeteries in genealogy research.”
The HCCPL Genealogy Department is funded in part by the McCarroll family trust. The
Genealogy Department provides information through obitiuaries, periodicals, family
history collections, marriage, pioneer, tax, war and vital statistic records.
The Genealogy Department is housed on the 2nd floor of the library and is open
Monday-Friday, 930-630 and Saturday, 9-430.
