[TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...

[anniegoe]

Is there a place on the TI site to view the cemetery pictures?
Ann
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Johnson" <rngade57 at madisontelco.com>
To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...


> When a family no longer pays the rent on the grave, the grave is
> recycled and rented to another family or person.  The bones that are
> removed are buried in the ossuary or in the center of each section.  If
> you look at the pictures, you will see that each section of the cemetery
> is a square with the tombstones/graves going around the outside edge
> only.  In the center of those squares are graves of the recycled.
>
> I don't remember who it was when we were there in a group in 2006, but
> someone took pictures of the bones being removed from a grave and carted
> in bins away.  The pictures were pretty graphic
>
> Sally Glenn wrote:
>> Laura,
>> I found the cemetery pictures outstanding.You made the comment that they 
>> are
>> recycled. Would you please explain? My mother said that when whe was a 
>> child
>> there, she rembers baskets of bones.
>> Thank you.
>> Sally Ann Glenn
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Laura Johnson" <rngade57 at madisontelco.com>
>> To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:01 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...
>>
>>
>>
>>> Mark Nelson
>>>
>>> There is only ONE cemetery in Termini Imerese.  I don't know about 
>>> Trabia
>>>
>>> If you scroll down to the bottom of the following page you will see how
>>> the graves are recycled.  Finding the gravesites of ancestors who died
>>> before 1900 will be an almost impossible task.
>>>
>>> http://www.termini-imerese.org/Reunion/2006TI/Cemetery.htm
>>>
>>>
>>> QuikSilvez at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need the list of the cemeteries in Sicily,  especially in Trabia and
>>>> Termini Imerese...
>>>>
>>>> ~Mark Nelson
>>>>
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