[TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...

[Laura Johnson]

which ones are you talking about?

anniegoe wrote:
> I meant the Sicily cemeteries!
> Ann
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laura Johnson" <rngade57 at madisontelco.com>
> To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...
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>> the ones of the bones?  NO, not yet.  I will add them when I get a
>> chance.  I am still playing catch-up after tax season and trying to get
>> a new yard under control at this house.  Too much pruning, weeding, etc
>> to be done to clean up what hasn't been done for year
>>
>> anniegoe wrote:
>>     
>>> 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...
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>>>> 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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