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Cemeteries and Genealogy

Steve Johnson

The official newsletter of Interment.net, a cemetery records database, cataloguing millions of burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the world. Online since 1997.

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Do Tombstones Tell Lies?

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Cemetery Records Collections: a New Feature

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  • Steve Johnson

    A computer geek going back to the 1980s. I launched Interment.net (a cemetery records archive) in 1997, and CousinConnect.com (a genealogical query database) in 2001. My wife and I launched "Choctaw Websites" in 2021, a website development business.

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