Hi "E", This is so interesting. I guess it's just unfamiliar to Americans because we have such a new country, filled with so much open space.
Liliana On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 6:05:24 PM UTC-7, E Sharp wrote: > Liliana, > > Not sure about the Azores, but in other areas of Europe after a number of > years this is true. My friends in Germany told me that if they wanted to > continue to have their father remain where he was, they could either pay > again or the area would be reused. Not sure what they did with the remains > - not sure if he ever had a stone. I am very lucky that my for my family > members in Croatia, they kept the stones and lined the perimeter of the > cemetery with the old stones so I was able to find many of my family's > stones which, of course, I took pictures of. > > "E" > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Liliana Harris > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I had thought I would travel to the Azores this summer and do a little >> research in the cemeteries. Now I read (again, I will admit, fiction) that >> the people dig up (all?) the bodies after a certain number of years. Can >> this possibly be true, especially in a Catholic culture? Why? Where would >> they put the bodies? Would the headstones remain? >> >> -- >> For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >> (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the >> right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my >> membership." >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Azores Genealogy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> > > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
