Using Gravestones and Cemeteries to Research Your Roots

Anyone working on a family tree should plan to spend some time in Maine’s historic cemeteries. Finding the gravestone of a long-lost ancestor can be thrilling, but sometimes that stone reveals more than simply where a person was laid to rest. In this presentation rich with images from Maine, cemetery historian Ron Romano returns to Bangor to help attendees feel more enlightened as they search (and hopefully find!) grave sites and gravestones of their ancestors.

Ron Romano is author of four cemetery- and gravestone-themed books. He’s served as an officer on the board for the Association for Gravestone Studies, the leading organization in America for cemetery and gravestone studies. He is a long-standing trustee of the cemetery friends group for the 350-year-old Eastern Cemetery in his home town of Portland. Ron has designed cemetery tours for nearly twenty historic cemeteries and is a frequent lecturer on Maine’s early gravestones, cemeteries, and monumentmakers.

You may also like the following events from Bangor Public Library:

• This Saturday, 4th October, 10:00 am, Fall Arts & Crafts Supply Swap in Bangor
• This Saturday, 4th October, 10:00 am, Friends of the Bangor Public Library Fall Book Sale in Bangor
• Next Wednesday, 8th October, 05:30 pm, An Evening with Ken Baxter: A Literary and Musical Exploration in Bangor

Also check out other Arts events in Bangor, Literary Art events in Bangor.