The following resources were indispensable in helping with the research for this site. I would especially like to thank Terry Schaefer, Manager of the Town of Maine Cemetery and Sherri Caine of the Des Plaines Historical Society.

Des Plaines Historical Society

Park Ridge Public Library

Graveyards of Chicago
Best resource for Information on all Chicago area cemeteries. My inspriation for this site.

Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland

Cemetery Innersource

Cemetery Symbols Found in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
Good source for interpreting symbols commly found in a cemeterues

Dust to Dust

Northstar Gallery Specializes in sensuous memorial and cemetery art

The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery

Graveyards of Omaha

TheCemeteryClub.com

Saving Graves Specializes in Cemetery Preservation around the world.

International Association of Cemetery Preservationists, Inc

Grand Army of the Republic

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

The Museum of Funeral Customs

The Association for Gravestone Studies

Find a Grave
Find the graves of ancestors and thousands of famous people from around the world, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc.

Taphophilia.com
A repository of morbid curiosities Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery, Funeral Industry and Death Related News