Ancestors graves

**curupira** · 10-04-2014, 01:26 PM

Do you have any interesting info on the graves of your ancestors? In colonial Brazil, people would often be buried inside chapels. I've recently found pics of a chapel where an ancestor of mine is buried. I have his testament too. In it, he specifically mentions how he'd be buried in the chapel.

**Skjaldemjøden** · 03-23-2015, 03:10 PM

Beautiful chancel!
I have nothing fancy like that in my family, only a few pictures of headstones that no longer exist. In Denmark you have to pay to keep the grave in the churchyard more than a couple of years. Some churches choose to preserve fancy or old headstones for decoration, but for the most part you won't find more than a handful of 19th century graves. However, there is a painting depicting my direct ancestor, a priest who died in 1703, together with his wife and their flock of children. It was once part of an epitaph, but fell apart over time and was re-framed in the 1950's Attachment 56091 It may not be of particularly great artistic merit, but it's the oldest depiction of an ancestor that I have.
As for my Jewish ancestors, most of their graves have been destroyed. I'm told that the grave of my great-great-grandmother still stands in Latvia. I have a picture of her husband standing next to it in the late 1930's. She died in 1912.