Guidelines for Evaluating & Registering Cemeteries
Learn about the special requirements for having a cemetery or burial place added to the National Register of Historic Places.

How to Clean a Gravestone
Find excellent step-by-step instructions on how to safely clean old, dirty tombstones from Saving Graves.

Neglected Cemeteries
Do's and don'ts for cleaning up an abandoned or unkempt cemetery from the Connecticut Gravestone Network.

Removing Lichens
Learn why lichens are really not harmful to gravestones, and browse a collection of collected removal tips. From Saving Graves.

Shaving Cream...What's Right? What's Wrong?
Covers the wide variety of misinformation on the Internet on the use of shaving cream on gravestones in order to make the carvings more visible.

Tombstone Cleaning
The Connecticut Gravestone Network presents a wonderful how-to on cleaning tombstones, including what NOT to do.

Tombstone Preservation
An excellent FAQ covering the preservation of tombstones from the use of shaving cream to the repair of broken stones. From the Association for Gravestone Studies.

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