Comment

Abstract

In the Reference Library where I work I am occasionally asked for records of gravestones and monumental inscriptions (genealogists again!). For genealogists and family historians it is a specialised sub‐culture of their particular interest, and has spawned several ‘how to do it’ publications, for example: Jeremy Jones, How to record gravestones (CBA & Rescue, 1979). There is also the Graveyard laughter type of book (by Samuel Klinger, Satellite Books, 1979). Another in this genre is: Philip Reder's Epitaphs (Michael Joseph, 1979). They yield such gems as:

Citation

(1983), "Comment", New Library World, Vol. 84 No. 7, pp. 109-112. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060594