Graveyard protocol for uploading

[ThrelfallYorky]

Someone I know who frequently takes photos of gravestones / inscriptions is actually often being helpful, because she often clears away overgrowth, very carefully, clipping and removing the debris, just to disclose the inscription fully.
I know she does it in a quiet, reverent manner, even undergoing great contortions to avoid stepping on the gravespace itself, as she knows the thought of that offends many.
I'd love to find some gravestones attached to my lot, but I know there are hardly any. It'd not offend me.

[Treetotal]

It is often the case when visiting small churchyards that the church is closed and there is no-one available to ask their permission.
It's a sign of the times that many small village churches are closed now when there are no services taking place.
Carol

[DavidG02]

Just further on the pebbles. Its seen as a custom to place a pebble to let others know someone still visits. It has come down from the Jewish tradition

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[eadaoin]

I've taken photos in a Co Meath cemetery - some have been online for 4 years or so.
recently I went back, and the Rector said family graves only . .
(I took several new photos, but just used them for transcription, not to publish - it disappointed me because they came out brilliantly - such a shame. Especially as this graveyard is visibly deteriorating from visit to visit . . )

The website policy is that a photo will be removed if a close relative requests it.

[LizzieW]

I've often taken photographs of gravestones in village churchyards when I've found ones of my ancestors.  Most of them are at least 200 years old though.  I do have a photograph of my maternal grandfather's and his eldest daughter's grave, with his youngest son aged about 20 I would guess, standing by the grave, so that must have been in the 1940s.  My g.grandfather died in 1922, his eldest daughter in 1920.  I imagine my maternal gran was buried in the same grave, although I've never been to see it and I was considered too young to go to her funeral - I was 8¹/₂ at the time. 

Just goes to show what memories can do for you.  I've lots of photos of my uncle in his 20s and in my mind, one of them was of him at the grave.  I've now found the photograph and it was taken in 1981 when he was 62