A cemetery is a place of peace & tranquility. A place to reflect on all those that have lived and gone before us. Standing alone and looking at a vast area of gravestones is a very humbling feeling & a tribute to the accomplishments of the lives they lived.
I am not really into the genealogy or ancestry part of it, but to merely honor family and friends by building a memorial page for them here on Find A Grave.
It gives me comfort to know that I can photograph gravestones, post them & photographs of loved ones, for their family to view when they visit their friend or relative's memorial page.
Please feel free to leave flowers or a note on any memorial page if you like.

??????????COINS OR STONES????????????
During my visits at the cemetery in my hometown, and in other cemeteries, I have noticed coins placed on some of the headstones. Most are pennies. Some are nickels, dimes or quarters. Sometimes stones or pebbles are left.
Some of you may already know or have heard of this. Those that have not, I was so interested in this that I did some research and found out this about the coins, stones, & pebbles and am very glad to share this:

According to some, leaving coins on a headstone has very specific meaning for military burials.
A coin left on a headstone lets the deceased soldier’s family know that somebody stopped by to pay their respect. Leaving a penny means you visited. A nickel means that you and the deceased soldier trained at boot camp together. If you served with the soldier, you leave a dime. A quarter is very significant because it means that you were there when they died.

No matter what the original intention of the coin-leaver may be, it seems clear that a coin left on a headstone is a symbol of remembrance and respect. A way of telling all who pass by that the person buried there was loved and visited often.
It is also a Jewish custom to place a stone or pebble on a headstone to indicate that you have
visited the grave and to indicate respect for the deceased.
Today, leaving a stone of remembrance is viewed more as a way of continuing this tradition of commemoration. The more stones found at a grave, the more the deceased has been visited and remembered by others.
An example would be the scene in Schindler’s List when the people that Oskar Schindler saved visit his grave and honor him by placing stones upon it.

A cemetery is a place of peace & tranquility. A place to reflect on all those that have lived and gone before us. Standing alone and looking at a vast area of gravestones is a very humbling feeling & a tribute to the accomplishments of the lives they lived.
I am not really into the genealogy or ancestry part of it, but to merely honor family and friends by building a memorial page for them here on Find A Grave.
It gives me comfort to know that I can photograph gravestones, post them & photographs of loved ones, for their family to view when they visit their friend or relative's memorial page.
Please feel free to leave flowers or a note on any memorial page if you like.

??????????COINS OR STONES????????????
During my visits at the cemetery in my hometown, and in other cemeteries, I have noticed coins placed on some of the headstones. Most are pennies. Some are nickels, dimes or quarters. Sometimes stones or pebbles are left.
Some of you may already know or have heard of this. Those that have not, I was so interested in this that I did some research and found out this about the coins, stones, & pebbles and am very glad to share this:

According to some, leaving coins on a headstone has very specific meaning for military burials.
A coin left on a headstone lets the deceased soldier’s family know that somebody stopped by to pay their respect. Leaving a penny means you visited. A nickel means that you and the deceased soldier trained at boot camp together. If you served with the soldier, you leave a dime. A quarter is very significant because it means that you were there when they died.

No matter what the original intention of the coin-leaver may be, it seems clear that a coin left on a headstone is a symbol of remembrance and respect. A way of telling all who pass by that the person buried there was loved and visited often.
It is also a Jewish custom to place a stone or pebble on a headstone to indicate that you have
visited the grave and to indicate respect for the deceased.
Today, leaving a stone of remembrance is viewed more as a way of continuing this tradition of commemoration. The more stones found at a grave, the more the deceased has been visited and remembered by others.
An example would be the scene in Schindler’s List when the people that Oskar Schindler saved visit his grave and honor him by placing stones upon it.