The "Special Hell" Just Keeps On Growing

Serious Nerds and Geeks will immediately recognize the "Special Hell for child molesters and people who talk in the theater".

Nerdlings know this led to a new map of Dante's Inferno reimagined for the Internet.

I long ago exercised Executive Authority and expanded the Special Hell to include people whose genealogy work is either patently not or poorly researched, and/or whose documentation is either bad, lousy, or non-existent. Shooting is too good for these people.

Well today the Special Hell just got bigger. It now includes people who willfully destroy cemeteries.

We (TW and I) had a small local family cemetery on our 'To Visit' list. Specifically the visit was to confirm and update the GPS locations not only for the graves (two marked out of four recorded in it), but for the cemetery itself. Oddly, the cemetery had no description or confirmed location in Find A Grave. 

This had to be rectified!

I sent off a message to the individual listed as maintaining the graves in Find A Grave asking if he would be kind enough to pass along directions to the site. What he replied maketh my blood boil!

The cemetery was destroyed some 11 of more years ago. It was behind a residential home built about 1968 and, for reasons passing all understanding, was permitted to be either destroyed or covered over.

Thus the Special Hell was expanded.

Fortunately the GPS location had been recorded by the county historical society. So I wrote up a brief description and history of the destruction and submitted it to the Find A Grave staff for the cemetery record to be updated.