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A Trip to Comanche County, Texas, to View Tombstones

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In May of this year, a friend and I took a trip to Dallas, Texas, to spend ten days doing family research. Besides governmental offices, historical societies, and libraries, our trip included trips to cemeteries. We visited six cemeteries in Comanche County, two in Jack County, one in Fannin County, one in Rockwall County, and two in Pontotoc County in Oklahoma. Some of these were for my friend and I don’t have family in Oklahoma or Jack and Fannin County. Even though the markers have images on  Find a Grave , I want my own photos so I can freely use them and not have to take the time to ask permission from the photographer of the image on  Find a Grave . Be sure to take a photo of the entrance with the name of the cemetery before you take photos within the cemetery. Visiting more than one cemetery on a trip will keep the photos separated between cemeteries. Here is a shot of my friend, Jacqueline, taking a photo of a stone of her family. The cemeteries I visited and took photos of my