Names, dates, symbols and monuments are familiar to Phyllis Erhart, who visits Riverview Cemetery where her parents, both pairs of grandparents and a great-grandparent couple all are buried.
But she was delighted Wednesday to try out a specialized blue-paper rubbing technique, included in the History Talks program Wednesday hosted at Riverview Cemetery.
Carole Goggin, a full-time genealogist and researcher with the Jefferson County Historical Society, shared her grave-hunting clues and her methods of preservation recording with about a dozen guests.