One of the interesting things that I have found in my research. Many foreign tombstones supply a "full family history". In Ireland for instance, a tombstone is more of a cenotaph which often states that it was erected by a son/daughter in memory of the father who died XX was married to mother (maidenname) b.XX died XX and to the child named b.XX died xx and to a son that was b. XX and died in South Africa, etc. There is almost a complete family history for a couple of generations and then it has a last line stating who erected and stone, their relationship, name and where they are residing. Fascinating reading when you are tracking backward as these often tie up many family relationships and tell where members are buried. Few are actually buried in that cemetery, but it does tell you to a large degree where to search further. In my own case, I know that my grandfather, Gordon Thomas Sizer (the name he used all of his life) is buried in Hamilton Cemetery under the name of his birth, Thomas James Sizer. My grandmother was cremated on her death (20 years after his death) and her ashes shipped from B.C. to be buried with him. I guess my uncle never got around to putting information on the stone. Cemetery records confirm that she is "with" him in the same plot, but a transcriber will never know that and British Columbia death records do not record that her ashes are in Ontario..