Thanks Marika , That is just too interesting. What a find for someone years down the road looking for info. WOW!!! Julie B in NC -----Original Message----- From: hungary-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:hungary-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of MLPecsi@aol.com Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 10:13 AM To: hungary@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HUNGARY] Nailing The Ghost 1906 In a message dated 10/1/2010 12:36:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, gstefanovics@blr.com writes: Very fitting for halloween. The fear of vamires or vukodlachi in Hungary and eastern Europe in general often led to the mutilation of the dead in such a way as to prevent the dead from arising. How different from western Europe, especially in the late 19th and 20th centuries, where certain people took extraordinary measures to ensure they could communicate with the living in the event they were buried alive, such as speaking tubes leading from the coffin to the gravestone. Actually there is a more modern way of "speaking from the grave":. Just attended a genealogy talk given by promoters of a tombstone Memory Medallion. One can tell one’s own life’s story, or a family member can do this posthumously. The medallion is embedded in the tombstone and can be read by two different means. Accessed by a smart cell phone, it will read the bar code or using a camera to take a picture of the bar code and then getting on the Medallion website with the bar code will enable one to view photos, video, histories. _http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10218/1078084-455.stm_ (http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10218/1078084-455.stm ) Marika ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HUNGARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message