Tombstone tourist

In fact, such was common during medieval times when people went to gravesites or to shrines to venerate saints.

[3] In China, the ancient tradition of ancestor worship[4] also involved a veneration of dead relatives with visitations to shrines and gravesites.

Making gravestone rubbings was in practice for centuries as a way of providing this documentation and appreciating the carvings on the tombstones.

Among genealogists, scouring cemeteries looking for the graves of dead ancestors is a common and longstanding practice with individuals often relying on limited and outdated information to find burial sites.

[7] The hunting of graves has become digital as many cemetery transcribers and ancestor hunters have begun using GPS equipment to locate the area where a graveyard or gravesite is reputed to be.