Today, we put Hreljin Cemetery on the genealogy map. We had hoped to have help for this, but Liz and I went to Hreljin and accomplished our task single-handed. Or maybe with two of us, it was double-handed. In any case, we photographed every gravestone in the cemetery. We figure there were 800-900 of them. They are crypts, so each one can hold up to seven coffins.
This is one of the fanciest of the headstones. There are four people in this crypt, all of them with the last name of Benac.
There were also some very old crypts. The oldest person I saw on them was someone born in 1824, died in 1919. That was on a stone embedded into the back wall of the graveyard, on the opposite side from where Liz is standing in the photo below. I think it must have been moved here from another location. And did the body accompany the stone? Was there a body left? I don't know, but I photographed it anyway.
The oldest graves are at the far end of this photo, with modern ones at this end.
We did our work using an App called "BillionGraves". I had to add the cemetery before we started. Then we took a photo, decided if it was keep-able, if not take a replacement, then marked "USE". The photo is then saved, along with GPS coordinates, in a database that can be accessed by people all over the World.
This next photo takes some explaining. It is a memorial to WWII veterans. I've never seen a sunken memorial like this before.
The grass on top of the memorial is at g round level, so you don't see anything at all from a few yards away. There are three stairways down into the lower level, where the pedestal goes into a globe. On the three sides between the staircases are three plaques. This one has some peoples' names, including some Benacs who might be relatives. There are some other familiar-to-family names, too.
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