As I left the prayer chapel in Helferskirchen, I wondered where the cemetery was located. After all on Find A Grave.com, I found the listing of persons buried in the Katholische Maria Himmelfahrt cemetery which included a number of my ancestors.
I looked down a street and saw a cemetery. This must be my lucky day! We walked down the street and walked through the cemetery. The cemetery looked new, like it was created in the 1980's not the 1700's.
Whenever I visit a cemetery in one of my ancestral lands, first, I look for any of my known ancestors. I have yet to find any of them from the 1700 and 1800's. Then I take (and also ask my traveling companions) to take photos of all the gravestones with specific surnames.
I found graves for the following people (who may be related to me) in the Helferskirchen cemetery --
HEIBEL Fridolin 1913-1996
Sophie 1919-2004
HEIBEL August 1908-1989
Frieda 1911-1996
HEIBEL Margareta 1906-2005
Wilhem 1904-1989
HEIBEL Anton 1903-1990
Hildegard 1908-1995
HOMMRICH Artur 1925-2007
Monika 1927-2012
RAMM Bernhard 1929-2007
Gertrud 1920-2007
RAMM Ewald 1929-2003
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