Funeral or prayer cards are frequently distributed at funerals as mementos of the deceased. They can also be valuable in genealogical research. (Photo by Danny Klein) When I first started researching ...

There's a nonstop party going on in my Bible, and all the guests, sadly but undeniably, are dead. Every time I attend a funeral, I take one of those prayers cards stacked near the sign-in book. You ...

In a used bookstore in Philadelphia, I paid eight dollars for a collection of dead people. Of course, bookstores generally do not deal in cadavers. But they do sell objects imbued with history: a ...