It was naive of me to think that all those buried at the cemetery would have a gravestone.
One email from a descendant with roots in Lubaczow reminded me that in Galicia the families would often save money for years after the relative died till they could afford to put up a gravestone.
With this in mind, and the ability to use the information in the civilian death register, I started to see that most of the gravestones I have identified till now, have been for persons who were fifty, sixty , seventy and more.
The impression is that very few children got their own gravestone.
Were the children buried in the outskirts of the cemetery?
Did their graves have some simple marker, without inscriptions?
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