Hello Pat,
I use nothing fancy. You can use metal clothes hangers or I have even used utility
markers, take the flags off and bend about 3 inches down for your hands to hold the wire.
It works!
I am sure you can find someone to make them for you for a price. You really
don't need anything fancy. Hold the handles loose in your hands. Hold them straight in
front of you close to your body and let the rods do the work.
Good luck! Let me know if you have success with it.
Angela
-------Original Message-------
From: pagharris(a)sbcglobal.net
Date: 11/29/2007 5:04:02 PM
To: inpcrp(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Dowsing
Where do you find the metal dowsing rods and how much do they cost?
Pat Harris
----- Original Message -----
From: "atielking" <atielking(a)insightbb.com>
To: <inpcrp(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:32 AM
Subject: [INPCRP] Dowsing
Hello Ernie and Jack,
I know quite a few folks here on the list do not agree with dowsing and
say
it doesn't work. I used to be one of those people. One day I just said
heck with it and gave it a try and I very happy and surprised with its
results. It doesn't hurt anything and is less invasive. And I don't mean to
add fuel to the fire about dowsing, but this is supposed to be a discussion
list and hopefully this will help someone down the road.
When we (the Hancock Co. Cemetery Commission) are searching for
gravemarkers
that have sunk below the ground, we first use the traditional
method of probing. When we feel we have done all that we can to find the
stones, we will use metal dowsing rods to find them. I don't know how it
works, why it works, etc... but it works for us. Do I think we find all the
stones that could be there? Probably not. But we have found more because we
have dowsed. We found a two year old little girl's marker that way. If we
hadn't of dowsed, more than likely little Clara wouldn't have been found
because we probed that area and couldn't find it that way. Clara was our
most recent find, we have found many others, especially field markers that
way.
Like I said, I don't know how or why it works, but maybe you just need to
have a little bit of faith. :-) I think some people are better at it than
others. Our Commission president has the best luck.
As far as an unmarked grave that is a different story. We are trying to
find
markers, not bodies. If it is a cemetery with no plot records, I am
sorry, but I feel it should not allow burials, just for that reason of
digging into another - unless there is beyond a shadow of a doubt that no
one is buried in that AREA.
Take care,
Angela Tielking
Hello Jack,
I'm sorry about causing the ruckus over dowsing, but it is only
accurate about 10% - 20% of the time and I do not recommend ot for
locating graves. That's not much better than guessing, and only as
good as common sense and intuition at finding graves. In our
business an inaccurate guess could eventually come back to bite us and
cause a lot of headaches.
Consider the township trustees that are locating the empty lots in
their cemeteries for possible sale by using ground penetrating radar.
What would the legal ramifications be if the trustee sold lots that
were found to be already occupied upon excavation for a grave? This
could effect the trustee that sold the lot, the family that purchased
it, and possibly the family of the unknown deceased already buried
there.
And, in a case like yours, a contractor is told that dowsing has shown
that there are no graves in a piece of ground and when the excavatoin
begins bones and/or coffins are dug up. Then the BIG problems
begin. Or a contractor hires a company to move a grave that has
been dowsed only to find nothing there. The contractor will not be
happy at the added expense.
Rich Greem and others have proven that ground penetrating radar works.
In our business of restoring and/or protecting Pioneer cemeteries
I don't think that folk superstitions such as dowsing should be used
to locate graves.
Ernie
(sorry for the late reply, my computer crashed and I do not have a
replacement yet. I'm working off a loaner)
Quoting Jb502000(a)aol.com:
>
she and I should have. As for religion, I don't discuss it, period.
> As far as
> Dowsing it is said by certain groups to work, (Not this one so far) but
when
> I'm trying to locate a cemetery or burying ground, I'll
try anything
> legal, or
> moral. I do consider anything I have said to be within the confines of
the
> List. I have to make a judgement call on a "Lost"
burying ground.
> This I Have
> done.
> It was settled yesterday. No Offense intended;
>
> Jack E. Briles
> Floyd Co. Coordinator
> INPCRP
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