[One Proud Dad]

I like how scientists just unearth any damn thing they want. If they were to try and dig up and modern grave there would be outcries.

[GladesGuru]

Once all family members are gone, unless there are other people with a definite relationship to the "dear departed" - why not add to the sum of human knowledge?

Do I have any claim on the grave of an early Jewish profit because I am nominally Jewish?

Your question does have a whiff of NAGPRA about it - was this intentional or incidental.

[blam]

"I like how scientists just unearth any damn thing they want. If they were to try and dig up and modern grave there would be outcries."

I have given some thought to this. I was walking around a graveyard the other day and it is obvious many were /are forgotten especially the ones dated to the early 1800's. I thought to myself, is this it?

Now, I've also read that because the soil around here is so acidic that most of the people buried during the Civil War are all gone, absolutely nothing left of them underground, only a forgotten, weathered stone above ground...