The fascination with Victorian mourning traditions

While doing my research I have been amazed at the multitude of individuals out there that are fascinated with the various Victorian mourning traditions.  There are blogs and websites galore on every topic you could think pertaining to Victorian mourning.  Even a quick search on Pinterest will produce an abundance of pins dealing with the subject.  For a time period when camera's weren't owned by every individual like today the number of photographs available has been surprising.  However, many of these sites are produced by individuals without credible or posted sources.  It has made the research part of the project a bit more tedious than I expected.