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American Samoa Cemeteries

Online Resources

• BillionGraves Index - index & images
• BillionGraves American Samoa page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
• Find a Grave Index - index & images
• Find a Grave American Samoa Page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
• Interment index for American Samoa
• FamilySearch Places

Jewish Cemeteries

• JewishGen has a database to check for Jewish Cemeteries.

Military Cemeteries

• Department of Veterans Affairs Cemeteries - American Samoa
• Interment index for American Samoa downloadable file of 294 Records of U.S. Veterans Buried in American Samoa by interment.net
• Satala Cemetery The cemetery was established, apparently late in the 19th century, by the United States Navy.

Individual Cemeteries

• Traditional Samoan burial practice is to bury family members on their property, a method not available to outsiders.This limits the need for large public cemeteries.
• Satala Cemetery, American Samoa on Wikipedia.

Additional Resources at the FamilySearch Library

To find cemetery records for American Samoa in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:

1. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
2. Enter: American Samoa in the Place box
3. Click on: Search
4. Click on: Places within American Samoa
5. Click on: Cemeteries

If you don't find an entry for Cemeteries, you may need to go to a smaller jurisdiction by using Places within... a second time.

Additional Resources

• Tauti Auali'itia Faaoleole Laulu; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Society. Pedigrees of Samoa Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. 1970. Available on WorldCat
• Philip M Parker. 2007-2012 world outlook for cemeteries and crematories, the. ICON Group, 2006. Available on WorldCat
• Old Naval Cemetery (Satala, American Samoa). Cemetery records, 1900-1928 Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975. Available on WorldCat
• Computer file : English. Access Genealogy - American Samoa's Genealogy Resource Center. Available on WorldCat