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Cemeteries

It is quite common that after a specific period of time, the graves are reused for others and the previously interred person's remains and gravestone are removed. If an ancestors' burial place and the grave has been vacated, the local administration (Bürgerservice, Friedhofsverwaltung) usually has a record of an ancestor's grave.

However, copies of some old tombstone inscriptions are available, especially for private or church cemeteries and crypts. Parish register burials, funeral sermons, bell tolling accounts, and civil registration death records are easier to find than tombstone inscriptions. Another alternative is if there is a general family plot in the area, your ancestor may have been buried there in the past but since replaced. Living relatives still in the area may be able to provide more information on family members that were once buried there.

Cemetery records may include the deceased's name, age, death or burial date, birth year or date, and marriage information. They may also provide clues about military service, religion, occupation, place of residence at time of death, or membership in an organization, such as a lodge.

Websites

• Germany FindAGrave Index, 1600-today, index & images
• BillionGraves
• Angrada
• Links on the Interment.net website
• Genealogy.net Gravestone picture database
• Ermland Grave sites (Warmia Blues
• The German Military Grave Registration Service. Maintains 2 million war graves in over 640 cemeteries. Assists in grave identification and restoration. Provides assistance in determining the fate of German war dead. Online Tomb Search
• Hamburger Friedhöfe
• 1720-1934 Halle(Saale), Germany, Burial and Cemetery Registers, 1720-1934 at Ancestry - images ($)