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Puerto Rico Cemeteries

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Online Resources

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

Jewish Cemeteries

• JewishGen has a database to check for Jewish Cemeteries. For Puerto Rico, look under United States, then Puerto Rico. There are 2 cemeteries with 127 burials.
• Jewish Community Center of Puerto Rico They will help with any research.

Military Cemeteries

• Department of Veterans Affairs Cemeteries - Puerto Rico
• Atlantic Garden Veterans Cemetery
• Interment index for Puerto Rico There is a downloadable file of 299 pages of records of U.S. Veterans Buried in Puerto Rico.

Individual Cemeteries

• Cementerio Católico San Vicente de Paul
• Cementerio Municipal de Mayagüez
• Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro
• Puerto Rico National Cemetery
• Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery
• Old Urban Cemetery
• Cementerio Civil de Ponce
• Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center
• Catedral Metropolitana Basílica de San Juan Bautista (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• Sabana Grande Masonic Cemetery

Additional Resources at the FamilySearch Library

To find cemetery records for Puerto Rico in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:

1. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
2. Enter: Puerto Rico 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

• Source Wikipedia. Religion in puerto rico : cemeteries in puerto rico, christianity in puerto rico, puerto rican [Place of publication not identified] : University-Press Org, 2013. Available on WorldCat
• Teresita Santini; Gabriel Suau. Between the sky and the sea : guide to the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzi Cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico [San Juan, Puerto Rico] : Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, Para la naturaleza : Municipality of San Juan, Bogotá, Colombia : Grupo OP Gráficas, S.A. ; [2014?] [date of printing not found] Available on WorldCat