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| *Tombstones may have symbols or insignias indicating military service and social or religious affiliations. | | *Tombstones may have symbols or insignias indicating military service and social or religious affiliations. |
| *Family members buried nearby. | | *Family members buried nearby. |
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| === Records and Indexes ===
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| Genealogical society members often copy and publish tombstone inscriptions and cemetery records and create indexes. The following are some of the records available for Vermont cemeteries:<br>
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| Most Vermont gravestones from earliest times to 1870 have been transcribed and are found in the Vermont Secretary of State’s ''General Index to Vital Records of Vermont, Early to 1870''. {{FHL|279437|item|disp=FHL films 27455–27741; digital version at FamilySearch}}
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| ''Index to James N. Arnold Tombstone Records’ Collection''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992. (On 12 Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|641346|title-id|disp=1819819}}.) This index is arranged alphabetically by surname and covers tombstone records in Vermont and other states.
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| Original records for cemeteries, tombstone inscriptions, and burial and removal permits are usually found in each town clerk’s office. See {{FHL|1627819|Vermont, Town Records, 1850–2005}}. A wiki article describing this collection is found at [[Vermont Town Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Vermont Town Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)]].
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| The [http://www.vermonthistory.org/ Vermont Historical Society] has a large collection of cemetery-related records.
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| The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) copied many tombstone records. Their collection, ''Vermont Genealogy'', is on microfilm at the Family History Library. {{FHL|3390|item|disp=FHL films 850109–850122}} It includes cemetery records for Addison, Bennington, Grand Isle, Rutland, and Windsor counties, and the towns of Dover, Bristol, Fairfax, Hardwick, Middlebury, Poultney, Pomfret, Putney, Shelburne, Waterville, Vergennes, and Waltham.
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| Several periodicals have published inscriptions and inventories from Vermont cemeteries. These are referenced in the “Places” section of the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), described in [[Vermont Periodicals]]. The following is an example of such a periodical:
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| *The [http://www.genealogyvermont.org/ Genealogical Society of Vermont] has published many cemetery transcriptions in their quarterly, ''Branches and Twigs''. {{FHL|299402|item|disp=FHL book 974.3 B2br}} This publication has been continued as ''Vermont Genealogy''. {{FHL|760567|item|disp=FHL book 974.3 D25v}}
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| The Veterans Affairs Office of the Vermont Adjutant General has a veterans’ grave registration card file for veterans of wars from the American Revolution through World War I. Over 6,000 Revolutionary War veterans’ graves are listed by town in:
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| *Crockett, Walter H. ''Soldiers of the Revolutionary War Buried in Vermont, and Anecdotes and Incidents Relating to Some of Them''. 1903–4. Reprint, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Antiquarian Books, 198–?. (Family History Library {{FHL|651817|title-id|disp=book 974.3 M2cw; Family History Library fiche 6078110}}.) This book lists by town the names of those buried and includes a list of 3,196 pensioners arranged by county.
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| For more information on cemetery records, see [[United States Cemeteries]].
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| === Online === | | === Online === |