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| ''Cenotaph:'' engraved on a tombstone indicates an empty grave, with the stone erected in memory or in honor of a person buried elsewhere. Abbreviations are often used on headstones. A list of abbreviations, including military abbreviations, is available at [http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/grave_symbols.shtml GRAVE SYMBOLS: Abbreviations on Gravestones] and [http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/graves/symbols.htm Historic Australian Cemeteries - Key to Symbols and Rituals Used in Cemeteries] | | ''Cenotaph:'' engraved on a tombstone indicates an empty grave, with the stone erected in memory or in honor of a person buried elsewhere. Abbreviations are often used on headstones. A list of abbreviations, including military abbreviations, is available at [http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/grave_symbols.shtml GRAVE SYMBOLS: Abbreviations on Gravestones] and [http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/graves/symbols.htm Historic Australian Cemeteries - Key to Symbols and Rituals Used in Cemeteries] |
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| == Locating Cemeteries ==
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| *Maps
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| *GPS
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| *Rural municipality maps
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| *Early Rural municipality maps, Cummins maps and atlases
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| *Rural municipality and town histories
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| *Land records: deeds, scrip and homesetads
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| *Government officials
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| *Church officials
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| *Mortuary & Funeral directors
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| *Local historians
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| *Residents
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| *Local history books
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| *Online search for cemetery name
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| *Information gained from obituaries, death certificates, mortuary funeral cards
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| *The Family History Library has cemetery records listed in the Locality Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under [PROVINCE], [TOWN] - Cemeteries
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| Funeral directors in the area where your ancestors lived may have records similar to death and cemetery records. Funeral Homes are listed in online telephone directories.
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| Cemetery records may include an internment record. This record may contain as much information as the cause of death, person making the funeral arrangements and some time periods.
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| The [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results#count=20&query=%2Bplace%3AAlberta Family History Library] has a few cemetery records listed in the Locality Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under the following:
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| *Alberta - Cemeteries - History
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| *Alberta - Cemeteries - Indexes - Periodicals
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| *Alberta - Cemeteries - Indexes
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| *Alberta - Cemeteries - Inventories, registers, catalogs
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| *Alberta - Cemeteries
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| *Alberta - Church history - Biography
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| *Alberta - Church history - Periodicals
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| *Alberta - Church history
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| *Alberta - Church records - Inventories, registers, catalogs - Indexes
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| *Alberta - Church records - Inventories, registers, catalogs
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| == Cemetery Addresses == | | == Cemetery Addresses == |