Vietnam Cemeteries

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Cemetery, Funeral and Cremation Records

Research use: Death information in other records is often meager. Used to identify surviving children in church records, and other family relationships. Chinese and other non-Christian cemeteries are particularly valuable due to a dearth of other records.

Record type: Lists of gravestone burial records, exhumations, cremations, sextons records, obituaries, funeral memorials.

Time Period: 1600-present.

Content: Name, age, death and burial date and place, birth date and place, sometimes relatives including immediate family and previous generations.

Location: Municipal archives, Church archives, libraries, Chinese community associations, cemetery offices.

Population coverage: 10%.

Reliability: Good.[1]


Cemeteries in Provinces

Red River Delta
Bắc Ninh

Hà Nam

Hải Dương

Hưng Yên

Nam Định

Ninh Bình

Thái Bình

Vĩnh Phúc

Hanoi (municipality)

Hai Phong (municipality)

Northeast
Bắc Giang

Bắc Kạn

Cao Bằng

Hà Giang

Lạng Sơn

Lào Cai

Phú Thọ

Quảng Ninh

Thái Nguyên

Tuyên Quang

Yên Bái

Northwest
Điện Biên

Hòa Bình

Lai Châu

Sơn La

North Central Coast
Hà Tĩnh

Nghệ An

Quảng Bình

Quảng Trị

Thanh Hóa

Thừa Thiên–Huế

Central Highlands
Đắk Lắk

Đắk Nông

Gia Lai

Kon Tum

Lâm Đồng

South Central Coast
Bình Định

Bình Thuận

Khánh Hòa

Ninh Thuận

Phú Yên

Quảng Nam

Quảng Ngãi

Da Nang (municipality)

Southeast
Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu

Bình Dương

Bình Phước

Đồng Nai

Tây Ninh

Ho Chi Minh City (municipality)

Mekong Delta
An Giang

Bạc Liêu

Bến Tre

Cà Mau

Đồng Tháp

Hậu Giang

Kiên Giang

Long An

Sóc Trăng

Tiền Giang

Trà Vinh

Vĩnh Long

Cần Thơ(municipality)

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References

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Vietnam,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2001.