Texas Cemeteries

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Online

The following have significant cemetery listings for Texas State:

• Findagrave.com Search for names at Find A Grave. Enter at least a last name then click Search. Can narrow by first names or dates.
  • This site frequently has tombstone images.
  • List of cemeteries in their database.
    • 1) Select the state, 2) pick a county, and 3) click Search. (There are too many cemeteries for a statewide list.)
      • Tip: To switch to a different county, click Cemetery Lookup under Actions at the left.
    • When you have a list, click on the number below Interments for a cemetery to access names. Click Records arrow to scroll through to the end.

• Web: Texas, Find A Grave Index, 1761-2012 at Ancestry.com (Free/$)

• Interment.net Cemetery Transcriptions
  

• Tea for 2 Headstone photos

• Linkpendium Search by county.

• Cemeteries-of-Texas Transcriptions and cemetery photos.

• D'ADDEZIO Cemetery

• USGenWeb Tombstone Photos

• Access Genealogy

• Texas Historic Cemeteries Cemetery information from the Texas Historical Commission.

• Texas Cemetery Records (at Texas Genealogy), Cemetery inscriptions online organized by county and city
  

• Cemeteries of The Diocese of Victoriaand name search of many of the cemeteries(scroll to bottom of page)

• HistoricTexasCemeteries.com Maps, transcriptions, information and more, sorted by county

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Texas, Bexar, San Antonio, Cemetery Records ( FamilySearch Historical Records)

Published Transcriptions

- Brinley, Lorine. Cemetery Records: A Texas and Louisiana Collection. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1959. FHL book 976 A1 no. 3 and FHL film 908964 item 8 This contains card indexes.Transcripts for many cemetery are on films 206289-303. 

-Cemetery Records of Texas. Six Volumes. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1956-63. FHL book 976.4 V3d and FHL films 897234-35

• Lists of the cemeteries in each county that are included in the above collections are in Sharry Crofford-Gould, Texas Cemetery Inscriptions: A Source Index. San Antonio, Texas: Limited Editions, 1977. FHL book 976.4 A1 no. 56

• Some of the earliest burials in Texas are recorded in Mrs. Malcolm B. Biggerstaff, Four Thousand Tombstone Inscriptions from Texas, 1745-1870: Along the Old San Antonio Road and the Trail of Austin's Colonists. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1952. FHL book 976.4 V3b

• The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection also contains tombstone inscriptions from many Texas cemeteries. This collection is described in the "Genealogy" article in this Wiki.