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| Guide to locating cemetery records for ancestry, family history, and genealogy research. | | Guide to locating cemetery records for ancestry, family history, and genealogy research. |
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| ==What are cemetery records?== | | '''International Collections'''<br> |
| | *[http://www.findagrave.com Find a Grave] |
| | *[http://www.interment.net Interment.net] |
| | *[http://www.billiongraves.com BillionGraves] |
| | *[http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=205c956b-25b3-47fe-9fb1-2c758098e5cb&st=2 Waymarking.com Worldwide Cemeteries] |
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| | ==What Cemetery Records Are== |
| Cemeteries are regarded as the location where people are buried after they die. They are often known by various terms such as graveyards, burying grounds, burial grounds, burial plots, 'churchyards', and several other terms. A cemetery may be operated by a municipality, or it may be operated by a church or religion, a funeral home or other private company, or a fraternal order. | | Cemeteries are regarded as the location where people are buried after they die. They are often known by various terms such as graveyards, burying grounds, burial grounds, burial plots, 'churchyards', and several other terms. A cemetery may be operated by a municipality, or it may be operated by a church or religion, a funeral home or other private company, or a fraternal order. |
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| ==What can you find in cemetery records?== | | ==Information in Cemetery Records== |
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| '''Cemetery records may provide information such as: ''' | | '''Cemetery records may provide information such as: ''' |
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| *membership in an organization. | | *membership in an organization. |
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| ==How do you find cemetery records?== | | ==How to Find Cemetery Records== |
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| |<span style="color:DarkViolet"> ''' Many cemetery records are online. You should consult the Wiki article on cemetery records for each country to understand how to find and search its cemetery records</span>
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| ===Major Cemetery Record Collections===
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| *[http://www.findagrave.com Find a Grave]
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| *[http://www.interment.net Interment.net]
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| *[http://www.billiongraves.com BillionGraves]
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| *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/ The Political Graveyard]
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| *[http://www.namesinstone.com Names in Stone]
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| *[http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=205c956b-25b3-47fe-9fb1-2c758098e5cb&st=2 Waymarking.com Worldwide Cemeteries]
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| *[http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry]
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| *[http://www.rootsweb.com Rootsweb]
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| ===Sidebar Links to Wiki Articles for Cemeteries=== | | ==Cemetery Records by Location== |
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| ===U.S. County Cemetery Links Charts===
| | *[[:Category:Cemeteries]] |
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| ===Online Genealogical Records Pages===
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| On the main page for each U.S. State page and country page, a blue button leads to a listing of '''online record collections.'''
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| *'''Also, all the available Online Genealogy Records pages are linked at''' [[Online Genealogy Records by Location|'''Online Genealogy Records by Location.''']]
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| ===FamilySearch Catalog=== | | ==Strategies for Locating and Using Cemetery Records== |
| *Cemetery Records collected by FamilySearch, usually digitized and online, are listed in the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog '''FamilySearch catalog'''.] Enter the name of the country in the "Place Field" and click "Search". A list of record categories will be provided. Select "Cemeteries".
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| ===Cemeteries Not Transcribed or Published=== | | ====How to Determine the Cemetery==== |
| Cemeteries are often located next to a church. If you know where your ancestor attended church check that place first. If your ancestor died in another part of the country he or she may have been brought to the home parish for burial. Your ancestor may have been buried in a church or a civil (local authority) cemetery - usually near the place where he or she lived or died. You can find clues to burial places in church records, newspaper announcements, or family histories. There are a number of ways to find cemeteries:
| | *Some cemeteries are located next to a church. If the church name is known, search there first. |
| *Look in phone books or other directories for a location. Notice in the illustration in the above section that the FamilySearch collection has a category '''Cemetery - Directories''', | | *Individuals may die in another part of the country. but brought back to their home parish for burial. |
| *Look in atlases, gazetteers, or other maps to see if cemeteries are shown. | | *Burial places may be mentioned in church records, newspaper announcements, or family histories. |
| *Search for them on Google, which has many listed, but not all. Google Maps has a large number shown on them in English-speaking areas, coverage is incomplete in most other languages. | | *Search directories for possible cemeteries. |
| *Some cemeteries will maintain a website which will often list operating hours, and some will post burial lists online for those sites. Type the cemetery name in a search engine to see if the cemetery you want to find has a website. | | *Search in atlases, gazetteers, or other maps listing cemeteries. |
| *Notice in the illustration in the above section that the FamilySearch collection has a category '''Cemetery - Directories''',
| | *Google Maps has a large number of English-speaking areas, coverage is incomplete in most other languages. |
| | *Many cemeteries maintain a website which will often list operating hours, and some will post burial lists online for those sites. |