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Some cemeteries will maintain a website which will often list operating hours, and some will post burial lists online on those sites. Be sure to see if the cemetery you want to find a burial has a website, often this can be found via a search engine. | Some cemeteries will maintain a website which will often list operating hours, and some will post burial lists online on those sites. Be sure to see if the cemetery you want to find a burial has a website, often this can be found via a search engine. | ||
==== Find A Grave ==== | ==== Find A Grave ==== | ||
[http://www.findagrave.com Find A Grave] is probably the best known aggregaor site for cemetery data. | [http://www.findagrave.com Find A Grave] is probably the best known aggregaor site for cemetery data. Photos and other information are gathered by site visitors and users and submitted to it. They are then made searchable, and you can search for a burial globally on the site. Coverage depends on the cemetery and the interest in it. May not contain the more recent headstones in some cases. | ||
==== Interment.net ==== | |||
[http://www.interment.net Interment.net] is a site where transcriptions of headstones are gathered and placed online. There are no photos, but you can often find listings of burials that can be nearly complete for older or very small cemeteries. | |||
==== BillionGraves ==== | |||
[http://www.billiongraves.com BillionGraves] is a newer site that allows users to download an app for their iPhone or Android device (for Android users, the website will indicate which Android devices do NOT work with their app), then go out to a cemetery and take pictures of the headstones. The app tags the photos with the GPS location, thus it effectively maps the cemetery, which makes it easy to find the location on the web or on the smartphone app. This site is very new, so coverage is not to the level of Find A Grave or Interment.net, but thousands of headstones are photographed and uploaded every week to the site. | |||
==== Names in Stone ==== | |||
[http://www.namesinstone.com Names in Stone] is another site that uses GPS technology to map cemeteries. An additional feature is that the site partners with cemeteries to add new headstone photos to the site on a regular basis since often a cemetery is still having burials take place. There are other mapping features on the site too. | |||
[[Category:Cemeteries]] | [[Category:Cemeteries]] | ||