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BillionGraves Index - index and images
FindAGrave Scotland Page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
SAFHS The Scottish Association of Family History Societies' website includes an inventory of over 3500 known burial grounds in Scotland and whether there are published or unpublished monumental inscriptions available.
Find A Grave, Scotland, 1500 - 2000 Find A Grave Scotland is based in Scotland. With over 3000 cemeteries and 32 councils in Scotland, the search is daunting. They have a database to help.
FindMyPast Scotland Billion Graves Cemetery Index($)
Scotland Monumental Inscriptions Index ($)
Ancestry($) England & Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2016
Ancestry($) Global, Gravestone Photograph Index, 1265-2014
Ancestry($) UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014
Anestry($) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Scottish Monumental Inscriptions
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NRScotland gov Useful Websites for tombstones.
NRScotland gov Old Parish Registers – Deaths and Burials
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Glasgow Family History Burial Lair and Cremation Registers

JewishGen has an inventory you can check. Click on Sweden.
ScottishJewishCemeteries
SJAC The Scottish Jewish Archive Centre
IAJGS 10 cemeteries in Glasgow
Atlas Obscura Sciennes Jewish Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland. This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

Wikipedia Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial is the only American Military Cemetery of World War I in the British Isles.
CWGC Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Britishwargraves British War Graves, War Graves in Scotland

To find cemetery records for Scotland in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:

To search for cemeteries at the town level, follow directions below.

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 *[https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm JewishGen] has an inventory you can check. Click on Sweden.
 *[http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org/ ScottishJewishCemeteries]
-*[https://www.sjac.org.uk/jewish-cemeteries-in-scotland/ sjac] The Scottish Jewish Archive Centre
+*[https://www.sjac.org.uk/jewish-cemeteries-in-scotland/ SJAC] The Scottish Jewish Archive Centre
 *[http://iajgscemetery.org/british-isles/scotland/glasgow IAJGS] 10 cemeteries in Glasgow
-*[https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sciennes-jewish-burial-ground atlasobscura] Sciennes Jewish Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland. This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.
+*[https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sciennes-jewish-burial-ground Atlas Obscura] Sciennes Jewish Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland. This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.
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