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 === Indexes and Records  ===
+'''Internet'''
 The Utah State History Section of the Utah Department of Community and Culture has a [http://history.utah.gov/research_and_collections/cemeteries/index.html Cemetery and Burial Database] that contains and index listing of Utah cemeteries and burials.
-This searchable database contains over a half-million names from many cemeteries scattered throughout Utah. More cemeteries are added periodically for this ongoing project. The standard search is for surname, given name, dates, and places. The results list shows the name of the deceased, birth and death date, and burial place. The long individual display may also include the birthplace, death place, cause of death, relatives, comments, and grave location.
+:This searchable database contains over a half-million names from many cemeteries scattered throughout Utah. More cemeteries are added periodically for this ongoing project. The standard search is for surname, given name, dates, and places. The results list shows the name of the deceased, birth and death date, and burial place. The long individual display may also include the birthplace, death place, cause of death, relatives, comments, and grave location.
-Another free Utah transcription database can be found at [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/utah.htm Access Genealogy database].
-Genealogical society members often copy and publish tombstones inscriptions. The USGenWeb Archives have records from more than 46 Box Elder, Davis, and Washington county cemeteries listed on their Internet site at:
+The USGenWeb Archives have records from more than 46 Box Elder, Davis, and Washington county cemeteries listed at [http://www.usgwtombstones.org/utah/utah.html The Utah Tombstone Transcription Project]. This is a county-by-county list of scores of cemeteries. The highlighted cemeteries include tombstone abstracts.
-[http://www.usgwtombstones.org/utah/utah.html The Utah Tombstone Transcription Project]
+:This Internet site indexes cemetery abstracts and other items. Select the state of interest, type the name of the ancestor you seek in the "Query" field, and click the Search button. For best results, use the "Search Tips" and examples at the bottom of the web page. The computer will list any matches it finds and give you the option of viewing the full transcript.
-This is a county-by-county list of scores of cemeteries. The highlighted cemeteries include tombstone abstracts.
+Another free Utah transcription database can be found at [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/utah.htm Access Genealogy database].
-This Internet site indexes cemetery abstracts and other items. Select the state of interest, type the name of the ancestor you seek in the "Query" field, and click the Search button. For best results, use the "Search Tips" and examples at the bottom of the web page. The computer will list any matches it finds and give you the option of viewing the full transcript.
+'''Books'''
 An important collection of cemetery and burial transcripts for more than a hundred cemeteries, excluding Salt Lake City Cemetery, is:
-:Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Cemetery Records of Utah. Salt Lake City: The Society, 1953. {{WorldCat|83203059|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}} {{FHL|979.2 V3c v. 1}} to {{FHL|979.2 V3c v. 10-12 index}} also on film at {{FHL|874349}} to {{FHL|874346 Item 1}}
+:Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Cemetery Records of Utah. Salt Lake City: The Society, 1953. {{WorldCat|83203059|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}} {{FHL|289471|item|disp=FHL film 874340 (first of 8 films); Book 979.2 V3c v. 1–13, Index}}.
-The records are listed by cemetery and grouped together by county. The counties are not arranged alphabetically or geographically. There is a separate index for each volume. The cemetery listings will give you the name of the deceased, location of the grave, birth date, and the parent or spouse. This has been indexed in the Early Church Information File.
+:The records are listed by cemetery and grouped together by county, the catalog notes provide information for the counties and cemeteries. There is a separate index for each volume. The cemetery listings will give you the name of the deceased, location of the grave, birth date, and the parent or spouse. This has been indexed in the Early Church Information File.
 An alphabetical list of the names of persons buried the largest cemetery in Utah is:
-''Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847–1992''. Orem, Utah: Automated Archives, 1994. (Family History Library&nbsp; compact disc no. 9 pt. 168.) This compact disc lists more than 100,000 burials, many of pioneers. The information on this record includes the name of the deceased, birth date and place, death date and place, including addresses, burial date, and burial location in the cemetery.
+:''Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847–1992''. Orem, Utah: Automated Archives, 1994. (Family History Library&nbsp; compact disc no. 9 pt. 168.) This compact disc lists more than 100,000 burials, many of pioneers. The information on this record includes the name of the deceased, birth date and place, death date and place, including addresses, burial date, and burial location in the cemetery.
-The library also has copies of plat books, interment records, registers and other records for the Salt Lake City Cemetery indexed to help locate your ancestors. The records of the dead give name, birth date and place, death date, cause of death, physician, and burial plot. Similar information is also located in the Interment records. After finding the location of burial, you may look at the plat books and see if family members are buried nearby. These records are located under:
-Salt Lake City Cemetery, Sexton. ''Cemetery Records, 1847-1976''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State Archives, 1976. (On 68&nbsp;Family History Library&nbsp; {{FHL|23661|title-id|disp=films beginning with 1293881}}.)
-A book and Internet index for Utah County give the names of all known people buried throughout the county and their birth date, death date, and cemetery. One appendix gives the cemeteries indexed in the book and the Family History Library call numbers. It is:
-Parkinson, Diane. ''Index to the Utah County Cemeteries''. Two Volumes. Provo, Utah: D.R. Parkinson and L. Youngstrom, 1997?&nbsp; (Family History Library {{FHL|718074|title-id|disp=book 979.224 V32p}}.)
+The library also has copies of plat books, interment records, registers and other records for the Salt Lake City Cemetery indexed to help locate your ancestors. The records of the dead give name, birth date and place, death date, cause of death, physician, and burial plot. Similar information is also located in the Interment records. After finding the location of burial, you may look at the plat books and see if family members are buried nearby.
-Utah Valley Regional Family History Center. ''Utah County, Utah, Cemetery Index''. In Ancestry.com. Orem, Utah: Ancestry, 1998, 1999 [cited 20 October 1999]. Available at:
+===Additional Sources===
-[http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3169a.htm http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3169a.htm]. This has roughly 85,000 entries from Utah County. Each entry lists (when available) surname, given name(s), birth date, death date, and cemetery location.
+If you are not able to locate the record of burial in the cemetery records,  you may find the burial or death information in the following records:
 === Veteran Burial Records  ===