Online Methods for Finding Cemetery Records

Use these Internet sites to accomplish the following steps:

Ancestry.com

  • Use census records here to pinpoint a place of death.
  • Possibly use information on One World Tree(SM) to locate possible place of death.


USGenWeb.org

  • Look on the state page and find county listings.
  • Search for listings of the burials in all the cemeteries in that county.
  • Include the information about the cemetery and the directions to the cemetery in your notes.


FamilySearch.org

  • Use the Social Security Death Index to narrow state and sometimes county of death plus an exact death date for those who died from about 1960 to the present time.
  • Use the Ancestral File to see if others have already listed the death date.
  • Use the Pedigree Resource File sources part (notice the CD# and Pin# then go see the CD at the local Family History Center) to see if others have already listed the death date.
  • Use the IGI to see if others have already listed the death date.


Google.com

  • Search for the name of the cemetery. Might lead you to a sexton address to write a letter.
  • Search for the newspapers discovered previously in a search of the Union Catalog of Newspapers to see what newspapers were published during the time period in question.


Other Web Sources for Finding Cemeteries (Just a few)



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