
Cemetery records and cemeteries, in general, are a very large part of our family history and are a significant pursuit for many genealogists. Sometimes, the information on a headstone is the only information available for certain ancestors.
What can you find in these records? How about birth, marriage, and death information and clues to military service, religion, and organization memberships? Location of the burial plot, tombstone inscriptions, cemetery maps, sexton registers, and headstone photos are also generally available.
Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching cemetery records:
- FamilySearch – United States Cemeteries
- A Gravesite Can Reveal Remarkable Details About Your Ancestor IF You Can Find It: Here’s How
- Rootsweb – Cemetery Records
Note: Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
Below are links to cemetery, burial, and interment records as well as indexes and tombstone inscriptions that are available for free online.
(Updated November 2022)
General U.S.
- African American Cemeteries.com
- Billion Graves Index
- Find A Grave Index
- Names in Stone Cemetery Maps
- United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969
- US GenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project
- Veteran’s Nationwide Gravesite Locator
Alabama
- Alabama, Cemetery and Masonic Lodge Records
- Alabama, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Alabama, Cemetery Records
- Alabama, Cemetery Records, reprinted from “The Alabama Genealogical Register”
- Alabama, Genealogical Records, including Cemeteries
- Alabama, Miscellaneous Genealogical Records
- Alabama, Miscellaneous Records
- Alabama, Miscellaneous Records, Cemetery and Bible Records
- Alabama, Tombstone Inscriptions
- Alabama, Tombstone Inscriptions from Cemeteries
- Alabama, Records, including Cemeteries
- Alabama, Miscellaneous Records
- Ashdale, Macon County, Burton’s and People’s Cemeteries, 1842-1995
- Autauga County Cemeteries
- Autauga County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Autauga County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Autauga County Cemeteries and Records
- Autauga County Cemetery Records
- Autauga County, Apperson Family Cemetery
- Autauga County, Autaugaville Cemetery
- Autauga County, Bethel Baptist Cemetery
- Autauga County, Burt Cemetery
- Autauga County, Cemeteries
- Autauga County, Old Autaugaville Cemetery
- Baldwin County Cemeteries
- Baldwin County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Baldwin County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Baldwin County Cemetery Records
- Barbour County Cemeteries
- Barbour County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Barbour County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Barbour County Cemetery Records
- Barbour County, Adams Chapel Cemetery Survey
- Barbour County, Antioch Cemetery
- Barbour County, Beasley Family Cemetery
- Barbour County, Cemetery Records
- Barbour County, Creel Church Cemetery
- Barbour County, Rapture City Cemetery
- Barbour County, Tombstone Inscriptions
- Bibb County Cemeteries
- Bibb County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Bibb County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Bibb County Cemeteries and Records
- Bibb County Cemetery Records
- Bibb County, Abney Cemetery
- Bibb County, Acker Cemetery
- Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., Oak Hill Cemetery Index, 1873-2009 (Index only free)
- Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., Red Mountain Cemetery Index, 1888-1906 (Index only free)
- Birmingham, Bible and Cemetery Records
- Birmingham, Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery Interments
- Birmingham, Red Mountain Cemetery Interments
- Birmingham, Red Mountain Cemetery Record of Interments, 1888-1906
- Birmingham, Shadow Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery Interments
- Birmingham, Mountain Creek Soldiers Home Headstones, 1913
- Blount County Cemeteries
- Blount County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Blount County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Blount County Cemeteries and Records
- Blount County Cemetery Records
- Blount County, Cemetery Records
- Blount County, Tombstone Inscriptions
- Bullock County Cemeteries
- Bullock County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Bullock County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Bullock County Cemeteries and Records
- Bullock County Cemetery Records
- Bullock County, Enon Cemetery
- Butler County Cemeteries
- Butler County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Butler County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Butler County Cemeteries and Records
- Butler County Cemetery Records
- Butler County, Alabama Cemeteries
- Butler County, Cemeteries
- Calhoun County Cemeteries
- Calhoun County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Calhoun County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Calhoun County Cemeteries and Records
- Calhoun County Cemetery Records
- Canton Bend, Methodist Church Cemetery, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Chambers County Cemeteries
- Chambers County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Chambers County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Chambers County Cemeteries and Records
- Chambers County Cemetery Records
- Cherokee County Cemeteries
- Cherokee County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Cherokee County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Cherokee County Cemeteries and Records
- Cherokee County Cemetery Records
- Cherokee County, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Chilton County Cemeteries
- Chilton County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Chilton County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Chilton County Cemetery Records
- Choctaw County Cemeteries
- Choctaw County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Choctaw County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Choctaw County Cemeteries and Records
- Choctaw County Cemetery Records
- Choctaw County, Cemetery Records
- Claiborne, Record of Inscriptions of Jewish Cemetery
- Clarke County Cemeteries
- Clarke County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Clarke County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Clarke County Cemeteries and Records
- Clarke County Cemetery Records
- Clay County Cemeteries
- Clay County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Clay County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Clay County Cemeteries and Records
- Clay County Cemetery Records
- Cleburne County Cemeteries
- Cleburne County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Cleburne County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Cleburne County Cemeteries and Records
- Cleburne County Cemetery Records
- Coffee County Cemeteries
- Coffee County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Coffee County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Coffee County Cemeteries and Records
- Coffee County Cemetery Records
- Colbert County Cemeteries
- Colbert County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Colbert County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Colbert County Cemeteries and Records
- Colbert County Cemetery Records
- Conecuh County Cemeteries
- Conecuh County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Conecuh County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Conecuh County Cemeteries and Records
- Conecuh County Cemetery Records
- Coosa County Cemeteries
- Coosa County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Coosa County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Coosa County Cemeteries and Records
- Coosa County Cemetery Records
- Cottondale, Cottondale Cemetery, A Comprehensive Listing of Interments since 1871
- Covington County Cemeteries
- Covington County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Covington County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Covington County Cemeteries and Records
- Covington County Cemetery Records
- Crenshaw County Cemeteries
- Crenshaw County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Crenshaw County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Crenshaw County Cemetery Records
- Cullman County Cemeteries
- Cullman County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Cullman County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Cullman County Cemeteries and Records
- Cullman County Cemetery Records
- Dale County Cemeteries
- Dale County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Dale County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Dale County Cemetery Records
- Dale County, Cemetery Records
- Dale County, Early History and Cemetery Records
- Dale County, Inscriptions from the Cemeteries
- Dallas County Cemeteries
- Dallas County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Dallas County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Dallas County Cemetery Inscriptions
- Dallas County Cemetery Inscriptions
- Dallas County Cemetery Records
- Dallas County, Vital statistics from Cemeteries
- De Kalb County Cemeteries
- De Kalb County Cemeteries and Records
- De Kalb County Cemetery Records
- Decatur, Cemetery Records
- DeKalb County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- DeKalb County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- DeKalb County, Cemetery Records
- Elmore County Cemeteries
- Elmore County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Elmore County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Elmore County Cemeteries and Records
- Elmore County Cemetery Records
- Elmore County, Bethlehem West Baptist Cemetery
- Escambia County Cemeteries
- Escambia County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Escambia County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Escambia County Cemeteries and Records
- Escambia County Cemetery Records
- Escambia County, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Etowah County Cemeteries
- Etowah County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Etowah County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Etowah County Cemeteries and Records
- Etowah County Cemetery Records
- Etowah County, Beulah Cemetery, Burial List
- Etowah County, Cemetery Records
- Etowah County, Cemetery Survey
- Etowah County, Cox Cemetery, Burial List
- Evergreen, Conecuh County, The Evergreen Old Historical Cemetery
- Fayette County Cemeteries
- Fayette County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Fayette County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Fayette County Cemeteries and Records
- Fayette County Cemetery Records
- Fayette County, Cemetery Records, 1958-1959
- Fayetteville, Fort Williams Cemetery
- Franklin County Cemeteries
- Franklin County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Franklin County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Franklin County Cemeteries and Records
- Franklin County Cemetery Records
- Geneva County Cemeteries
- Geneva County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Geneva County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Geneva County Cemetery Records
- Greene County Cemeteries
- Greene County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Greene County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Greene County Cemetery Records
- Grove Hill, Grove Hill Cemetery, Cemetery Records, 1840-1977
- Hale County Cemeteries
- Hale County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Hale County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Hale County Cemeteries and Records
- Hale County Cemetery Records
- Henry County Cemeteries
- Henry County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Henry County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Henry County Cemeteries and Records
- Henry County Cemetery Records
- Henry County, Cemetery Records
- Henry County, Cemetery Records
- Henry County, Genealogical Records
- Henry County, Old Pleasant Plains Cemetery, Survey & Tombstone Photos
- Henry County, Tomb Inscriptions
- Houston County Cemeteries
- Houston County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Houston County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Houston County Cemeteries and Records
- Houston County Cemetery Records
- Houston County, Rocky Creek United Methodist Church Cemetery
- Hueytown Historical Society’s Cemeteries of western Jefferson County, southeastern Walker County, Alabama, and northeastern Tuscaloosa County,
- Huntsville, Huntsville Park Cemetery Records
- Huntsville, Sexton’s Records of Interments in the City Cemetery and Maple Hill Cemetery, 1867-1963
- Huntsville, The names of people buried in Maple Hill Cemetery that were not born in Huntsville, 1867-1918 :
- Jackson County Cemeteries
- Jackson County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Jackson County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Jackson County Cemeteries and Records
- Jackson County Cemetery Records
- Jackson County, Records
- Jefferson County Cemeteries
- Jefferson County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Jefferson County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Jefferson County Cemeteries and Records
- Jefferson County Cemetery Records
- Jefferson County, A partial Inventory of Cemeteries
- Jefferson County, Cemetery Records
- Lamar County Cemeteries
- Lamar County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Lamar County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Lamar County Cemeteries and Records
- Lamar County Cemetery Records
- Lauderdale County Cemeteries
- Lauderdale County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Lauderdale County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Lauderdale County Cemeteries and Records
- Lauderdale County Cemetery Records
- Lauderdale County, A History of 54 Cemeteries of the County
- Lauderdale County, Cemetery Records
- Lauderdale County, Marriage, Cemetery and Family Records
- Lauderdale County, Hough Cemetery, 1799-1968
- Lauderdale County. Coffee Cemetery
- Lawrence County Burial Records
- Lawrence County Cemeteries
- Lawrence County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Lawrence County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Lawrence County Cemeteries and Records
- Lawrence County Cemetery Records
- Lawrence County, Cemeteries in the Bankhead Forest
- Lawrence, Cemeteries of and around Mt. Hope
- Lee County Cemeteries
- Lee County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Lee County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Lee County Cemeteries and Records
- Lee County Cemetery Records
- Limestone County Cemeteries
- Limestone County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Limestone County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Limestone County Cemeteries and Records
- Limestone County Cemetery Records
- Limestone County, Cemeteries
- Lipscomb, Jefferson County, Union Baptist Church Cemetery Inscriptions
- Lowndes County Cemeteries
- Lowndes County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Lowndes County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Lowndes County Cemeteries and Records
- Lowndes County Cemetery Records
- Lowndes County, Cemetery Records
- Lowndes County, Cemetery Records and Marriage Records of 1871-1879
- Macon County Cemeteries
- Macon County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Macon County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Macon County Cemeteries and Records
- Macon County Cemetery Records
- Macon County, Calebee Presbyterian Church and McKenize’s Cemeteries, 1801-1996
- Macon County, Cemeteries
- Macon County, Cubahatchee Baptist Church Cemetery, 1780-1995
- Macon County, Tuskegee City and other Cemeteries, 1808-1989
- Madison County Cemeteries
- Madison County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Madison County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Madison County Cemeteries and Records
- Madison County Cemetery Records
- Madison, Madison Cemetery Records
- Marengo County Cemeteries
- Marengo County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Marengo County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Marengo County Cemetery Records
- Marengo County, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Marion County Cemeteries
- Marion County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Marion County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Marion County Cemeteries and Records
- Marion County Cemetery Records
- Marshall County Cemeteries
- Marshall County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Marshall County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Marshall County Cemeteries and Records
- Marshall County Cemetery Records
- Marshall County, Guntersville Reservoir Cemeteries
- Marshall County. Guntersville Reservoir Cemeteries
- McKenzie, Bushfield Cemetery
- Mobile County Cemeteries
- Mobile County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Mobile County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Mobile County Cemeteries and Records
- Mobile County Cemetery Records
- Mobile County, Burial Records
- Mobile, A History of Church Street Graveyard
- Mobile, Friends of Magnolia Cemetery, Funeral Books, 1911-1965
- Mobile, Magnolia Cemetery Interment cards, 1836-1995
- Mobile, Magnolia Cemetery, Records from Gravestones, 1828 to 1971
- Mobile, Magnolia Cemetery, Funeral Books, 1933-1965
- Mobile, Alpha Interment Index cards, 1836-1995
- Mobile, Old Whistler Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions, 1828-1970
- Mobile, Registers of Burials, 1912-1996
- Monroe County Cemeteries
- Monroe County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Monroe County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Monroe County Cemeteries and Records
- Monroe County Cemetery Records
- Montgomery County Cemeteries
- Montgomery County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Montgomery County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Montgomery County Cemeteries and Records
- Montgomery County Cemetery Records
- Montgomery County, Oakwood Cemetery Records
- Montgomery, Index for Lincoln Cemetery
- Morgan County Cemeteries
- Morgan County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Morgan County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Morgan County Cemeteries and Records
- Morgan County Cemetery Records
- Morgan County, Mt. Tabor Methodist Church and Cemetery
- Perry County Cemeteries
- Perry County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Perry County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Perry County Cemeteries and Records
- Perry County Cemetery Records
- Perry County, Cemetery Inscriptions from
- Phenix City, Russell County, Pine Grove Cemetery Records
- Pickens County Cemeteries
- Pickens County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Pickens County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Pickens County Cemeteries and Records
- Pickens County Cemetery Records
- Pickens County, Records
- Pickwick Landing Reservoir Cemeteries
- Pike County Cemeteries
- Pike County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Pike County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Pike County Cemeteries and Records
- Pike County Cemetery Records
- Pike County, Cemetery Records
- Pike County, Papers of the Pike County Historical Society
- Prairieville, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Randolph County Cemeteries
- Randolph County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Randolph County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Randolph County Cemetery Records
- Randolph County, Maps to Cemeteries
- Russell County Cemeteries
- Russell County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Russell County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Russell County Cemetery Records
- Ruthledge Springs, Bethlehem Methodist Cemetery Inscriptions
- Saint Clair County Cemeteries
- Saint Clair County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Saint Clair County Cemetery Records
- Shelby County Cemeteries
- Shelby County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Shelby County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Shelby County Cemeteries and Records
- Shelby County Cemetery Records
- Clair County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Sumter County Cemeteries
- Sumter County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Sumter County Cemeteries – Interment.net
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- Sumter County Cemetery Records
- Talladega County Cemeteries
- Talladega County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Talladega County Cemeteries – Interment.net
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- Tallapoosa County Cemeteries
- Tallapoosa County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Tallapoosa County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Tallapoosa County Cemeteries and Records
- Tallapoosa County Cemetery Records
- Tallapoosa County, Darian Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Records, 1819-1967
- Tuscaloosa County Cemeteries
- Tuscaloosa County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Tuscaloosa County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Tuscaloosa County Cemeteries and Records
- Tuscaloosa County Cemetery Records
- Union Springs, Old Confederate Cemetery
- Walker County Cemeteries
- Walker County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Walker County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Walker County Cemeteries and Records
- Walker County Cemetery Records
- Washington County Cemeteries
- Washington County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Washington County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Washington County Cemetery Records
- Wheeler Reservoir Cemeteries
- Wilcox County Cemeteries
- Wilcox County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Wilcox County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Wilcox County Cemeteries and Records
- Wilcox County Cemetery Records
- Winston County Cemeteries
- Winston County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Winston County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Winston County Cemeteries and Records
- Winston County Cemetery Records
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