(This page's most recent update is March 2025)
Cemetery records and cemeteries, in general, are a very large part of our family history and is 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
Note: Some 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 to the right of the name (in the Format column), then the collection’s 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 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.
Alaska Cemetery Records
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
Alaska
- Alaska, Cemetery Records
- Aleutians East Borough – Find a Grave
- Aleutians East Borough, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Aleutians East, Cemeteries and Records
- Aleutians West Census Area – Find a Grave
- Aleutians West Census Area, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Aleutians West, Cemeteries and Records
- Anchorage – Interment.net
- Anchorage Borough – Find a Grave
- Anchorage Borough, Cemetery Records
- Anchorage Borough, Cemetery Records
- Anchorage, Angelus Cemetery, Burial Search
- Anchorage, Cemeteries and Records
- Anchorage, Cemetery Records
- Anchorage, The Cemetery Book – an Indexed Compilation of People Interred in Cemeteries
- Anchorage, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Bethel & Kusilvak (fka Wade Hampton) Census Areas, Cemetery Records
- Bethel Census Area – Find a Grave
- Bethel, Cemeteries and Records
- Bethel, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Bristol Bay Borough – Find a Grave
- Bristol Bay Borough& Dillingham Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Bristol Bay, Cemeteries and Records
- Bristol Bay, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Chicken, Steel Creek, Franklin Burial Removal Permits, 1922-1933
- Cordova Burial Removal Records, 1915-1961
- Denali (fka Mount McKinley) Borough, Cemetery Records
- Denali Borough – Find a Grave
- Denali Borough, Cemeteries
- Denali Borough, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Denali, Cemeteries and Records
- Dillingham Census Area – Find a Grave
- Dillingham Census Area, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Dillingham, Cemeteries and Records
- East Aleutian Islands Borough & West Aleutian Islands Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Fairbanks North Star – Interment.net
- Fairbanks North Star Borough – Find a Grave
- Fairbanks North Star Borough & SE Fairbanks Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Fairbanks North Star Borough & Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Cemeteries
- Fairbanks North Star, Cemeteries and Records
- Fairbanks North Star, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Haines Borough – Find a Grave
- Haines Borough, Cemeteries
- Haines Borough, Cemetery Records
- Haines, Cemeteries and Records
- Haines, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area – Find a Grave
- Hoonah-Angoon, Cemeteries and Records
- Juneau – Interment.net
- Juneau Borough – Find a Grave
- Juneau Borough and City, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Juneau Borough, Cemetery Records
- Juneau, Cemeteries and Records
- Juneau, Evergreen Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Juneau, Evergreen Cemetery, Burial Search
- Kenai Peninsula – Interment.net
- Kenai Peninsula Borough – Find a Grave
- Kenai Peninsula Borough, Cemeteries
- Kenai Peninsula Borough, Cemetery Records
- Kenai Peninsula Borough, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Kenai Peninsula, Cemeteries and Records
- Ketchikan Gateway – Interment.net
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough – Find a Grave
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough & Prince of Wales – Hyder Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Ketchikan Gateway, Cemeteries and Records
- Ketchikan Gateway, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Ketchikan, Bayview Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Ketchikan, Bayview Cemetery, Burial Search
- Kodiak Island Borough – Find a Grave
- Kodiak Island Borough, Cemetery Records
- Kodiak Island Borough, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Kodiak Island, Cemeteries and Records
- Kusilvak (Formerly Wade Hampton), Cemeteries and Records
- Kusilvak Census Area – Find a Grave
- Lake and Peninsula Borough – Find a Grave
- Lake and Peninsula Borough, Cemetery Records
- Lake and Peninsula Borough, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Lake and Peninsula, Cemeteries and Records
- Matanuska – Susitna Borough, Cemetery Records
- Matanuska-Susitna – Interment.net
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough – Find a Grave
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Cemeteries
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Matanuska-Susitna, Cemeteries and Records
- Nome Census Area – Find a Grave
- Nome Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Nome, Cemeteries and Records
- Nome, Tombstone Transcription Project
- North Slope Borough – Find a Grave
- North Slope Borough, Cemetery Records
- North Slope Borough, Tombstone Transcription Project
- North Slope, Cemeteries and Records
- Northwest Arctic Borough – Find a Grave
- Northwest Arctic Borough, Cemetery Records
- Northwest Arctic Borough, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Northwest Arctic, Cemeteries and Records
- Petersburg Borough – Find a Grave
- Petersburg, Cemeteries and Records
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area – Find a Grave
- Prince of Wales-Hyder, Cemeteries and Records
- Prince Of Wales-Outer Ketchikan, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Sitka – Interment.net
- Sitka Borough – Find a Grave
- Sitka Borough & City, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Sitka Borough, Cemeteries
- Sitka Borough, Cemetery Records
- Sitka, Cemeteries and Records
- Sitka, National Cemetery Records
- Sitka, Sitka National Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Skagway Borough – Find a Grave
- Skagway Borough & Hoonah – Angoon Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Skagway Hoonah Angoon, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Skagway, Cemeteries and Records
- Skagway, Cemetery Records from Small Cemetery
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area – Find a Grave
- Southeast Fairbanks, Cemeteries and Records
- Southeast Fairbanks, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Valdez – Cordova Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Valdez Cordova, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Valdez-Cordova Census Area – Find a Grave
- Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Cemeteries
- Valdez-Cordova, Cemeteries and Records
- Wasilla Aurora Cemetery, Search
- Wasilla, Wasilla Aurora Cemetery, Burial Records
- Wrangell & Petersburgh Boroughs, Cemetery Records
- Wrangell Borough – Find a Grave
- Wrangell Petersburg, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Wrangell, Cemeteries and Records
- Yakutat Borough – Find a Grave
- Yakutat Borough, Cemetery Records
- Yakutat, Cemeteries and Records
- Yakutat, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Yukon – Koyukuk Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Yukon Koyukuk, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area – Find a Grave
- Yukon-Koyukuk, Cemeteries and Records
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!