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
- 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 July 2023)
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, Cemeteries and Records
- Aleutians West Census Area – Find a Grave
- 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
- Bethel & Kusilvak (fka Wade Hampton) Census Areas, Cemetery Records
- Bethel Census Area – Find a Grave
- Bethel, Cemeteries and Records
- Bristol Bay Borough – Find a Grave
- Bristol Bay Borough& Dillingham Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Bristol Bay, Cemeteries and Records
- 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, Cemeteries and Records
- Dillingham Census Area – Find a Grave
- 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
- Haines Borough – Find a Grave
- Haines Borough, Cemeteries
- Haines Borough, Cemetery Records
- Haines, Cemeteries and Records
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area – Find a Grave
- Hoonah-Angoon, Cemeteries and Records
- Juneau – Interment.net
- Juneau Borough – Find a Grave
- 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, 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, Bayview Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Ketchikan, Bayview Cemetery, Burial Search
- Kodiak Island Borough – Find a Grave
- Kodiak Island Borough, Cemetery Records
- 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, Cemeteries and Records
- Matanuska – Susitna Borough, Cemetery Records
- Matanuska-Susitna – Interment.net
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough – Find a Grave
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Cemeteries
- Matanuska-Susitna, Cemeteries and Records
- Nome Census Area – Find a Grave
- Nome Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Nome, Cemeteries and Records
- North Slope Borough – Find a Grave
- North Slope Borough, Cemetery Records
- North Slope, Cemeteries and Records
- Northwest Arctic Borough – Find a Grave
- Northwest Arctic Borough, Cemetery Records
- 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
- Sitka – Interment.net
- Sitka Borough – Find a Grave
- 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, Cemeteries and Records
- Skagway, Cemetery Records from small Cemetery
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area – Find a Grave
- Southeast Fairbanks, Cemeteries and Records
- Valdez – Cordova Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Valdez-Cordova Census Area – Find a Grave
- Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Cemeteries
- Valdez-Cordova, Cemeteries and Records
- Wasilla Aurora Cemetery, Search
- Wrangell & Petersburgh Boroughs, Cemetery Records
- Wrangell Borough – Find a Grave
- Wrangell, Cemeteries and Records
- Yakutat Borough – Find a Grave
- Yakutat Borough, Cemetery Records
- Yakutat, Cemeteries and Records
- Yukon – Koyukuk Census Area, Cemetery Records
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area – Find a Grave
- Yukon-Koyukuk, Cemeteries and Records
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