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
I have not performed separate searches from Find a Grave, Billion Graves, or Interment.net by county or individual cemetery as that would be time prohibitive. Those sites are very useful, and you might find references to them from sub-collection links.
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.
- Carson City, Cemeteries
- Carson City, Lone Mounain Cemetery, Burial Search
- Carson/Ornsby County, Cemetery Indexes
- Churchill County, Cemeteries and Records
- Churchill County, Cemetery Indexes
- Churchill County, Records
- Clark County, Cemeteries and Records
- Clark County, Cemetery Indexes
- Clark County, Records
- Clark County, Stewart Ranch Burial Records, 1905-1930
- Clover Valley, Elko County, Tombstone Inscriptions
- Douglas County, Cemeteries
- Douglas County, Records
- Elko County, Cemeteries
- Elko County, Cemeteries and Records
- Elko County, Cemetery Indexes
- Elko County, Records, 1863-1938
- Ely, White Pine County, Cemetery Records
- Esmeralda County, Cemeteries and Records
- Esmeralda County, Cemetery Indexes
- Esmeralda County, Records
- Eureka County, Cemeteries
- Eureka County, Cemetery Indexes
- Eureka County, Records, 1864-1983
- Genoa, Douglas County, Nevada, Cemetery Census taken 1964
- Hillside Cemetery Reno, Washoe County, Burials extracted from Mortuary Records and from Original Burial Records
- Humboldt County, Cemeteries
- Humboldt County, Cemetery Indexes
- Humboldt County, Records, 1861-1983
- Lander County, Cemeteries
- Lander County, Cemetery Indexes
- Lander County, Records, 1886-1983
- Lincoln County, Cemetery Indexes
- Lincoln County, Records, 1871-1978
- Lyon County, Cemeteries
- Lyon County, Cemeteries and Records
- Lyon County, Cemetery Indexes
- Lyon County, Miscellaneous Records
- Lyon County, Records
- Mesquite, Cemetery Records, 1900-1948
- Mineral County, Cemeteries
- Mineral County, Cemetery Indexes
- Mineral County, Records
- Montello, Elko County, Cemetery Records
- Nevada, Bible and Cemetery Records
- Nevada, Cemetery inscriptions
- Nevada, Cemetery Records
- Nevada, Cemetery Records
- Nevada, Cemetery Records, Censuses taken 1963-1968
- Nevada, Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions
- Nevada, Jewish Cemeteries and Records
- Nye County, Cemeteries
- Nye County, Cemetery Indexes
- Nye County, Records
- Orsmby County, Records
- Overton, Cemetery
- Pahrump, Chief Tecopa Cemetery
- Pahrump, Family Mortuary & Grandview Cemetery
- Pershing County, Big Meadow Cemetery, Burials
- Pershing County, Cemeteries
- Pershing County, Cemeteries and Records
- Pershing County, Cemetery Indexes
- Pershing County, Lone Mountain Cemetery, Burials
- Pershing County, Records, 1922-1975
- Storey County, Cemeteries
- Storey County, Cemetery Indexes
- Storey County, Records
- Virginia City, Storey County, Cemetery Census taken 1963
- Virginia City, Gold Hill Cemetery Record Book, 1863-1884
- Washoe County, Cemeteries
- Washoe County, Cemeteries and Records
- Washoe County, Cemetery Indexes
- Washoe County, Church and Cemetery Records
- Washoe County, Records
- Washoe County, Washoe City Cemetery
- Wells, Elko County, Starr Valley Cemetery Records
- White Pine County, Cemeteries
- White Pine County, Cemeteries and Records
- White Pine County, Cemetery Indexes
- White Pine County, Records
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
For other Free Nevada Links, click on the category of interest:
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Church Records
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