(This page's most recent update is November 2024)
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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
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 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 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.
Rhode Island 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
Rhode Island
- Barrington, Historical Cemeteries
- Block Island, Cemetery Records
- Block Island, Old Epitaphs in the Burying Ground
- Block Island, Washington County, Inscriptions
- Bristol County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Bristol County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Bristol County, Cemeteries and Records
- Bristol County, Cemetery Index
- Bristol County, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Bristol, Cemeteries: 1689-1865
- Cranston, Saint Ann Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Exeter, Historical Cemeteries
- Exeter, Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery – Billion Graves
- God’s Little Acre, Colonial Cemetery
- Hope Valley, Pine Grove Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Johnston, Cemeteries
- Johnston, Highland Memorial Park Cemetery, Burial Search
- Kent County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Kent County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Kent County Rhode Island Cemetery Records
- Kent County, Cemetery Index
- Kent County, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Kent County, Tombstone Transcriptions
- Lincoln, Cemeteries
- Little Compton, Newport County, Cemeteries Index
- Little Compton, Newport County, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Middletown, Newport County, Middletown / Four Corners Cemetery
- Middletown, Saint Columbia Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Newport County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Newport County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Newport County, Cemeteries and Records
- Newport County, Cemetery Index
- Newport County, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Newport County, Tombstone Transcriptions
- Newport, Island Cemetery – Billion Graves
- North Kingstown & Wickford, Washington County, Inscriptions
- North Kingstown, Elm Grove Cemetery – Billion Graves
- North Kingstown, Historical Cemeteries
- North Providence, Cemeteries
- North Smithfield, Historical Cemeteries
- Providence County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Providence County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Providence County, Cemeteries and Records
- Providence County, Cemetery Index
- Providence County, Providence, Swan Point Cemetery Records, ca.1846-ca.1950
- Providence County, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Providence County, Tombstone Transcriptions
- Providence, Congregation Sons of Israel and David, Burials in Reservoir Avenue Cemetery, 1859-1950
- Providence, Locust Grove Cemetery
- Providence, Roman Catholic Diocese, Cemeteries, Burial Search
- Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries
- Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project
- Rhode Island, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Rhode Island, Jewish Cemeteries
- Richmond, White Brook Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Richmond, Wood River Cemetery – Billion Graves
- South Kingstown, Cemeteries
- South Kingstown, New Fernwood Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Washington County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Washington County, Cemeteries and Records
- Washington County, Cemetery Index
- Washington County, Tombstone Transcription Project
- Washington County, Tombstone Transcriptions
- West Greenwich, Saint Joseph Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Westerly, River Bend Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Westerly, Saint Sebastian Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Westerly, Washington County, Cemetery Listings
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!