
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 July 2023)
Vermont 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
Vermont
- Addison County Cemeteries
- Addison County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Addison County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Addison County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Addison County Cemetery Records
- Addison County, VT Cemeteries (by Town)
- Alburg, Records of Deaths, taken from Cemeteries not Reported previous to 1870,
- Arlington, Gravestone Record
- Barnard, Cemetery Records, 1785-1906
- Barnet, Burials as of Aug. 18, 2000
- Beartown (VT) Cemetery, Burial Index
- Bennington Center, Inscriptions from the Burying Ground of the First Church of Christ
- Bennington County Cemeteries
- Bennington County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Bennington County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Bennington County Cemeteries and Records
- Bennington County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Bennington County Cemetery Records
- Bennington County, VT Cemeteries (by Town):
- Bennington, Bennington County, Park lawn Cemetery Records,
- Bennington, Cemeteries and Burial Information
- Bennington, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Bennington. Cemetery
- Berlin, Cemeteries, Burial Index
- Bethel, Cemetery Records, 1792-1919 approx.
- Bradford, Old North Portion Bradford Cemetery
- Braintree, Cemetery Maps
- Braintree, Cemetery Deeds, 1922-1977
- Brattleboro, Record of Deaths made from monuments in the different Cemeteries in the Town of that Died before 1857
- Bridgewater, Cemeteries
- Bridgewater, Cemeteries Burial Indexes
- Bristol, Cemetery Records, 1801-1905
- Brookline, Index to Cemetery lots, 1794-1869
- Burke, Burial Permits, 1905-1919
- Burke, Cemetery Records, 1805-1879
- Burlington, Cemeteries, Supplementary Record of Deaths prior to 1870, taken from tombstones
- Cabot, Cemetery Records, Inscriptions prior to 1870
- Calais, Records obtained from Inscriptions upon headstones in the Cemeteries, to 1870
- Caledonia County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Caledonia County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Caledonia County, VT Cemeteries (by Town):
- Camden Valley, Bennington County VT – West Cemetery, Sandgate Cemetery and Burial Index
- Castleton (VT) Cemetery Inscriptions
- Castleton, Epitaphs
- Cavendish, Records of Mount Union Society, 1842-1884
- Chester, Deeds to Cemetery lots, 1869-1924
- Chittenden County Cemeteries
- Chittenden County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Chittenden County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Chittenden County Cemeteries and Records
- Chittenden County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Concord, Cemetery Records, 1790-1869
- Danville, Cemetery Records
- Dover, Windham County, Cemetery Records to 1865
- Dummerston, Cemetery Inscriptions, 1782-1869
- East Montpelier, Inventory of Gravestones, 1794-1973
- Elmore, Cemetery Records, 1803-1888
- Enosburg, Cemetery Records, Early to 1870
- Essex County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Essex County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Essex County Cemetery Records
- Essex County, VT Cemeteries (by Town):
- Essex Junction,, Cemetery Records, 1792-1870
- Fair Haven (VT) Village Cemetery, Burial Index
- Fairfax, Cemeteries and Burial Listings
- Fairfield, Franklin County, Cemeteries, Pre-1851 Stones
- Fairfield, Cemetery Association Records, 1921-1978
- Fairview Cemetery, Alphabetical Listing of Graves
- Franklin County Cemeteries
- Franklin County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Franklin County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Franklin County Cemeteries and Records
- Franklin County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Franklin County, VT Cemeteries (by Town)
- Georgia, Cemetery Records
- Glover, Plan of Westlook Cemetery
- Glover, Cemetery Deeds, 1903-1953
- Granby, Death Records and Burial Permits, 1972-1988
- Grand Isle County Cemeteries
- Grand Isle County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Grand Isle County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Grand Isle County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Greensboro, Cemetery Records
- Guildhall, Essex County, Cemeteries
- Hartford Area Cemeteries, Burial Indexes
- Hartland, Cemeteries and Burial Indexes
- Hyde Park, Cemetery Records, 1800-1890 approx
- Ira, Cemetery Record before 1870
- Irasburg, Cemetery Records, to 1870
- Johnson, Cemetery Records, 1800-1880
- Kirby, Cemetery Records, 1813-1882
- Lamoille County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Lamoille County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Lamoille County Cemeteries and Records
- Lamoille County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Lyndon, Town Cemetery, Record of Interments
- Lyndon, Burial Permits,1908-1916
- Lyndon, Cemetery Records, 1793-1869
- Manchester Center, Dellwood Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Marshfield, Cemetery Records, 1804-1869
- Middlebury, Cemetery Records
- Middlesex, Card File of Cemetery lots, 1785-1870
- Milton, Saint Ann Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Montpelier, Green Mount Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Morgan, Orleans County, Early Records
- Morristown, Record of Deaths prior to 1870, taken from Gravestones in the Cemeteries
- Mount Tabor, Cemetery Records, 1792-1854
- North Shrewsbury, Cemetery Map, 1959
- Northfield, Cemetery plans, with Names and lot Numbers, 1840-1892
- Orange County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Orange County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Orange County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Orange County, VT Cemeteries (by Town):
- Orange, Cemetery Records, 1736-1879
- Orleans County Cemeteries
- Orleans County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Orleans County Cemeteries and Records
- Orleans County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Orleans, Deeds to Cemetery lots, 1907-1973
- Pawlet, Gravestone Inscription Records, 1776-1907
- Plymouth, Cemetery Records, Deaths prior to 1870
- Pomfret, Cemetery Records, 1829-1972
- Pownal, Cemeteries
- Randolph, Pleasant View Cemetery – Billion Graves
- Richmond, Cemetery Deeds, 1871-1977
- Richmond, List of Cemetery Records for Period prior to 1870
- Roxbury, Cemetery Records, Early to 1870
- Rupert, Bennington County, Gravestone Inscriptions
- Rutland County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Rutland County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Rutland County Cemeteries and Records
- Rutland County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Rutland County, Cemetery Grave Cards and Index
- Rutland County, VT Cemeteries (by Town):
- Rutland County, Gravestone Inscriptions
- Ryegate, Cemetery Records, Early to 1870
- Searsburg, Cemetery Records, 1832- 1869
- Sharon, Cemetery Records
- Shrewsbury, Deaths prior to 1870, Buried in different Cemeteries in the Town
- Shrewsbury, Records, 1847-1958
- South Hero, Cemetery Records, Early to 1870
- Springfield, Windsor County, Sumner Cemetery
- Stockbridge, Burials to the Year of 1919
- Stowe, Cemetery Records, 1798-1869
- Stratton, Cemetery Records, 1795-1872
- Sutton, Cemetery Records, to 1870
- Tinmouth, Cemetery Records, 1769-1875
- Underhill, Cemetery Records, Early to 1870
- Vermont, Cemetery Inscriptions
- Vermont, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1600-1995
- Vermont, Deaths and Burials, 1871-1965
- Vermont, Jewish Cemeteries
- Vermont, Northeast Kingdom Cemeteries and Interments (by County)
- Wardsboro, Cemetery Records 1790-1870
- Wardsboro, Duncan Cemetery
- Wardsboro, East Hill Cemetery
- Wardsboro, Smead Cemetery
- Wardsboro, Cemetery Records, 1793-1869
- Washington County Cemeteries
- Washington County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Washington County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Washington County Cemeteries and Records
- Washington County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Washington County, VT Cemeteries (by Town):
- Waterbury, Cemetery Records, 1621-1869, 1877
- Waterford, Cemetery Records, 1797-1869
- Whitingham, Cemetery Records, 1791-1895
- Windham County Cemeteries
- Windham County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Windham County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Windham County Cemeteries and Records
- Windham County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Windham County, Cemetery Inscriptions from the Towns of Wardsboro, Stratton, Jamaica and Dover
- Windham County, VT Cemeteries (by Town):
- Windsor County Cemeteries – Find a Grave
- Windsor County Cemeteries – Interment.net
- Windsor County Cemeteries and Records
- Windsor County Cemeteries, Burials, and Photos
- Windsor County Cemetery Records
- Windsor County, VT Cemeteries (by Town):
- Wolcott, Cemetery Records, Early to 1870
- Woodbury, Cemetery Records, 1817-1904
- Woodstock, Cemeteries
- Woodstock, Cemetery Index
- Woodstock, Cemetery Records, 1793-1947
- Woodstock, Cemetery Records, 1793-1947
- Worcester, Cemetery Records, 1825-1874
- Worcester, Index to Cemetery lots
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