Can anybody tell me how i can locate a grave in a cemetery? and can this be done on-line?

Question

Can anybody tell me how i can locate a grave in a cemetery? and can this be done on-line?

Answer 1

The church will have records

Answer 2

If this is a veterans cemetery, you should be able to get a location for the grave.  If you go there in person, there should be a computer that will print out a map for you.

Some of the very large or historically important  cemeteries also have grave sites on line.

Smaller ones may not, but you can call for locations.

All the national cemeteries have headstones, but some graves have no headstones in other cemeteries.  You can still find the spot, though.

Have you looked at findagrave.com?  There are quite a few listed there.

Answer 3

IF someone walked the cemetary and transcribed it, the records will usually be in one of three places:

http://www.findagrave.com

http://www.internment.net

http://www.usgenweb.org or http://www.worldgenweb.org

At the GenWeb sites, you can keep clicking to get to a specific state/province and then county. Cemetary readings are usually at the county websites.

Answer 4

That depends on who, where and when.

Answer 5

You have not included a country.. so it is hard to say yes/no.  I personally think findagrave.com is very limited.

It MIGHT be findable online, and it may not.  Many cemeteries are transcribed, but many are not. SOME old old cemeteries do not have records anywhere, except the tombstone.

If you do know the name of the cemetery itself.. then the trick is seeing if someone does have records. If it is a reasonable sized cemetery, and you have the town.. google one of the mortuaries, and see what they say. THEY will know who has any existing records.  

Answer 6

UK answer.

Here in the UK a lot of the family history societies have started to transcribe these old cemeteries and put the information onto Cd's. I took part in one of these days when volunteers set out to transcribe as much information as possible. There is nothing on line as far as I know but if you could give the name of the cemetery and district/ town/ city, I am sure I can find something to help you on this one.. I think www.findagrave.com is only useful for finding the graves of celebrities here in the UK.

Hope this helps.

Edit.

Have a look at this website for genealogy supplies,

http://www.genealogysupplies.com/

they have this kind of information, and I have posted the link to the Notts Family History Society of which I am a member,

http://www.nottsfhs.org.uk/society/event...

http://www.nottsfhs.org.uk/

There is also a link to a register of  family history societies for England.

http://www.mick-gray.co.uk/family_histor...

Answer 7

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default....

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/

http://www.ancestorhunt.com/united_kingd...

http://www.oz.net/~markhow/acronym-uk.ht...

http://www.familyhistory.uk.com/

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/genesreun...

Answer 8

Contact the cemetary you are going to - they are the best people to ask. They will have records of everybody buried there - and where they are buried.