Is it possible to find out where someone is buried...?

Question

if I have all the information of when and where they died, but not where they are buried.

Answer 1

im sure you can, if you contact that local council.

is there no relatives you can contact first?

Answer 2

Unless you put it in your question, we can't tell what country you are in. It is the most frustrating thing Yahoo does. It doesn't matter if you go into domestic Yahoo or one of the International Yahoos - UK, Australia, Canada, India . . . - all of the questions in English go into one big "pot".

That's why some answers talk about the District and some don't. Half of these answers are going to be useless to you depending on where you live; the USA ones if you live in the UK, and vice versa You'd keep people from wasting their time if you'd put a country (better yet, a country and state / province / shire) in your question.

I second (third?) the suggestion for findagrave.com but warn you it is primarily for the USA.

The death certificate should have the final resting place no matter what country; the English are odd, but not completely foreign.

If you can find the obituary, it will usually mention where the grave is (or will be).

http://www.tedpack.org/obit.html

has four ways to find an obit. All four are for the USA, although three may work in Canada or the UK.

Answer 3

Most are buried in the Area where they lived when they died

Cemetery authority's have a duty to keep records of the grave sites, a quick phone call to the local town council should set you on the way to finding out

Answer 4

Additional to the e-sites, all the UK County Family History Societies have M.I. (Memorial Inscriptions) projects, either on-going or completed and usually one Committee Member responsible for the Register.  Contact the relevant FHS for more details.

I found one family grave in Birmingham, simply by phoning the Cemetery office for the burial ground nearest to where the relative lived and they were able to tell me not only the location of the grave, but more importantly, the name of the person who had purchased the plot which found me a whole new branch of the family.

Answer 5

i think you can, but i'm not sure how, sorry.

Answer 6

Try www.findagrave.com

Answer 7

There a couple ways the internet may help.  One was shared already, it was findagrave  and at http://www.findagrave.com/ and here is another  http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/

the social security death record and burial information is free,

If they were a vet try

http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/serv...

Sometimes googling the person's name can help.

These are just a couple places to help if none of your relatives can help you out.

Best of luck in your search ~ I still haven't found a great grandmother's grave site yet.

Answer 8

If you know when and where they died, the next step is to obtain a copy of their death certificate; in the US, and probably in other countries, the place and date of burial is listed.

You can probably order copy of the death certificate online (if not, by mail) from the state in which s/he died. CyndisList (http://www.cyndislist.com/usvital.htm) will help you find out how.

Answer 9

When did this person decease? Depending on that, a death certificate almost always lists the place of burial.  Keep in mind a death certif. is only as good as the person who provided the information, as far as DOB, parental info, etc. But accurate place of burial on a death certif. has been a legal requirement  from muni health codes for over  a century. Almost every state now has an online death index Some are more user friendly than others. Somer include more years than others. For instance, I found my ancestors form Ohio on a very good Ohio State death index that incldues the years 1908-1944.   Good luck

Answer 10

I'm pretty sure there is a way, but I'm not sure how.  Logs are kept of anyone buried...so long as there not to old.  Contact your local government for information, they should be able to direct you to the correct place.  I can't remember the name of the place that deals with this stuff :|

Answer 11

Only if you have a shovel, a strong back and lots of patience.

Answer 12

You can visit the local cemetries and ask to go through parish records. I recently found out I had a sister who died as a baby and I found her grave by this method.

Good luck, hope it helped